Sentence:  The cowboy films , the cops and robbers films , and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; these films and these sequences are also seeking out - instinctively or by design - the peculiarly cinematic elements of <WSD>narrative</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program