Sentences with phrase «american machismo»

- Richard Prince The enigmatically titled, Anyone Can Find Me, 1989 — 1990, one of Richard Prince's oblique, wall - hanging sculptural renditions of muscle car hoods, exudes a red - blooded American machismo made strange by its refined Minimalist aesthetic.

When the August 1949 issue of LIFE magazine rhetorically asked the American public whether Jackson Pollock was «the greatest living painter in the United States,» simple, all - American machismo was the hook, selling the American public on the idea that Abstract Expressionism embodied the triumph of the individual male spirit.

They were not, I suspect, prepared for a dark, cynical satire about American machismo and the country's absurd obsession with guns, violence, and, to put it bluntly, obtaining satisfaction off inflicting pain on others.

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Since the end of the postwar economic boom, new strategies have been used to stimulate consumption — especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity.

But the bony newcomer had a sweet, endearing nature, not a trace of machismo in him, so Reggie gave him a sweet, endearing nickname, an African - American one that meant little guy.

Not the subtlest director working in Hollywood, Michael Bay brings his surging machismo to this retelling of the notorious attack on an American compound in Libya on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2012.

The tolerable new remake of that American standard (which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's superior 1954 classic «The Seven Samurai») stresses multiculturalism more than machismo.

He'd better hope they're not the types who dig westerns (films about the law of the gun, machismo, etc), as his new one is a riff on this most American of genres.

This is the kind of film that in the wrong hands could have been a painfully tedious exercise in American military gung ho machismo, but thankfully McQuarrie makes sure that it never takes itself too seriously and making Cruise's character a rather cowardly, inept soldier works wonders for his likeability.

Muscular machismo and misplaced American pride combine in this intense drama with Steve Carell and Channing Tatum.

Despite lingering concerns that this quintessential American writer so notorious for his machismo might not resonate, the story of the old man's struggle to bring in his big fish touched them deeply.

The bloated, spent machismo of the American Dream is laid bare to reveal a deep - seated existential unease.

23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.

But the piece that best represents Colen's tackling of the machismo of the American way of life is undoubtedly The Big Kahuna (2010 - 17).