Sentences with phrase «cultural representations of»

There is an expansive body of scholarly work that interrogates cultural representations of evil or morally ambiguous lawyers, but our line of inquiry in this article will trace the metaphor of the female madwoman or monster as it circulates within representations of women lawyers in popular film.

shows that while racist imagery dominated popular white cultural representations of black people, during the same period, a conversation about beauty, activism, and self - imaging was happening in the black community itself.

Fahamu Pecou, a winner of this year's MOCA GA Working Artist Project, addresses pop cultural representations of blackness and the manner in which they inform black male mobility, agency and masculinity.

Owusu often combines personal ethnography and cultural representations of beauty to play with experimental film aesthetics while preserving historical traditions.

West Virginia Filmakers Guild $ 10,000 Morgantown, WV Art Works — Media Arts To support production and post-production costs for a documentary on cultural representations of Appalachia.

Through Mas Rudas, Buentello's work has evolved to explore socio - cultural examinations of Chican @ identity and cultural representations of gender.

Groups might also include music, clothing, and cultural representations of the period.

Martin sees disturbing parallels between the cultural representations of people who fall by the wayside in the world of work — through unemployment, «deskilling» or lack of training — and those who fall ill as a result of «inferior» immune responses, leading to AIDS, cancer or a host of other diseases.

Considered a pioneer of the feminist art movement, she lectures, writes and publishes extensively on painting, feminist art, lesbian art, and the cultural representation of «difference».

Considered a pioneer of the feminist art movement, she lectures, writes and publishes extensively on feminist art, lesbian art, and the cultural representation of «difference».

Considered a pioneer of feminist art, she lectures, writes and publishes extensively on painting, feminist art, lesbian art, and the cultural representation of «difference.»

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

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«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

In this history, he claimed, we learn to see historical conceptions of God as symbolic representations of the human drama of cultural development.

Maybe that's because so much of our talk around the devil is shaped by cultural representations.

For a visual representation of the story of Fogo de Chão, watch «The Gaucho Way,» a documentary - style video shot through the eyes of real Fogo de Chão Brazilian gauchos and explores the restaurant's deep cultural roots in Southern Brazil.

The issue of English voice is not just about political representation but about the cultural recognition of Englishness.

In a cultural context, kente is more important than just a cloth and it is a visual representation of history and also a form of written language through weaving.

Participants were given additional background information in advance, explaining cultural, economic and historical factors meant to inform their representation of their country or organization.

Nowadays, in an effort to demonstrate and maintain leadership, make a mark, be part of the forerunners, or simply be noticed, many nations have updated their traditional model of political, commercial, and cultural representation to include diplomatic representation of their innovative skills, research achievements and potential, and of the quality of their highly qualified workforce.

Unfortunately, our cultural understanding of what «beauty» means is limited by the media's representations of women, which often pressure us into changing our appearance to what we think beauty should look like.

In early 2015, Jaden released an album titled This Is The Album, comprised of three tracks designed to promote his new - age collective MSFTSRepublic, which includes Beats 1's MSFTS Frequency radio show, hosted by Jaden Smith, an online «zine» of abstract cultural and political representations and a clothing line.

All things considered, Black Panther is both one of the best MCU movies yet and a watershed moment for big - budget tentpoles, when it comes to onscreen racial and cultural representation.

It's perplexing why Kaurismäki feels compelled to call upon racial passing and cultural appropriation as sources of momentary, cheap comedy, especially considering that these are significant issues in ongoing conversations about the representation of difference.

The 90th Academy Awards turned Sunday night's ceremony in Los Angeles into a celebration and exhortation of representation and inclusion, after a year marked by seismic cultural change in Hollywood that rippled across the world.

Her background is in screen, media and cultural studies and her research examines the representation of gender, queer and youth identities, digital culture, and new forms of screen media.

The piece proceeds in the mode of cultural studies by analysing the racial discourses surrounding the film: black rural folklorism, the representation of stereotypical black comic or menial roles in film, the commodification and packaging of black culture, and what Naremore calls «a chic, upscale «Africanism», redolent of café society, Broadway theatre, and the European avant - garde.»

As a product of the operatic cultural ideal, he is a multiplicitous representation.

