Sentences with phrase «celebrity culture as»

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.

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One habit of Prince's they told me about struck me as so counter to our times that I came to see it as illustrating what set him apart from today's culture of celebrity: he allowed no one near him to use a cell phone.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

Be part of the exclusive celebration as one of pop culture's most outspoken celebrities reveals her own 3D Zoobe character.

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

Instead of misappropriating celebrity death as a gospel opportunity, I believe we should use it to demonstrate that we understand and relate, not to our culture, but to human beings.

Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

But, most important of all, its whole culture — its use of evangelical celebrities and its media savvy — has made it that much more influential at congregational level even as it is accountable to no - one but a self - selected few.

My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne and Yeezus represented a hard thematic turn: They deal with the opulence of celebrity culture and the intoxicating power of wealth and fame — as well as, ultimately, all of the inner darkness they can bring forth.

I know, I know — we've all gone bonkers with the HOW I LOST THE BABY WEIGHT AND THEN SOME HERE I AM IN A BIKINI ON THE COVER OF US WEEKLY THREE DAYS LATER celebrity mom culture, but the fact is that I really did feel quite unhappy with how I looked, as completely unrealistic as I was being.

The Royals as victims of unfair public pressure («the system is unfair to the Royals themselves as much as anybody» is a more powerful one post-the 1990s, and with our particular form of celebrity culture (which the Royals have themselves used post the 1960s with the first family argument).

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.

Pumpkin is so much a part of the traditions, aesthetic, and culture of fall that as soon as the leaves start to change, this many - sized celebrity of squashes starts to dominate our newsfeeds, grocery store displays, and lattes before we even have time to break out our UGG boots.

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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.

Can please make a collective decision, as consumers of mindless pop culture and celebrity dating stories, to stop speculating about Jennifer Aniston's opinion on the breakdown of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's... [Read more...]

«Television personality and pop culture expert Ross Mathews will serve as Grand Marshal; celebrity bartender and cast member of iHeart Radio's «Elvis... «I could never do online dating.»

Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming The Medium Awareness trope as used in popular culture.

Comedian Chelsea Handler travels the globe and sits down with celebrity guests to discuss such topics as international cultures; alternative lifestyles; education; health; sports; parenting; politics; and more.

As such, it poses all sorts of questions about the intersection of art, celebrity and psychological disturbance in our media culture, but it also gives us Laura Albert as a shape - shifting artist of astonishing talent, resourcefulness and originalitAs such, it poses all sorts of questions about the intersection of art, celebrity and psychological disturbance in our media culture, but it also gives us Laura Albert as a shape - shifting artist of astonishing talent, resourcefulness and originalitas a shape - shifting artist of astonishing talent, resourcefulness and originality.

Overall, Ingrid Goes West takes a lot of humorous shots at millennials and their addictions to phones as well the social media celebrity culture.

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

Waters» film aptly mocks the gallows frenzy of the murderer - celebrity, reveling in the grotesque pleasure derived from these monsters we hail as pop culture icons.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

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.

His father (Roshan Seth) has become minor celebrity as a trendy Buddhist guru but Karim is still looking for his identity in a world where racism simmers and culture is in such a state of flux that anything seems possible.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

His cinema has spanned such subjects as South American civil war (Salvador), the Vietnam War (Platoon), speculative capitalism (Wall Street), the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK), as well as media, violence and the celebrity culture (Natural Born Killers).

Themes of popularity vs. reputation, Cinema vs. Stage, celebrity and social criticism all come under the cosh as Alejandro González Iñárritu meticulously dissects all strands of art culture, before our very eyes.

The former are I suppose to be expected in a culture that so readily embraces the subsequent casts of The Real World and other MTV reality show jetsam as bonafide celebrities.

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).

MacFarlane has a well - established penchant for pop - culture references and celebrity cameos in his projects, and Ted 2 continues that tradition with some fun re-appearances from the first film, as well as some new additions that will be great for fans of films and / or MacFarlane's animated universe.

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.

As he combs through East Los Angeles searching for any kind of clues he can find, he stumbles upon a larger, more sinister conspiracy than he ever imagined, involving billionaires, celebrities, urban myths, and even pop culture as we know iAs he combs through East Los Angeles searching for any kind of clues he can find, he stumbles upon a larger, more sinister conspiracy than he ever imagined, involving billionaires, celebrities, urban myths, and even pop culture as we know ias we know it.

Designed as a ruthless satire of everything from Youtube celebrity to viral videos to America Idol / The Voice culture, a microcosm of a world in which website hits directly correlate with self - worth (hence the film's title).

A judge ruled that it would be inappropriate for Arena to play a Gomorrah gangster but Garrone was eventually permitted to cast the former hitman as a fishmonger in his celebrity - culture satire Reality.

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.

And the movie's tweaks of media and celebrity culture (Walter goes on a national morning show to tout his toy company's new product) come across as somewhat diversionary, and off the drumbeat of the main narrative.

With elements of wordplay, in - jokes, nonstandard spelling, puns and references to celebrities of the day, the authors comment that nicknames act «as an index of youth culture».

However, as with so much of celebrity culture, there are traps for the unwary.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Consider the author's place in popular culture: The big ones are celebrities, and the smaller ones are adored and admired as semi-celebrities.

The irony in all this is as «real journalism» via mega-media corps capitulated to celebrity Murdoch culture they left the door wide open for the return of real news through other sources.

He has successful authors in a wide variety of fiction categories, including thrillers, crime fiction, women's and book club fiction, and a wide variety of nonfiction, such as military, celebrity and pop culture, narrative, sports, prescriptive, and current events.

Built as an iconic landmark showcasing Arabian culture and hospitality at its finest, Emirates Palace has created an enviable niche in luxury hospitality, welcoming world leaders, celebrities, global business travelers and leisure guests with a truly memorable and unique experience, luxurious contemporary facilities and amenities in comfortable and traditional Arabian surroundings with personalized world - class service.

Built as an iconic landmark showcasing Arabian culture and hospitality at its finest, Emirates Palace, managed by Kempinski, has created an enviable niche in luxury hospitality, welcoming world leaders, celebrities, global business travellers and leisure guests with a truly memorable and unique experience, luxurious contemporary facilities and amenities in comfortable and traditional Arabian surroundings with personalized world class service.

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

Deeply entwined with his hometown, his work explores popular media, Hollywood, and the cult of celebrity, while positing LA as central to an understanding of American culture and the American dream.

For her imminent solo exhibition «I Rose Madder» at John McAslan + Partners (5 October to 10 November), Trish casts herself as the hero, putting a post-feminist twist on the Country & Western movie genre from the point of view of a female artist living through an era of celebrity culture obsessed with the perfect female image.