Sentences with phrase «american archetypes»

Her portraits of all types of people — figures clad in leather, tattoos, and piercings, as well as surfers, high school football players, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered world — examine the way that American archetypes project their identities via self expression.

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«The Gang: Photographs by Catherine Opie» concentrates on portraits of the artist's friends from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer community; a selection of work that invaluably subverts American archetypes.

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And in this new series he uses many distinctly American archetypes.

holds up the men who pioneered the United States space program as ultimate American archetypes.

With a premise that would probably have worked better on a TV sitcom than as a major motion picture, The Cookout is a well - intentioned attempt to make a heartfelt family comedy showcasing the rich variety of African - American archetypes.

Will Ferrell's underprivileged but intelligent misfit can be read as representing illegal aliens and / or African American archetypes.

The combination of pent - up anger and the easy availability of a powerful, fast - firing rifle transformed a scrawny misfit named Nikolas Cruz into a murderous machine, one of a new American archetype: the mass school murderer.

On All Hallows night in Greenwich Village every American archetype, good and bad, seemed to be out promenading the sidewalks, from superheroes, vampires, clowns, ghouls, trolls, Freddie Krueger and Hannibal Lecter, Uncle Sam, Dorothy and the characters from The Wizard of Oz, all captured in the slo - mo revolving lights of police cars.

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But free will is an essential ingredient of the quintessential American hero archetype - the explorer, the pioneer - the lone individual who rises to the challenge and saves the day through skill, grit, and initiative - Cooper.

In the early 2000s, IVCF's then - national director of Asian American Ministries, Paul Tokunaga, had been reading Jim Collins's best - selling Good to Great, which describes the «Level 5 Leader» as an ideal archetype in «great» companies.

If, for our purposes, Cotton Mather can stand as a kind of archetype of Puritanism, with his very considerable impulsive energy kept in tight control and consecrated with meaning by its service to the divine plan, Benjamin Franklin may serve, as he has for so many others, as an archetype of the worldly American.

Leave it to the truly soulless medium of television to bring the zombie archetype full circle with CBS's Babylon Fields, an hour - long series the network describes as a «sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy - drama where the dead are rising and as a result, lives are regained, families restored, and old wounds reopened.»

With its ability to monitor cell function, PET is the archetype of the new tools that can monitor our bodies at the cellular or even subcellular scale, says Bruce Hillman of the American College of Radiology Image Metrix.

The research identified the top 20 personality archetypes, based on corresponding interests, of singles in 11 major American cities.

The first of these components is Walter Mosley's original novel which transplants traditional noir archetypes from a strictly urban environment to the African American middle - class.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

Costner is also the great American Gary Cooper hero archetype: tall, good - looking, dim - witted, and dull as dishwater — working almost exclusively in the realm of the sort of guileless red - blooded manifest determinism that loves mom, apple pie, horses, dogs, and guns.

The Best Picture winner of that year — one that heralded for many the ascendance of the «indie» and predicted, if one were cynical enough to predict such a gloriously retarded thing at the time, the major studios scampering to erect boutique «major - minis» and hence create their very own independent movies — was of course Sam Mendes's grimoire of suburban gothic archetypes, American Beauty.

So, while taking a much harder edge to the feel - good hug - an - Indian West of «Dances With Wolves,» «Hostiles» ultimately falls back on the same one - dimensional archetypes, depicting Native Americans either as ruthless savages or as stoic sages, with nothing in between.

American Splendor is very reminiscent of Ghost World, both in character archetypes and the graphics of the comic itself.

Public Enemies, for instance, takes the public conflict between Dillinger and Purvis — archetypes of American popular imagination — and connects it to the rise of surveillance, telecommunications, modern banking, and fascism, producing something that often feels like a creation myth for the latter part of the 20th century.

Each cast member has their own adolescent conflicts that are synonymous with the stereotypical take on American teen archetypes.

Along the way the baffled wayward couple comes into contact with friends and relatives, who together represent a cross-section of family archetypes; the middle - American casualty family (fat kids, crass parents), the New Age neo-hippy family (they make love in front of their child); the «adopted because they can't have their own kids» family (desperate, secretly unhappy); and the single - dad family (deterministic, anxiety - ridden).

The Rocketeer is too much in love with being American to suffer the idea that Old Glory didn't represent the wellspring of archetype in the modern age.

It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Walter Chaw Where zombies in American cinema seem to have risen with televangelism and its slow - moving white people promising salvation in the life of a sheep (in that sense, they're really just another iteration of the Body Snatcher archetype), in Italy they transmogrified, following the success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead there, into analogies for romance - gone - sour.

An array of independent comics writers and artists present a panoply of Native American folktales centering on the trickster archetype.

I rearrange the archetypes of sports into new patterns,» says American photographer Pelle Cass of his Crowded Fields series.

For me, the drive is the desire to see archetypes that I can relate to as a woman, as an American, and as a person of color.

Yet he has continued to critique American culture by reframing its archetypes, icons, and myths and challenging consumer advertising, fame seeking, and mainstream humor.

Instead of focusing on the likenesses of the presidential portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, Hyperallergic writes that «these pictures represent the former first couple both as individuals and as archetypes of African Americans.»

The exhibition grows out of Marshall's Rythm Mastr series, an expansive sequence of narrative works that tells a tale of urban life featuring superheroes inspired by African archetypes and African American cultural life.

At the height of his career, Pollock painted in a barn in Springs, New York, but he was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912 and grew up in Arizona and Chico, California, experiencing Native American cultural symbols, which may have influenced his work as glyphs and motifs, what Jung called archetypes, emerged during his Jungian analysis.

The archetype of the lone frontiersman has been used to rationalize the destructive excesses of American territorial expansion.

French - American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) incorporated archetypes and sexual themes into highly personal works and monumental sculptures of spiders.

Through characters drawn from American popular literature, culture and history, she exposes the myths that lie beneath cultural archetypes and the darker aspects of human behaviour.

George Sánchez - Calderón's winning public art project, entitled «Pax Americana,» draws inspiration from Bal Harbour Village's history, by reflecting upon the iconography that has collectively defined the archetype of «the American Dream.»

Einarsson also has an ongoing fascination with American history, conspiracy and myth, and often focuses on archetypes of authority and outlaws or outsiders in his work.

Danluck's work mines the rich territory of the American dream through the tropes of Hollywood and narrative archetypes.

While Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, and Reginald Marsh became much more famous than Motley for their American scenes, he also developed and elucidated his own archetypes of place and people in this country, albeit unapologetically based on African American subject matter.

In conceiving her work, indeed, Cornelia Parker was inspired by some very «cinematographic» archetypes, namely the paintings of Edward Hopper, the traditional American red barns, and the sinister house Alfred Hitchcock imagined as the perfect family abode for the disturbed character of Norman Bates in Psycho (1960), which was clearly inspired by Hopper's painting House by the Railroad (1925).

Avery's early work incorporated elements of Impressionism, but his smooth planes of color and combination of figuration and abstraction would make him an archetype of American Modernism, prefiguring aspects of Color Field painting by years.

[9] She also found influence in Native American and Mayan art, dreams, the cosmos and archetypes.

Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.