Sentences with phrase «cultural phenomenon when»

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a cultural phenomenon when it hit the silver screen in 1988.

The English Patient was such a cultural phenomenon when it was released that Seinfeld built it into an episode of the same name during its 8th season (joining Schindler's List as Best Picture winner which serviced elements of the sitcom's plot).

-- Linda Lovelace was the first porn celebrity, the uniquely gifted, girl - next - door star of Deep Throat, a cultural phenomenon when released in 1972.

Not exact matches

In 1982, Steven Spielberg was already the star director of such blockbuster fare as «Jaws» and «Raiders of the Lost Ark.» But when «E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial» was unleashed upon the masses that summer, he became a bona fide cultural phenomenon, the rare director who can get mainstream movie fans into theaters simply because his name is on the poster.

Big Brother isn't the interesting cultural phenomenon it was when it began.

As a contemporary cultural phenomenon, selfies are of interest to psychologists, in terms of how people think and feel when taking, posting and viewing both their own selfies and those posted by others.

When Bumble launched, however, it broke new ground by having women I'll be honest: the cultural phenomenon that is Girls has more or less passed me However, I will absorb the occasional moment from the show through

When first released in 1996, the film was a cultural phenomenon.

And that was fine a decade ago when The Room was still in its first blush as a cultural phenomenon, but you can't keep up the act forever, not unless you want to turn into a joke that you're no longer in on.

One of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema, it's funny to think that Anderson was endorsed by Martin Scorsese way back in the day when the «Mean Streets» director co-signed onto his then little - cared - for debut «Bottle Rocket» several years before Anderson would blow up into a cultural phenomenon (that wouldn't be until around «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou»).

Every Little Step Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Having been performed in 22 countries over the course of four wildly successful decades, A Chorus Line is no ordinary Broadway smash — it's a full - fledged cultural phenomenon.

When a genuine cultural phenomenon emerges for the most part through word - of - mouth, the boom can be bewildering to those who aren't immediately swept up.

Belgium probably does not spring to the front of one's mind when considering examples of hip happenings and exciting cultural phenomenon.

It's always interesting when games cross over into full - blown cultural phenomena.

Rather than simplistically linking revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts with larger social and cultural phenomenon, he writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events.

One thing that engagement with this phenomenon has revealed, however, is that the «white male effect» is really a «white hierarchical and individualist male effect»: the extreme risk skepticism of white males with these cultural outlooks is so great that it suggests white males generally are less concerned, when in fact the gender and race divides largely disappear among people with alternative cultural outlooks.

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.

Empirical studies aimed at trying to make sense of this phenomenon have concluded that the reason the public remains divided on «scientific consensus» isn't that they haven't been exposed to evidence on the matter but rather that when they are exposed to evidence of what experts believe they selectively credit or discredit it in patterns that reflect and reinforce their perception that scientific consensus is consistent with the position that predominates in their cultural or ideological group.