Sentences with phrase «celebrity culture»

But I very much had these people — the biggest losers and winners of celebrity culture — in the back of my mind as I decided how I wanted to tell it.

Whereas both seem interested in American celebrity culture, they have foreign directors and entirely different energy.

It would seem that the art world can't escape celebrity culture.

I'm not the biggest fan of the art and high fashion world, but I am a fan of celebrity culture.

He draws on the interaction between illusion and picture plane of 60s Op art, as well as a Warholian fascination with celebrity culture.

His Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) is a venal, fame - obsessed character, who has used his connection to serial - killing Michael Myers as a springboard to fame (a decidedly postmodern comment on celebrity culture).

And while I see little value in releasing celebrity ages — granted, I see little value in celebrity culture in general — there's nothing preventing IMDb from doing it... yet.

It's the latest creation by photographer Alison Jackson, who explores celebrity culture by photographing lookalikes.

In writing these books Joanna Bogle has provided an entertaining and robust alternative to reading about celebrity culture.

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux has taken a direct shot at one of the staples of modern celebrity culture, banning selfies on the red carpet of this year's event.

This social media celebrity culture has pervaded our world for a while now; it's nothing too new.

The satirical jabs at celebrity culture smell like rotted leftovers from «The Fantastic Four.»

Craig Gillespie's (The Finest Hours, Lars and the Real Girl) biopic makes the assault on Kerrigan its centerpiece, but it also examines Harding as a larger symbol of how classist, sexist, and image - obsessed celebrity culture can be.

Take the rise of celebrity culture for example; ask a group of young people what they want to be when they grow up and chances are several of them will say, «I want to be famous.»

YA / Special Interest: Parallels to current celebrity culture will hook teen SF fans.

Her work has established wide respect for her as an incisive, funny and thought - provoking commentator on the burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary celebrity culture.

Channeling celebrity culture as well as the slick appearance and aspirations of the entertainment capital, Israel approaches his hometown with an uncanny coupling of local familiarity and anthropological curiosity.

To those most appalled by the prospect of a President Trump, it's an ugly manifestation of America's bigoted id, or the triumph of celebrity culture over substance, or a product of a broken information ecology in which acceptance of facts is optional.

The same corporate celebrity culture that elevated Trump from the boardroom to the White House is now building monuments to the bold CEOs who criticize him.

Because it's a heck of a lot easier to dish it out than it is to eat it up, let me tell you, and I think sometimes we inadvertently perpetuate celebrity culture by railing so loudly against it, by feeding into the caricatures with our derision.

And as much as you make like or loathe celebrity culture — I unapolo - getically fall in the loathe category — it is normalizing alternative ways of being.

Which is too bad, because if celebrity culture can indeed change societal norms, then we need role models like Mo'Nique on magazine covers like People to normalize open relationships and Hugh Grant to normalize the idea that «40 - year - long monogamous, faithful» marriages may not be the ideal.

What's not great is how celebrity culture makes motherhood look effortless and easy, especially when it comes to breastfeeding.

Whether it's the idea that moms who work in offices have it easier than famous moms in the balancing of work and family life, or the notion that breastfeeding is the «most natural thing,» celebrity culture builds up a standard that most regular folks will never be able to live up to.

A media - centric, consumeristic celebrity culture, the erosion of civic responsibility, & the effectiveness of machine /» gangster» politics on a dynastic scale all contribute in challenging the assumption that a government of the people, by the people, & for the people can sustain itself in the long run.

The 27 - year - old also criticized our distracting celebrity culture in general, explaining how she sees the massive fame of powerful people like Swift as an untapped tool in shining light on political issues.

«Starsuckers» is a revelatory documentary exposing the shams and deceit involved in creating a pernicious celebrity culture.

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion — nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

But the first ACS, The People v. O.J. Simpson, had a little extra something in the tank as it made connections between the spectacle of Simpson's trial and today's reality - TV celebrity culture.

Separate, we're only left with a half - boiled detective mystery that clumsily wants to say something about the toxic celebrity culture we live in today.

Rupert Murdoch has power, wealth — and legions of detractors, who say the media mogul's tabloids and TV stations have fueled crass celebrity culture, phone hacking and fake news.

People's Republic of Desire Hao Wu's documentary peels back the curtain on the unbelievable internet celebrity culture gripping hold of China via the social network YY.

Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights makes our social - media - driven celebrity culture such a centerpiece of its story that this old - fashioned romantic drama set in the world of showbiz seems more topical than it actually is.

Rock explores the insanity and inanity of celebrity culture vs. artistic integrity with Top Five, and while his previous two directorial efforts, Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife, never really connected with audiences (though I do like the latter), he's a more natural fit here essentially satirizing aspects of his daily existence as a comedian and actor.

Through Jonny, who has absorbed the values of the shallow, success - obsessed world he lives in, Wayne manages to critique not merely celebrity culture but all of us.

Oum Kulthum is a subject who occupies a singular position in twentieth - century celebrity culture — beloved on a world scale and an enigmatic icon to tens of millions,» said Bruce W. Ferguson, President of Otis College.

As a corrective, Adam McEwen parodies celebrity culture with fake New York Times obits for Rod Stewart, Nicole Kidman, Bill Clinton, and Jeff Koons.

The representation of these heavily mediated individuals, and the questions about image dissemination and public life, become particularly relevant in present times, where the fields of politics, spectacle and celebrity culture collide and merge.

Postwar celebrity culture only exacerbated matters by convincing people that artists whose work is well known should themselves be well known.

Jon Rafman immerses viewers in environments where gaming landscapes and physical reality fuse as dark, hypnotizing hybrids; Yves Scherer probes celebrity culture and popular media in works that toe the line between critique, satire, and celebration; and Simon Denny examines surveillance and digital subcultures by plumbing the depths of images, information, and communication stored on the internet.

Discover how one of the 20th century's most innovative artists forged an indelible legacy as a pioneer by ignoring art - world taboos and incorporating fashion and celebrity culture into his pop art.

Jonathan Jones: Phil Collins» artwork on reality TV victims may seem to attack celebrity culture - but that's exactly what he's turning the Turner prize into.

I was tempted to slip off at the end, perhaps to see if Jeffrey Deitch had managed to bring Soho celebrity culture ever closer to Hollywood.

Wachtel's practice of media and celebrity culture set her apart from the Pictures Generation and is a notable precursor to the digital age.

Themes that relate to American society, including celebrity culture, race, sexuality, and police brutality, are broached in her paintings.

Peyton works with ideas surrounding celebrity culture, much like Andy Warhol — an artist to whom she is often compared.

«Alex's practice addresses celebrity culture and the iconography of L.A. through the conceptual lens of Warhol and Duchamp.

While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.

Pierson has often engaged celebrity culture, refusing ironic treatment of the subject to instead confess, or seem to confess, his own attraction to the fantasy life depicted in his artworks.