Take the cultural cues in his work: the Rockwellian Americana he essays in Blue Velvet; the Bauhaus by way of Antoni Gaudi of Dune; or the late - Hitchcock identity puzzles he rejiggers in Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive — both commonly seen as satires of what they represent but more accurately described, perhaps, as simple, uncommented - upon representations of what a lower layer of consciousness might consider to be unadorned gospel.

With trans issues being at the forefront of the cultural moment, it's no surprise that cries for representation in film extend to trans and non-binary actresses as well.

A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.

The political import of interrogating the conception and representation of rape in film and film criticism is flagged in Russell's introduction, as she notes that to dismiss the question of rape «is to collude with the displacement and obscuring of violence that naturalizes it in our cultural imaginary» (p. 2).

Noir in tone, and a great representation of the newest generation of Chinese filmmakers, Trap Street is a bold story of who is really watching who that, while firmly embedded in the current cultural context of China, could happen to any one of us.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

Ideas of representation and cultural awareness are central to the concept of windows and mirrors, but critical reflection and thoughtful action are central to the idea of literature as a sliding glass door, a concept similar to windows in that both present different experiences, but sliding glass doors also can represent a change in perspective about the possibilities in the real world that a particular text helps the reader to consider.

Resources provide opportunities to: - work to a brief as per industry standard - explore existing radio dramas - listen to radio drama with focus on The Archers - explore the history of radio dramas - explore symbolic codes - explore cultural codes - explore technical codes - explore conventions of radio drama - explore style and structure of radio drama - explore representation in radio drama

The concepts covered are: * Camera techniques * Audio techniques * Editing techniques * Mise - en - scene codes * Narrative structure * Genre conventions * Representation * Ideologies * Cultural Spheres and Universes * Institutional Techniques * Audiences models and theories * A wide range of media theories broken into contextual areas into sociological and political This is vital tool in the lead up to the exam period, where it can be used as a revision guide for key concept development, and as a compliment to other units you are teaching.

They examine stereotypical representations of various social and cultural groups in relation to community health issues and concepts of participation, and success in physical activity.

Through opportunities to study the lives, cultures, values and beliefs of people in different places, students learn to appreciate and interpret different perspectives and to challenge stereotypical or prejudiced representations of social and cultural groups where they exist.

This indicates the extent of the difficulties already inherent in recruiting representation from different cultural and ethnic groups within school communities.

His dissertation committee consists of anthropologists whose areas of expertise compliment his current research agenda: Paul B. Garrett (Language Shift & Endangerment, Ideologies of Language), Inmaculada M. García - Sánchez (Language Socialization, Language & Culture in Educational Contexts), and Jayasinhji Jhala (Cultural Heritage Representation, Visual Communications).

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

Cultural Diversity E604: Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students for Special Education Eligibility (2000) E584: Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (1999) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E500: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Problems (1991) E500s: Reforzando a los alumnos Diversos Culturalmente y Lingüí con Aprendizaje (1999) E596: Five Strategies to Reduce Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education (2000) E520: Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted (1993) E601: Infusing Multicultural Content into the Curriculum for Gifted Students (2000) E589: The Implications of Culture on Developmental Delay (1999) E566: Reducing the Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education (1998) E544: Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises (1997) E614: Cultural Reciprocity Aids Collaboration with Families (2001)

A fine introduction to cultural studies, with excellent accounts of major theories of representation and identity.

From a pop - cultural perspective, representations of Victorian - era murderer Jack the Ripper in film and television are generally infused with fog, most notably Hitchcock's The Lodger.

The Book Fair team approaches relevant cultural mediators, for example the respective Goethe Institutes, and arranges a comprehensive representation of Germany abroad.

Information ranges from #fakenews and propaganda about how Mexico is nothing but drug cartels and Cubans are jailed for eating meat to misinformed representations of cultural habits and customs to more subtle but insidious articles in which all the facts might be correct on the surface but, being an outsider, the writer swaps out the nuances and complexities that make up real cultures for confused generalizations and stereotypes that promote subcsoncious racism.

Contestants from each country compete to offer the best representation of the Central American coast using the categories of cultural costumes, swimwear and evening gowns.

Set in over 100 hectares of land, this park includes representations of Indonesia's 27 provinces and their outstanding cultural and architectural characteristics.