Sentences with phrase «cultural touchstone for»

Even more so than those films, however, Black Panther has become a cultural touchstone for moviegoers, and, hopefully, a wake up call for Hollywood, which has traditionally shied away from diversity in film.

In addition, the omnipresence of the mass media in our society has engendered a seemingly ever - widening primary source, a cross cultural touchstone for today's artists.

The works of HP Lovecraft have come to form a cultural touchstone for fans of horror and Victoriana alike.

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

Comedy Central's president stated: «Through his unique voice and vision, «The Daily Show» has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come.

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Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

To me, this approach is the touchstone for assessing the difference between fact and fiction in history The core question is: Does the description of ancient people's behavior ring true when we compare it to the way contemporary people behave in a similar cultural area?

It's not merely a relic of a time when near - nudity could be plentiful in a PG - rated film, but a historical record: this particular cultural touchstone is said to be responsible for ushering in the enduring popularity of the wet - T - shirt contest.

These Russian cultural touchstones engage in the performance of dignified ritual, emanating a want for recognition, one thing never truly received from their European neighbors.

Early in her career, Myers established herself as a great cultural and community resource for Native - content projects being produced by networks and studios including: Monsters of God (Plan B / TNT); Magnificent Seven (MGM / Columbia Pictures); Wind River (Weinstein Co.); The Lone Ranger (Walt Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer Films); And, Apocalypto (Icon Ent / Touchstone).

There is solipsism as well as grandeur in these doom - and - gloom spectacles, but there is also tremendous feeling — and in «Donnie Darko,» that feeling manifests itself most powerfully in an abiding reverence for the cultural touchstones of its moment.

Other cultural touchstones don't get off scot - free either — there are jabs at the highbrow (French theorist Roland Barthes), the populist (Justin Bieber) and the likes of Michael Fassbender, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner for donning cowls for cash.

It's the perfect kind of manufactured reality for a guy who doesn't make documentaries that tell the truth — he makes propaganda films in hopes of breaking the population free from its cultural touchstones.

Home to some of the world's most celebrated cultural touchstones, Central Europe was built for exploration.

Sauna is a cultural touchstone, a focal point for life, serving as a base for births and coming - of - age rituals - and is traditionally fully nude.

It is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

It is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.The Whitechapel Gallery does not own a Collection, but has a dedicated gallery for opening up public and private collections, including five displays from the British Council Collection from April 2009 — May 2010; four displays from The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, from June 2010 — May 2011; five displays from the Government Art Collection, from June 2011 — September 2012; four displays from the Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from September 2012 — September 2013; four displays drawn from member museums of the Contemporary Art Society from September 2013 — August 2014 and four displays of works from the V - A-C Foundation collection from September 2014 — August 2015.

-- The Gallery is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

Never performed in the Bard's lifetime, though it seems to be enjoying a revival today, «Timon» functions for Drennen as a cultural touchstone that seems at once familiar and not really well known.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

The film earned Julien a cult following and its focus on a Black, Queer experience within the American cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 3cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 3Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 30 years.

Their unassuming original intentions afforded them the unaffected nature that ultimately allows for their endurance and autonomy — as both specific cultural record and universal touchstone.

After the Smithsonian's G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's film A Fire in My Belly from the exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Wojnarowicz became a household name and a cultural touchstone, to the point where Vanity Fair can now glibly claim, «Right - wing America will be begging for David Wojnarowicz...» and expect its readers to get the joke.

In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.