Sentences with phrase «american myth making»

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

Not exact matches

«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.

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Lawrence Kushner, The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd, The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Friesen, Satan and the Problem of Evil by Greg Boyd, A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden, and Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right by Anders Stephanson.

That being said, however, for at least the short - term future most American children will be attending public schools dominated by the myths of neutrality toward the differences that make the deepest difference.

Forgetting the idiosyncratic, unspeakably diverse crowds of strangers, we become drawn through television to the familiar faces, myths and visions of the American Way of Life, thereby putting ourselves in touch with a shared vision of the human order — a vision that engages our loyalties and makes sense of our world.

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.

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....

Also, it is a myth out there that Malaysian women don't like mean other than their own race or religion but it is not completely true as Malaysian women are really attracted towards Americans and they make up a great pair.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

The Myth of the American Sleepover DVD Review by Kam Williams DVD Features Teens Acting Out in End of Summer Saga There's a thin line between making a Mumblecore and shooting a home movie, and in the case of The Myth of the American Sleepover it hard to discern exactly which you might be watching.

There is certainly a plethora of different possibilities for black American cinema to explore right now, from the Brechtian operatics of Spike Lee's Chi - Raq to the exuberant pop myth - making we can no doubt expect from Ryan Coogler's Black Panther.

After that, she appeared in both «Tiny Furniture» and «The Myth Of The American Sleepover» in the same year, as well as leading Adam Wingard «s «A Horrible Way To Die,» 2011 saw her return to producing with both Joe Swanberg «s «Silver Bullets» and the Greta Gerwig - written «The Dish & The Spoon,» before making her directorial debut in 2012 with crime tale «Sun Don't Shine,» one of the best - received films at SXSW (and edited by «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» director David Lowery).

From Tarantino's vicious post-modern gunplay to the tragic and self - conscious myth - making of Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the spirit of Bonnie and Clyde continues to leave a corpse - littered trail through American cinema.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Teen Anomie and Angst Aplenty in Anticlimactic End of Summer Saga There's a thin line between making a Mumblecore and shooting a home movie, and in the case of The Myth of the American Sleepover it hard to discern exactly which you might be watching.

Mitchell had already gained respect with his first film, The Myth of the American Sleepover, and his electrifyingly scary movie made him, as they say, hotter than Georgia asphalt.

The movie marks the sophomore offering from the innovative director, who first made a splash five years ago with The Myth of the American Sleepover.

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.

Much like the two - faced Janus of Greek myth, the Sympathizer is forever looking both forward and back — forward to a time when he and the people he reports to can make a comeback in Vietnam, and back to his life in the United States, one of the many «boat people» the country is forced to accommodate, all an uncomfortable reminder of an inglorious outcome: «The majority of Americans regarded us with ambivalence if not outright distaste, we being living reminders of their stinging defeat.

Cargill's myth - making is unrelentingly dark in tone, more Mignola (Hellboy) than Gaiman (American Gods, Coraline, etc.).

If you're interested in making a pittie part of your family, educate yourself about breed myths and check out the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals» tips for adopting a pit bull.

Myth # 1: A big one that quite a few Americans seem to hold (and that completely makes me go from 0 to 60 on the pissed off scale) is that hostels are dangerous.

The mythic figures and beasts merge various myths (Egyptian, Assyrian, Meso - American, Greco - Roman), sitting uneasily at the juncture of spectacle and satire, but their sheer detail and scale (one figure, Demon with Bowl, stands several storeys high) makes the jaw drop.

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.»

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.»

LaFleur explores ideas around historical traumas, myth - making, transcendence, and the role of spirit science and technology within Black American socio - political movements.

This is concrete poetry, and myth - making: The name by which the world would know him — Robert Indiana — is a nom de guerre that asserts his place in the bittersweet American Dream.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

Art historian Robin Clark observed, «Louise Nevelson took her identity as a Russian - born American Jewish woman artist and used it as raw material to construct both a myth and a body of work that speaks hyperbolically to the binary opposites of which she was made: extravagance and asceticism, clarity and confusion, darkness and light.»

Louise Nevelson took her identity as a Russian - born American Jewish woman artist and used it as raw material to construct both a myth and a body of work that speaks hyperbolically to the binary opposites of which she was made: extravagance and asceticism, clarity and confusion, darkness and light.

1992 Kandinsky and the American Avant - Garde, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Myth - Making: Abstract Expressionist Painting from the United States, Tate Gallery, London, England The WPA Era: Urban Views & Visions, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Where the wind industry's propaganda machine has spent the best part of 20 years trying to reinvent the facts, giving perceived substance to myth and fantasy — what American comedian Stephen Colbert defines as «truthiness», assertions emanating «from the gut» which are made because they just «feel right» — STT has spent its entire existence -LSB-...]

The New American has published many stories over the years debunking the claim that there is a «consensus of science» on man - made global warming, particularly exposing the flawed and fraudulent studies by Naomi Oreskes and John Cook that have been cited innumerable times to manufacture the «97 percent of scientists agree» myth.