Sentences with phrase «cultural critics like»

When the movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars hit theaters in June, cultural critics like Slate's Ruth Graham immediately started lampooning grownups who read YA books that «abandon the mature insights... that they (supposedly) have acquired as adults.»

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Like a growing number of cultural critics who are not Catholic, Kass has come to conclusions regarding contraception that are similar to the prophetic warnings contained in Paul VI's 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

Martin Buber, another major figure to emerge from the tumultuous interwar years in Germany, is often thought to be, like Strauss, a critic of the cultural and political assumptions of the «scientific study of Judaism.»

The heyday for American film criticism was the»70s because I think the people that got into it at that point were really inspired by the likes of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, both of whom became famous and established the importance of film critics as a cultural force.

For a medium that's treated like the redheaded stepchild of the film world, then, it is especially maddening for cultural critics to hold it to a higher standard of quality only when they feel like it.

In this talk from legendary movie critic Leonard Maltin, audiences will be taken on a journey tracing the image of the Jew in films, from early stereotypes to cultural breakthroughs, from closeted stardom (Issur Demsky became Kirk Douglas, Betty Perske became Lauren Bacall) to modern - day box - office names like Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler.

The byproduct of more universal schooling — or perhaps its main product — was the American teenager, «a New Deal project» much like the Hoover Dam, wrote cultural critic Thomas Hine.

Through characters like Rosacoke Mustian, Wesley Beavers, Kate Vaiden and Blue Calhoun, Price introduced us to men and women — and critics praised Price for his deep understanding of women's nature — who, in some cases, were tentatively taking their first steps toward the secrets of adulthood, and in others were struggling to discover their freedom and identity in a world that would just as soon keep them imprisoned in narrow cultural stereotypes.

The campaigns against cultural appropriation, like that against Exhibit B, empower not those suffer from racism or inequality but, in the acid words of the African - American critic Adolph Reed, «the guild of Racial Spokespersonship», those who take it on themselves to be the guardians of the acceptable.