The phrase
"cultural zeitgeist" refers to the prevailing ideas, beliefs, and values that shape and influence a society or a particular culture during a specific period of time. It represents the general attitudes and interests that are influential and widely shared among people in that particular context.
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Julius Shulman, Photograph of Case Study House # 22 (Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, 1959 — 60), 1960 October 7, 2007 — January 6, 2008 Birth of the Cool examines the broad
cultural zeitgeist of «cool» that influenced the visual arts, graphic and decorative arts, architecture, music, and film produced in California in the 1950s and early 1960s.
After the success of the made - for - British - TV movie The Naked Civil Servant, which was based on his memoir, Crisp is commissioned by a small theater in Manhattan's Bowery to perform a one - man show; word - of - mouth spreads about his unfiltered wit and shrewd observations about the gay community and
cultural zeitgeist at large, which lands him gigs on late - night TV chat shows via his newly acquired agent (Swoosie Kurtz).
Probably not the most expected avenue
for cultural zeitgeist, the local auto shop has just become as poignant as any art gallery — all thanks to one, nudey and naughty page turner.
What this will mean for the future of the concept is imminently debatable and yet entirely in the lap of our
present cultural zeitgeist.
Patel will play Steve Banerjee, a Bombay - born immigrant who turned an LA dive bar into a multimillion -
dollar cultural zeitgeist sensation, while -LSB-...]
It exploded onto the video game scene to inspire the
pop cultural zeitgeist and panic business executives into creating the best imitation they could.
These works weave together lettering and text throughout the image to create rhythm and visual vibrations whose psychedelic associations tapped into the
counter cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s and 70s.
The Saw Tooth Wave continues the artist's interest in the ways that technologies and
cultural zeitgeists imbue our experience of the world, taking its title from a type of audio wave form common to the sounds produced by synthesisers from the 1960s onwards.
Prince went on to appropriate and re-present images from advertising that captured the
American cultural zeitgeist: the Marlboro Cowboy, Cadillacs, soft porn, motorcycle gangs.
Deftly mixing pop culture and political satire, former Juxtapoz cover artist Eric Yahnker serves as a virtual seismometer of the
current cultural zeitgeist.
We're thinking about
the cultural Zeitgeist, and whatever that encompasses is usually incorporated into the ultimate design, but I don't feel like it's any different because we have technology.
A brand tie - in that manages to tap into
the cultural zeitgeist can go a long way, as can a few timely and well - managed social media campaigns.
Landing smack in the middle of
the cultural zeitgeist was a happy accident for ABC Family, a network known for its provocative teen fare, like Pretty Little Liars.
We can even thank AI for HBO's hit TV series, Westworld, a sci - fi thriller about an amusement park populated with AI - powered robots called «hosts,» that dominated
the cultural zeitgeist this past fall.
This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of
the cultural zeitgeist.
Dr. Martha Lauzen, the study's author, told Variety, «
The cultural zeitgeist at the moment is very concerned with providing more people with more opportunities, but the numbers have yet to move.
Hunter has a knack for finding companies embedded in
the cultural zeitgeist, and his talk provides a revealing look at how he determines if a brand has what it takes to succeed and, once involved, how he helps the brand then understand its strengths and weaknesses.
Vegetarianism did not enter
the cultural zeitgeist of the West until the 16th and 17th centuries.
But one of the reasons why it was so successful was that it tapped into the political, social and
cultural zeitgeist.
Post Marie Kondo's decluttering bible, The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up (which we talked about last year as a wellness trend to watch) and helped introduce the philosophy to the mainstream in 2014, nowadays, minimalism is part of
the cultural zeitgeist.
But most of the before and after photos in
the cultural zeitgeist do.
Seen on the arms of serious style icons including Rihanna, Sarah Jessica Parker and Sharon Stone, Fendi purses are always on the leading edge of the world's
cultural zeitgeist.
Earning back its budget several times over, the much - watched, much - quoted film quickly etched a place in
the cultural zeitgeist alongside Animal House and The Blues Brothers as modern marvels taking funnymen from «Saturday Night Live» to heights and distances that weekly sketch comedy TV couldn't.
With Wonder Woman back in
the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.
The Sixth Sense was a sucker punch of a movie; I didn't see the quality or
the cultural zeitgeist coming.
An MGM short subject from 1940 entitled Hollywood: Style Center of the World (which appears as an extra on the Warner Archive DVD release of The Women) does a succinct job of capturing
this cultural zeitgeist at its zenith.
With strong buzz, performances and reviews, the Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz unique relationship comedy seems to have tapped into
the cultural zeitgeist, and will continue expanding heading in to the holiday weekend.»
In a year that has seen attempts to silence many women, from sitting senators to sexual assault victims - and as Time magazine salutes «the silence breakers» as most deserving of recognition in 2017 - «The Last Jedi» feels utterly of
the cultural zeitgeist.
The husband and wife screenwriters caught the public's attention like few independent filmmakers ever had with 2004's Napoleon Dynamite, a quirky, Jared - directed high school tale that instantly entered
the cultural zeitgeist.
What is great about this particular time period is that people know what hoarding is, it's such a part of
our cultural zeitgeist now that kids growing up in that kind of home no longer need to feel alone.
Chalk it up to
cultural zeitgeist.
At PlayStation we believe that gamers come first; that developers are the heart and soul of the industry; that innovation, intelligence, and emotion are central to games... which themselves are driving
the cultural zeitgeist.
Are there American painters who captured
the cultural zeitgeist the way our greatest novelists and musicians have?
Performance artist Ryan McNamara explores the way that people understand themselves within their bodies and
the cultural zeitgeist through dance and movement.
Beyoncé's now - famous lyric off of the #Lemonade album, «He better call Becky with the good hair,» has put discrimination against black women who sport their natural hair front and center in
the cultural zeitgeist.
While this push and pull is one of the draws of Pettibon's work, the main attraction is certainly
the cultural zeitgeist he captures in his drawings.
Like Neel, she shows us how the intimate details of the interiors, and the fashion, can be signs of
a cultural Zeitgeist.
I'm not certain I'm on board with that last prediction: Twitter has a big lead, a powerful platform, and a prominent place in
the cultural zeitgeist (Google «horses and bayonets» this morning for a prime example).
And ultimately, what is a better time for attorneys to weigh in on
the cultural zeitgeist of our country if not during nationally publicized court trials?
Sometimes, our print and online coverage converge to capture
the cultural zeitgeist.