Sentences with phrase «cult of celebrity»

(Sadly, our churches can sometimes resemble our culture instead of Jesus — witness our fascination with militarism, entertainment cults of celebrity, power, materialism, and patriarchal culture and so on.)

True, they also have the ablity to «Hype» a book into the best seller list if they want to because people are still gullible!Such is the media driven cult of celebrity.

One thinks of the cult of celebrity.

Many social observers think that the growth of such confusions in our culture has created a cult of celebrity, the worshipful adulation of men and women whose only claim to honor and respect is popularity.

However, a sad counterfeit of charismatic leadership still shows up today in the cult of the celebrity, and in a disposition to limit presidential candidates to those who pass the camera test for office.

The cult of celebrity has infected the Christian culture in the U.S. in some disturbing ways.

And yet this extraordinary marketing feat is what we now witness in the swagger of certain leaders and their followers, in their lack of accountability, in the cults of celebrity, in the massive influence wielded by media savvy organizations, in the plethora of lucrative personal ministries, and in the various other expensive products and pyrotechnics of the movement.

... It was almost as though football itself were taunting England for its lack of tactical sophistication and its concomitant obeisance to the cult of the celebrity player.

Its role in developing further the cult of the celebrity by churning out a regular stream of trashy and mindless programmes must be questioned.»

It is remarkably obvious when young people have been influenced by entertainment television and the cult of celebrity.

A brilliant sequence in which Kenneth and gun - shop owner Andy (Bruce Bohne), marooned across a parking lot on the roof of his store, engage in a game of celebrity skeet shooting (the zombie «Burt Reynolds» gets one in the brainpan, which, by itself, earns the picture a recommendation) touches on our relationship to the cult of celebrity in the same breezy way as its commentary on consumerism.

Cue a long drawn out discussion trying to make some sense out of one of the most divisive films of many a year and still not getting anywhere closer to a conclusion; was it a comment on the cult of celebrity, a religious allegory on the myth of Genesis, an eco-message about our mistreatment of Mother Earth?

Profoundly magical, funny, unsettling, and gorgeous — a love letter to Los Angeles and provocative satire of America's fascination with itself, its cult of celebrity; a vision of the death of Old Hollywood.

Elizabeth Hurley, the Brit beauty who is no stranger to the onslaught of tabloid headlines both in the U.S. and her native England, calls the film «a satire on the cult of celebrity in America, and how the media goes insane and intrudes on peopleís lives.»

As my colleague Brendon wrote on Twitter: «Just a reminder that the Golden Globes is the most facile and fatuous of the «major awards» because it's literally * just * the cult of celebrity writ large.

Though the message is muddled at times, the movie really has a lot to say about the sexual politics at the time, the cult of celebrity, and, well, plain «ol cultism.

It also deals with Georgian theatre, scientific advance, the cult of celebrity and the hunger for sexual and racial freedom.

Now Haynes does it again with his exceptional new I'm Not There, a deconstruction of the biopic as well as a fascinating look at the cult of celebrity, and, on a deeper level, the celebrity as a godlike being with answers to all our questions.

In your novels you've taken on issues of managed health care, the Mormon church, the cult of celebrity.

I am drawn to the cult of celebrity and the ridiculous parts of our culture, and also abuse of power issues.

J. Carson Black: I have always been fascinated by the cult of celebrity.

That pretty much started the cult of celebrity and mass media.

Through his practice, he has managed to transform the notion of an artist to the cult of celebrity in the global market.

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.

«Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market,» the Whitney notes in describing the Koons exhibit.

Warhol used all the advanced technology available during his time: photography, video, film without disregarding painting, drawing and silk - screening to express his fascination with the consumerist society, and the cult of celebrity, which were his favorite themes.

Drawing on Pallant House Gallery's extensive collection of British Pop Art, it considers how the movement emerged as a means to address the rise of mass media, the cult of celebrity, and questions around identity and politics.

He has also transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity -LSB-...]

In stark contrast, Alison Jackson adds an element of modernity to the exhibition with her thought provoking commentary on English society and London?s growing obsession with the cult of celebrity.

Today the innovative work of artists such as Elad Lassry, Josephine Meckseper, and Ryan Trecartin demonstrates that commodity culture, display, and the cult of celebrity maintain a strong resonance.

Art is life, and life sometimes revolves around the cult of celebrities.

Alison Jackson adds an element of modernity to the exhibition with her thought provoking commentary on English society and London's growing obsession with the cult of celebrity.

Deeply entwined with his home town, Israel's art explores the iconography of L.A. and Hollywood, and the cult of celebrity.

Addressing the rise of mass media, consumerism and the cult of celebrity, Pop Art saw a generation of British artists led by Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and Patrick Caulfield take their cue from advertising, comics, science fiction and contemporary music.

But with the advent in the»80s of turbo capitalism and the cult of celebrity, the public profile of certain figures underwent a change.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of artists led by Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake responded to a radical cultural shift in Britain, addressing the rise of mass media, the cult of celebrity, questions of identity and prevalent political issues — all concerns still relevant today.

Reflecting on the cult of celebrity, commodity fetishism and media reproduction that permeated everyday life in the postwar era, Pop Art continues to shape our society's cultural self - understanding to this day.

Four of the 17 artists were on hand (Antek Walczak, Amalia Ulman, Bill Hayden, Alex Israel) with their works that explore how contemporary artists respond to a world obsessed with spectacle, the cult of celebrity and the pervasiveness of social media.

Mark FLOOD has been mining the cult of celebrity since the early 1980s, physically and literally distorting publicity images in every imaginable way through collage, reprinting and over-painting celebrity portraits and advertising.

Whereas Warhol made representational works that dealt with consumerism or the cult of celebrity, Krushenick stayed away from commentary.

Things from our daily routine, popular culture elements, television and advertising (that were going through their golden age), entertainment, the cult of celebrities, comic books, interior and product design, newspapers and magazines — all of them got a whole new meaning with Pop art, which used them as its backbone in order to give them a fresh context.

He has also challenged the limits of industrial fabrication and helped usher artists into the cult of celebrity on a global scale, according to The Whitney Museum of American Art.

A homage to the tragic star of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, the work comments on the cult of celebrity and on the film's depiction of the sexual attraction between James Dean and his male co-star Sal Mineo.

Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market.

In the larger sense the cult of celebrity and the trend of «winner take all» success came to define the USA.

I may not work in the magazines (or even journalism) anymore, but it doesn't stop my brain whirring about the cult of celebrity.

When I left magazines, I couldn't stop thinking about smarter ways to cover the cult of celebrity.