Kathryn Bigelow wanted to film a Western movie that departed from cinematic convention.

There's an old-fashioned name for this set of cinematic conventions, and it's applicable even when the subject is career meltdown rather than star-crossed love.

He has pursued this goal via techniques which lay bare the cinematic convention.

Jarmusch here is experimenting with and calling the spectator's attention to cinematic conventions.

Like realist cinema and unlike modernist cinema, these films do not 'lay bare the device or call the viewer's attention to cinematic conventions.

Rather, what he's doing is enlarging his literary technique by forcing it to assimilate cinematic conventions and to approximate filmic style.

We are looking down a narrow Paris street at a nondescript house, fairly certain that cinematic convention will soon invite us inside.

But something more than a cinematic convention is at work in this mediocre thriller.

Using simple cinematic conventions, Portabella's documentary involves five former political prisoners gathered in a farmhouse to prepare dinner and discuss the problems with long prison terms.

The four photographic series in the show have links to South Asian cinematic conventions.