Sentences with phrase «current film culture»
Our current film culture is littered with movies about well - off middle - aged men going through a midlife crisis because they aren't part of the 1 % of the 1 %.
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She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.
«I think this film highlights where our current dating culture stands: how it can be good for some and problematic for others.
Given the way Black Panther embraces diversity, and given how heavily the Wakandan culture itself plays a role, it would be almost negligent for the film to not address current issues of race and economic disparity in some fashion.
It's difficult to think of a film more out of step with the current culture than Eli Roth's Death Wish.
The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.
Another thing that was a bit off - putting (and I mean this in a strictly historical and filmcraft way), the film seemed to go out of its way to stamp our current morals, mores and politically - correct culture to events supposedly taking place in 18th - Century France (with minorities holding high positions in the Parisian Court and even an openly gay character introduced).
Current research interests are focused on the history of the New Queer Cinema, the status of film festivals as loci of film culture, and an inquiry into shifting modes of documentary in the internet age.
The premise fits in with current teen culture and the film walks a fine line of ridiculous and fun.
The implications about the current state of online culture in the film is disturbing, perhaps even a bit hyperbolic, but what better than a B movie cheapie to spell out the ugliness of social media in both the genre and the social platform's gruesome, unforgiving terms?
The constrictions ensure the archetypal family structure is flat and overly traditional compared to current pop culture additions in film and video games.
It's difficult to think of a film more out of step with the current culture than Eli Roth's Death Wish remake.
It's difficult to think of a film more out of step with the current culture than Eli Roth's remake of Michael Winner's 1974 action thriller Death Wish.
Students absorb their chosen culture by studying films and current media in their chosen language and tasting the culture's culinary pleasures in a language - controlled setting in a small town along the Mississippi River.
In 2000, she shifted her interests to film and video, advertising and internet - based images, exploring the current culture overladen with pictures.
Hershman Leeson wrote all of her own scripts, and she directed and produced her films as well, bringing to the screen not only her innovative computer - science fantasies — anticipating our current digitally dominated world and obsession with artificial intelligence — but she has made documentaries as well: Strange Culture (2007) brings to bizarre life the twisted story of artist Steve Kurtz and his arrest by the FBI for being a would - be bio-terrorist.
An American living in France, Cameron Jamie uses music, photography, drawing, film, and video to investigate the quirky, ritualistic activities that are part of contemporary pop culture (wrestling and craftslike mask - making being among his current interests).
By taking some time to look at a painting, installation, or film, we have a chance to gain insight not only into the art but also into our current culture and daily lives.
Wyle's imagery references current affairs and the media, as well as a diverse range of sources including ancient wall paintings, art history and film, celebrity culture, even football.
Daniel Pinchbeck, the executive producer and author of the 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, starts the film detailing his quest to shake free of a depression that dogged him in his late 20s when his disconnection from current culture caused him to become despondent.