Word: foregrounding
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...Ager said when Citizen Kane opened, "It's as though you had never seen a movie before." Colors and textures are richly, plausibly vibrant, with an astonishing depth of field; all those Fordian shots of the Plains as seen from a ranch-house door lend equal clarity to the foreground and the far horizon. Blu-ray gives a 3-D impression, as if the figures in a scene were in your room; you could almost walk among and touch them. The sensation is the same with old black-and-white films like The Third Man, where the Vienna streets gleam...
...photo creates a narrative of its own. One particularly beautiful photo shows the band refusing to be confined by the turmoil and decay of its environment: there are dilapidated railroad buildings in the background and cloudy skies above, but the Clash will not be dismayed. They stand in the foreground, smiling, smirking, and staring down the camera. Another photo captures the band’s hostility toward authority: the album artwork features crosshairs fixed on a Confederate general commanding his men to charge. But there are just too many narratives. The visual element of “The Clash?...
...think they're being raised in a way that is consistent with my beliefs of a good life," then trouble can ensue, says Apter. "Each family has its own set of norms that usually fade into the background of their lives but tend to come to the foreground when two families merge...
...lower depths, populated with hookers and victims, sometimes ending in death. Those elements are here, mostly personified in Harvey's troubled lover Jack Lira (Diego Luna), as are Van Sant's old camera tropes of slo-mo and unsteady focus. But they aren't at the foreground, In the dichotomy between his audience-pleasing big movies (To Die For, Good Will Hunting) and his audience-resistant art films (Gerry, Elephant, Last Days, Paranoid Park), Milk is securely in the former category. It's his most disciplined film - he was hired to direct Black's script, stuck to it, worked well...
...man’s life can be captured in a narrative. But Kehlmann misses something as he attempts to deconstruct the notion of writing a complete biography; he fails to offer a satisfying alternative in its place. Rather, with the unfinished biography lingering in the novel’s foreground, the reader finds fulfillment to be yet another task left incomplete...