Sentences with phrase «crass commercial»

It suggests a kind of pure, lofty, artistic autonomy... free from the crass commercial considerations of the big impersonal Game Giants.

Imagine someone came up to me and said, «Courtney, since you write romance, I assume that you've sold out the One True Writing of Sad Books for crass commercial happy endings.

A hybrid between crass commercial capitalization on nostalgia and a holiday film based around that obnoxious Chipmunk Christmas song, 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks boasts a surprising supporting turn from edgy comic David Cross.

Olympus Has Fallen is about as crass a commercial endeavor as anything.

The problem with dividing one novel into two movies - for crass commercial rea sons or otherwise - is that you risk one film that's all setup and a second that's all payoff.

We have a crass commercial culture that is totally about what you look like, how much money you make, the car you drive, the house you live in, etc..

Not exact matches

If all of this seems crass, commercial and even cynical, perhaps some awareness is needed about the many ways in which this same electronic communications technology is routinely a part of everyone's life.

No matter how crass and commercial it ended up being, it provided an excellent spur to Atlanta's infrastructure, sporting and otherwise, and a relatively small cost to the taxpayers.

Even though it's a somewhat crass, definitely commercial adaptation of a beloved children's book, Mr. Popper's Penguins isn't quite the abomination it could have been.

The usual Spielberg rhetoric about the sanctity of childhood and the beauty of dreams seems wholly factitious in this crass context, which even includes a commercial — in the form of a rock video — for the tie - in merchandise.

Smart without being smart - mouthed, shrewd without being calculated, and quite obviously the work of a filmmaker with something important to say and a clear and impish way of saying it, Jerry Maguire is a triumph of nuanced social satire masquerading as a commercial romantic comedy, a movie that can both make fun of and wallow in its celebration of the crass spectacle American sport has become.

Commercial publishers, as crass as you might think their list to be, are not the cause of your problems, nor a suitable target for your ire.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

In his early career Warhol forced the cultural establishment to integrate signs of crass consumerism (the Soup Cans) and commercial exploitation (the Marilyns) into the world of high art, thus helping to destroy the very distinction between high and low art.