Marcus points out that, "Some critics found this picture book, with its nonnarrative, singsong text...bewilderingly offbeat and insubstantial".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

Commercial filmmaker Jon Kane joins the Diet Soap podcast this week to discuss his work with Godfrey Reggio on the nonnarrative film “Naqoyqatsi.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diet Soap Podcast #21: Life as Advertising] Reference

Note 5: In her research on Mpiemu communities in the Central African Republic, Tamara Giles-Vernick explores narrative and nonnarrative practices of recalling the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

The more challenging question about women's forms of remembering is how one interprets such narrative or nonnarrative relations historicallythat is, as claims about the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

This stifling pressure on women's public speech accounts for both the quality and the diversity of narrative and nonnarrative forms of older women's remembering in postwar Magude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Harmony Korine returns to Gummo territory in this handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a nonnarrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harmony Korine’s Next Feature Film, Trash Humpers, Already Finished | /Film] Reference

Like New Wave auteurs François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, who combined an enthusiasm for Hollywood with then-innovative techniques like jump cuts and nonnarrative sequencing, Audiard seeks to go beyond conventional filmmaking and happy endings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making New Waves] Reference

Neither source nor account, narrative nor text, tradition nor discourse adequately captures the idea of memories that women do not articulate as story or conveys the purposefully, indeed ineluctably social quality of switsundzuxo's narrative and nonnarrative forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Field boundaries scratched into the soil are an especially elusive nonnarrative way of remembering shared experience, and their impermanence and vulnerability to covert adjustment (especially in sandy soils) render them not only highly unstable as memories but also readily available as weapons of social exclusion in times of shortage or distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

If Kelly recuts this, takes out all the nonsense and releases it as an experimental, almost wordless, nonnarrative film (at, say, 90 minutes) it might become a rare and beautiful thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

With a few notable exceptions, all his work is experimental, though these seven lovely shorts, made between 1994 and 2003, are experimental in the classic sense of being painterly, musical, and nonnarrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

I was deeply struck by the idea that certain facts about our lives are only ever articulated in the form of fictional stories - stories whose plots are related only in the most complex and unapparent ways to the essentially nonnarrative concerns they express.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

If Tolstoy had wanted to say something about some nonnarrative issue - the "woman question," for example - he would surely have found a more straightforward way of doing it than by recounting the parallel love lives of Levin, a fictional gentleman farmer, and Anna, the sister-in-law of Levin's sister-in-law.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

But it is the case that fans of anime and manga concern themselves with very specific traits disconnected from any one character or story, and that creators both professional and amateur draw from an array of these traits - we can probably agree that the database exists, whether or not we grant its status as "grand nonnarrative" or replacement metanarrative (38).    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

The use of Berg’s music and the emotive yet nonnarrative choreography made this a landmark in modern dance works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Sokolow.] Reference

"The comparatively inexpensive nonnarrative films of James Broughton aside, a very special temperament is required to follow in Whitman's footsteps with the expenditure of millions of dollars hanging over your head and a flock of smiling executives pecking away at you as you're trying to get your movie in the can.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference