Sentences with phrase «u.s. culture wars»

By allowing a «bathroom bill» in the special session of the most powerful Republican - controlled state, Abbott has placed a focus on Texas on an issue that has been a flashpoint in U.S. culture wars, analysts said.

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In the U.S. we have seen a foxhole ecumenism develop during the culture wars.

I too am drawn to the Anabaptist tradition and believe it has something really special to offer Christians who are tired of the culture wars, as well as something important to say about how a post-Christian culture in the U.S. might actually be good for the Church.

Reports that the South African Parliament has approved gay marriage, and that the U.S. Catholic bishops have reiterated Church teaching on the disordered nature of homosexual acts, once again recall the line about the real reason for the culture wars: «It's the sex, stupid.»

One of the most startling developments in the culture war is the apparent takeover of the Republican Party by conservative evangelicals who claim that the U.S. is a Christian nation, uniquely called and blessed by God.

This historical strategic culture was shaken to its core during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union became capable of conducting devastating nuclear strikes on U.S. territory, which ceased to be a sanctuary.

Insularity has become a defining element of U.S. strategic culture resulting from its geography and an implicit assumption that wars are always fought on other distant lands.

A company whistleblower claimed last week that the Mercers and Bannon wanted to use the company to help them wage a culture war in America, though the effectiveness of the company's psychographic microtargeting methods has likely been oversold, at least in the U.S.

The same has been true on Afghanistan: the war cabinet has lacked real expertise on that countrys culture, economy and development challenges, and the U.S. public has remained uninformed of true options.

Working Paper Series # 1: Michael A. Genovese, Art and Politics: The Political Film as a Pedagogical Tool # 2: Donald B. Morlan, Pre-World War II Propaganda: Film as Controversy # 3: Ernest D. Giglio, From Riefenstahl to the Three Stooges: Defining the Political Film # 4: John W. Williams, The Real Oliver North Loses: The Reel Bob Robert Wins # 5: Robert L. Savage, Popular Film and Popular Communication # 6: Andrew Aoki, «Chan Is Missing:» Liberalism and the Blending of a Kaleidoscopic Culture # 7: Barbara Allen, Using Film and Television in the Classroom to Explore the Nexus of Sexual and Political Violence # 8: Robert S. Robins & Jerrold M. Post, Political Paranoia as Cinematic Motif: Stone's «JFK» # 9: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., From State and Local Censorship to Ratings: Substantitive Rationality, Political Entrepreneurship, and Sex in the Movies # 10: Stefanie L. Martin, Fiction and Independent Films: Creating Viable Communities and Coalitions by Reappropriating History # 11: Peter J. Haas, A Typology of Political Film # 12: Phillip L. Gianos, The Cold War in U.S. Films: Representing the Political Other # 13: Michael A. Genovese, The President as Icon & Straw Man: Hollywood & the Presidential Image # 14: Michael Krukones, Hollywood's Portrayal of the American President in the 1930s: A Strong and Revered Leader # 15.

In the final analysis this nonsense is in the cold - war culture shared by Russia and the U.S. rather than in some bacterium belonging to one side and not the other.

Then came the nerd - cool days and the high tech revolution, a status - obsessed culture of consumption, more sophisticated and devastating U.S. imperialist wars, purblind postmodern doxa, and, of course, the trend towards cultural studies in the academy.

He is currently working on a new book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuWar and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuwar in postwar U.S. culture.

Focusing on the U.S. conflict in the Middle East over the past 10 years, Consuming War addresses the ways the American media and consumer culture have manipulated and influenced our perceptions of war, often turning it into a spectacle for American consumptiWar addresses the ways the American media and consumer culture have manipulated and influenced our perceptions of war, often turning it into a spectacle for American consumptiwar, often turning it into a spectacle for American consumption.

He is currently working on a book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuWar and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. cultuwar in postwar U.S. culture.

«Growing up in a Greek immigrant community during the Cold War, especially in New Mexico, I felt that the culture was really not part of the U.S., but off the planet,» she says.

Exhibition highlights include Muxima (2005), a video work by Alfredo Jaar, featuring fragmented vignettes of landmines, the AIDS crisis, and remnants of colonialism in Angola; Jenny Holzer's large - scale color - blocked painting Water - board 14 U.S. government document (2010), which depicts a redacted, confidential U.S. government document; Omer Fast's film 5000 Feet Is the Best (2011), which grapples with drone warfare; An - My Lê's photographic depictions of war and military culture that play with fact and fiction; and photographs and a film by Eric Gottesman that are inspired by his exploration of the dissident Ethiopian novel Oromaye.

Andrés Serrano (b. 1950, New York): After exploding upon the U.S. art scene with his controversial photo of a crucifix immersed in urine, Serrano has never stayed far from America's off - and - on culture wars.

Look at the culture: the hyper - modernistic visions that emerged in art in the 1950s and 1960s — I'm thinking of Abstract Expressionism — participated, as Max Kozloff has argued, in this celebration of U.S. power during the Cold War.

The first recipient of the award — to be given biennially to an influential U.S. - based woman artist — is a pretty big deal: Brooklyn - based Martha Rosler, whose thought - provoking work touches on everything from «women's work,» war and materialism, to bourgeoisie foodie culture.

Wylie, who described Cambridge Analytica as a weapon designed to wage a culture war in the U.S., said Facebook wasn't particularly adamant about censuring his former company.

The war's impact on U.S. foreign policy, Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, and American culture is unquestionable.