Sentences with phrase «autobiographical experiences»

Participants watched films of actors recalling happy, sad, surprised, angry, disgusted or fearful autobiographical experiences and provided continuous ratings of emotional intensity (assessing EA), as well as naming the emotion (recognition) and reporting the emotion they experienced themselves (affective empathy).

His practice encompasses mixed media sculptures, digital drawings and paintings of geometric patterns made in response to autobiographical experiences, points in history, landscape, iconic architecture or natural phenomena.

These artists interpret the thirty - year influence of the Vietnam War through autobiographical experiences, narratives, and postmemories.

Featuring 10 new paintings in Sam's signature style, a play with light and shadow, the works explore different characters in low sunlight and are based on autobiographical experiences.

Among the artists represented is Chicago - based McArthur Binion (b. 1946) whose triangular shaped, duo - chromatic black and white Differness: Three (2012) fuses African American autobiographical experiences with the visual tropes of predominantly white American modernism.

But, should you approach it like that, you'll find it's a pretty good one, gripping with autobiographical experience and savory technique.

Born in 1946, Binion has maintained an engaging practice that draws on autobiographical experience, African American narrative and the visual elements of Modernism.

Another, found in her filmic montages, creates connective tissue between pop / internet culture and autobiographical experience.

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Or I could have taken a more autobiographical tack, relating some of my own teenage experiences as a preacher's son in the 1950s.

It is clear from his autobiographical statements that Paul was able to move freely from one mode of consciousness to another, from the left hemisphere to, the right, and back again — from law to grace, from mystical experience to ethical evaluation.

There are several speeches on Goethe, two autobiographical books, two volumes of a projected four on a general theory of civilization, smaller tracts on atomic testing and world peace, a collection of sermons, numerous anthologies of his sayings, and a half dozen books and pamphlets on his experiences in Africa.

The insistence on experience, especially in an autobiographical form, might suggest a highly individualistic and personalistic note, but I do not think that this is the case.

This broadly phenomenological type of argumentation is necessary to the sort of «explicit» conviction that depends on direct and first - hand evidence, even while it properly recognizes that «our thought unavoidably moves within a hermeneutical circle which excludes any simple resolution of fundamental differences» (PP 87).11 Since it makes immediate reference to the evidence of one's own experience, a description of which is at issue, and only then is extended to all others one sympathetically imagines to be like oneself, it is essentially an autobiographical type of argumentation.

10 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF Autobiographies are made of personal memories, the sum total of our life experiences, including the experiences of the plans we have made for the future, specific or vague.

Three things stand out about our memories of life experiences, so - called autobiographical memories.

«Furthermore, the psychedelic nature of ibogaine tends to induce a dream - like state in which many report autobiographical subjective experiences, like watching their life as a movie from the vantage point of an observer,» Malcolm continued.

Invited Speakers: Martin Conway — Autobiographical memory and self http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/academic-staff-profiles/profe... Nick Chater — Self and Other in Joint Action http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ Kevin O'Regan — Phenomenal experience of self http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ Giorgio Metta — Physical Self and Peri-personal Space http://pasa.liralab.it Yiannis Demiris — Motor Self and Development of the Mirror system http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis Paul Verschure — An Architecture for Self specs.upf.edu Peter Ford Dominey — Construction of the Narrative Self over Time http://pfdominey.perso.sfr.fr/RobotDemos.htm

When experiencing trauma, the hippocampus, responsible for memories and spatial mapping, and the thalamus, which integrates the experience into our autobiographical self, shut down.

In 2000, he started an autobiographical blog about his experiences of being gay in China's conservative culture.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

[font = Century Gothic] «Lackawanna Blues» is based on the autobiographical play by Ruben Santiago - Hudson about his experiences growing up an unorthodox childhood in a rooming house owned and ran by Rachel «Nanny» Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) in the fifties and sixties in a largely minority neighborhood in Lackawanna, New York.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

It's actually an autobiographical account about his own incredible experience in North Korea in the late»50s — a love story between himself and a North Korean Red Cross nurse.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

By taking Jarman's own experiences of AIDS as its subject, the film manages to be personal and autobiographical but also taps into the consciousness of the viewer, who could not possibly be untouched by this global epidemic.

