Sentences with phrase «american myth»

In fact, that's the unsettling thing about it all: the works of the Germans here fit almost too perfectly the popular North American myth of Berlin, as a hotbed of anxious decadence, empty rebellion and mass badness.

The work is a multilayered and cinematic exploration of American myth, gender roles, identity, and the tradition of the androcentric American road trip photography.

«Lynch is fascinated by this portrait of a postwar American myth that Hopper conveyed through his canvases.

Home to Hollywood, the city churns out myth after American myth.

as a sign of a presumably despised «liberal democracy» and «open code for the newest American myth: the multicultural, progressive future.»

Like him, they were interested in Native American myth, symbolism, and graphic methods, and like him they had little interest in deploying these elements in anything like a literal fashion.

In this regard, curiously, was a point made in an article titled «The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women,» which criticized the biennial for including Dawoud Bey's portrait of Barack Obama as a sign of a presumably despised «liberal democracy» and «open code for the newest American myth: the multicultural, progressive future.»

Larger than life, he sauntered up to the plate and took on the mantle as our all - American myth because we needed a hero.

With American Gothic, Grant Wood had found his American myth.

The goal of «Sounds of the West» is to explore a range of American Myth and Rituals through the marriage of sound and sculpture.

The story of the Nicola letters, in which one man expresses his desire for George Washington to become king of The United States of America, has mutated over time into a great American myth.

From the Nintendo Direct last year, some appear to be based on the Native American myth of the Chenoo, a kind of elemental golem from the region.

Why has The Godfather become an American myth?

Though you live and write in the US, does being British help in some odd way to clarify your insight into American myth and behavior?

During her lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything.

During the lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» cosponsored by the Askwith Forum and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything, even if coming...

The western is an American myth that has been translated by other cultures and reinterpreted time and again, but never dies.

Lean on Pete's 21st - century update of the Oregon Trail is far from the first film to examine social discord and disarray through the prism of a single interstate journey: Haigh himself describes it in a recent Sight & Sound interview as «a modern version of the American myth», citing a break from tradition in that Charley goes «the opposite way, not looking for freedom, but for security and stability.»

An exciting return to the great car - culture films of the 1960s and»70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, «Need for Speed» taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.

And that's what's so subtly special about The Rider — the way it takes what easily could have been reportage and turns it into modern American myth.

Omissions and fabrications add to American myth making — craft the story, give them a performance.

If we are going to be fair to all religions, either remove the ersatz science that teaches out of th ebible, or make every kid get a science textbook, a bible, a koran, the upanishads, maybe throw in a little shinto and native american myth etc....

It is an American myth that we defend our liberty with the «right to bear arms» (as it is popularly misconstrued).

A decade ago Kenneth Craycraft argued, in The American Myth of Religious Freedom, that the myth was that the government could neutrally adjudicate moral claims among religions.

Scott, it is readily possible to argue that Jesus didn't exist but is, in fact, an amalgam of folk legends and myths assembled long after the fact and after all the eyewitnesses were dead, much like the legend of King Arthur or the American myth of Paul Bunyan.

The weakness of a critical socialist tradition in America can not be explained altogether by the success of capitalism or the repression of socialism but is in part due to those features of American culture and American myth that we have been examining.1

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

If the defining American myth is that of Progress, the belief that each new time will be an improvement over what went before, Lincoln did not subscribe to it.

I really think it runs that deep, this idea [of] the American myths — and whether it's true or not is not the point — this is the way that we shaped our identity, this rugged individualism, this rifle and shovel, that if you work hard you can get your dreams, and we're not gonna be a monarchy.

This very moment challenges all the American myths ever made about fair play, and blessing, and the protestant ethic, and the American dream, and freedom and justice for all.

Quite a bit of Nebraska takes place in the distance between Hawthorne and Lincoln, and there's no doubt that Payne's quiet ambition is to sketch the fate of certain American myths symbolized by those names — and by a third, still - active American of near - mythic status that the film's title can't help but evoke, Bruce Springsteen.

the Odyssey ~ and other texts as well as test their knowledge ofAfrican myths ~ Native American myths and Norse myths.

The «ribald, pop - culture - obsessed provocateur» (The New York Times) Paul McCarthy (cover of Juxtapoz in Nov / Dec 1999) applies his signature, irreverent wit to take aim at American myths and icons in WS, his largest work to date and the pinnacle of his creative output.

The «ribald, pop - culture - obsessed provocateur» (The New York Times) Paul McCarthy (cover of Juxtapoz in Nov / Dec 1999) applies his signature, irreverent wit to take aim at American myths

The heroic scale and masculine subjects also recalled American myths.

The «ribald, pop - culture - obsessed provocateur» (The New York Times) Paul McCarthy applies his signature, irreverent wit to take aim at American myths and icons in WS, his largest work to date and the pinnacle of his creative output.

The American Scene of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton declares a folk realism, like Motley's goat that might pass for a unicorn with two horns, while creating American myths.

Writers have suggested how deeply artists such as were embedded in American myths.

The series Stumbling Pioneers, painted upon his return to his hometown Los Angles after 20 years, explores the myth of the frontier, as arguably the longest - lived of American myths.

Find out more about the myth of the frontier, one of the longest - lived of American myths.

EXHIBITION Part of its Princeton & Slavery Project, a campus - wide initiative examining how Princeton is directly linked to and has benefitted from slavery, the university museum presents «Making History Visible: Of American Myths and National Heroes.»

Often illuminated by flashes of searchlights, Ruscha's paintings of common objects and urban night scenes evoke atmospheres culled from Hollywood movies, casting a dark shadow on American myths of affluence and success.

For the past 20 years Alexis Smith's mixed media work has explored primal American myths: the open road, the bad / good guy / gal, the quest for romance, and the search for paradise.

And many have stepped back into history and sampled American myths and folklore as they have looked for answers.

Not exact matches

Trump was referring to the long - debunked myth that Army Gen. John Joseph «Black Jack» Pershing, who was the governor of the Philippines after the Spanish - American war, quelled Muslim insurgents there by shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig's blood.

In The Wages of Wins, a book co-authored by three American economics professors, its writers debunk sports myths, including the notion that spectators desert leagues after labour disputes.

Not about the notion of unhindered upward mobility itself — even the most optimistic have long since acknowledged that particular American Dream is more myth than reality.

This is actually a myth — unless you're in low orbit «under a specific set of weather and lighting conditions,» according to Scientific American.

Countless Americans believe the «good guy with a gun» myth, but — as we saw with the armed guard in Florida who never went inside the high school — that isn't always the case.

«We are trying to showcase and bust the myth that Airbnb supports mom and pop and helps them make extra money,» Mr. Flanagan, of the American Hotel and Lodging Association, said.