Sentences with phrase «archetypal cases»

The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

The typical sufferer is an older male, with the archetypal case being the holder of an emeritus position.

Not exact matches

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

As was the case with the winning Transformers Devastation, Mutants in Manhattan presents an archetypal hero set - up.

These subjects are both archetypal and, in some cases, specifically drawn from the artist's surroundings — the artist's beloved dog Bubbles makes an appearance.