During TIFF last fall, our own Steven Weintraub chatted with Hunnam about the autobiographical tale of the late Henri Charrière «s experiences in the French prison system and its penal colony.

Carol (née The Price of Salt) is the most autobiographical of Patricia Highsmith's novels, dealing so frankly with her own lesbian experiences that she originally had it published under a pseudonym.

(The film is an autobiographical reflection on his own experience in the First Lebanon War.)

Greta Gerwig's script sparkles with wit and has the ring of truth: the film might only be partly based on her own experiences, but the fact Gerwig gave her cast her high school yearbooks and journals to help them prepare suggests a keenly felt autobiographical undercurrent.

There's also a strong autobiographical, or perhaps I should say therapeutic, component to the picture: its hero, Kit's David Holzman, is so obsessed with filmmaking that it clouds his ability to experience life.

Moonlight Mile is not exactly autobiographical, but surely draws on his experiences, and because of them Silberling (City of Angels, Casper) is able to convey a deeper range of emotions than somebody else could have.

Another autobiographical film about the war, John Boorman's «Hope and Glory,» detailed the experience of his family in suburban London during the Blitz and garnered five Academy Award nominations, including best picture.

In this autobiographical text, Gary Paulson narrates experiences he had in the bitter cold of the North which taught him to respect all...

From my experiences working in collaboration with Susan Florio - Ruane, I have seen how autobiography and autobiographical fiction can encourage the study of diversity and multiculturalism in ways that penetrate the reading and language arts curriculum in teacher education and for school - aged students (Florio - Ruane with deTar, 2001; Raphael et al., 2001).

You could probably say that the entire book is my attempt to understand what my mother was experiencing (not that there was anything autobiographical about the novel — I wanted to explore the effect of disease on characters and relationships).

Award - winning Spanish author Molina tells the story of James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after killing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and mixes it with autobiographical elements to ask: How does our experience of history, or our collective memory, affect our future?

This autobiographical novel manages to make the spiritual realm of gods and eternal consciousness attractive to a heathen like me while detailing a very 21st - century experience.

Jiménez's compelling autobiographical stories in Breaking Through, sequel to The Circuit, combine dramatic social issues of poverty and prejudice in the 1950s with timeless adolescent experiences of family tension, school, and romance.

«Without this being in any way autobiographical, Bard has undoubtedly drawn on his own wide and varied experiences to bring detail and authenticity to every meticulously researched scene he writes.

Especially when the the stories are really autobiographical and the author is reveling in the awesomeness of their own experience, filtered through educated pandering reflection and elevated, flowery word choice.

Often inspired by autobiographical details and by the arduous transformations of his home country, Paci's work intertwines personal narratives with metaphorical and poetical chronicles of the experience of life in exile.

Either way, I don't know how helpful autobiographical links are to the narratives in my work, but, when I make a painting, experience and memory does play a role in choosing images or the composition.

People make a bit of an autobiographical distinction, between a before and an after based on their own experience.

Looking at combines with being with to yield an experience that is equally autobiographical for the artist and the viewer.

Although deeply autobiographical, Brent's work questions the viewer's own perceptions of home and family, and in this way, speaks to a profoundly universal experience.

Phouthavong's source material for research is autobiographical and stems from her personal experience as a refugee, mother, wife, teacher, citizen, and observer of everyday culture.

Her process of selection and arrangement of materials is measured and refined, drawing equally on a precise formal language and the most intimate of personal experiences to create a compelling autobiographical thread.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the gray in between.

These autobiographical works draw on the memories that Neely carries with her, «hidden in plain sight,» of the experiences that have shaped her life.