Sentences with phrase «american film canon»

Not exact matches

In Basterds, however, Tarantino was engaged with an exhaustive canon of World War II movies, from Casablanca to Schindler's List, while the subject of Django Unchained — slavery in the American South — is one that has been conspicuously absent in Hollywood films in the century since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.

19 November 2008 5:00 — 7:00 pm Ibrahim Theater, International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Changing the Canon: Self - Taught Artists Film Screening and Panel Discussion James Castle: Portrait of an Artist A film by Jeffrey Wolf Introduction by Molly Dougherty, Executive Director, Foundation for Self - Taught Artists Brendan Greaves, Folklorist, University of North Carolina John Ollman, Director, Fleisher - Ollman Gallery Ann Percy, Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art Jeffrey Wolf, Film Producer and Director Wendy Steiner (moderator), Founding Director, Penn Humanities Forum Born deaf, James Castle (1900 — 1977), a self - taught American artist who refused to read, write, or otherwise communicate except through art, used soot, saliva, and found materials such as ads and food wrappers for his creations.