Sentences with phrase «fascination with violence»

Bataille also shared Masson's fascination with violence and eroticism.

Hogs Killing a Snake reveals his fascination with the violence of nature and the struggle for survival.

The gigantic Brigitte Nielsen is a less than convincing baddie, there's an OTT fascination with violence and, worst of all, the laughs just don't come.

Director Antoine Fuqua brings his usual fascination with violence to this remake of the iconic...

Director Antoine Fuqua brings his usual fascination with violence to this remake of the iconic 1960 Western, itself a remake of the masterful 1954 Japanese original Seven Samurai.

Americans» fascination with guns is a grave sickness of its society, as is it's fascination with violence in general.

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He notes that they are usually young males, who meticulously plan and act alone and that their longstanding fascination with weapons and violence send them to carry out their heinous acts in public places, usually during daylight.

But like Cruz many mass killers exhibit a common set of traits that include depression, troubled family backgrounds, a fascination with guns and violence and aspirations of becoming a soldier, said Peter Langman, a psychologist and author of two books on school shooters.

We humans seem have a fascination with war, battle, bloodshed, violence and killing our enemies, don't we?

Derrida's différance provides a cheerful example, as does Michel Foucault's more troubling fascination with madness, violence, and sex.

To be sure, the sources and manifestations of violence are complex But what do we make of competitiveness, the cult of winning, the armoring of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination with it?

In the northwest suburbs, at Buffalo Grove High School, 15 - year - old Wes Duvall, a quiet student with an air of concern, said a fascination with guns and violence prevails among his classmates, and even he is enamored of some of the hardware he sees.

Director Antoine Fuqua once more demonstrates his fascination with codes of masculine aggression, extreme violence and not much else.

Wielding an almost Peckinpahesque fascination with the psychology and effects of violence, Saulnier has crafted an intense, gory thrillride that doesn't let up over the course of its runtime.

The episodic narrative that follows, in which Johnny explores his gifts, investigating incidents of escalating significance, is really just a vehicle for Cronenberg to mine his fascination with bodily horror, with a deadpan approach to violence that occasionally erupts into spectacle.

Similar to «Death Race 2000» from Paul Bartel and Roger Corman, «The Hunger Games» examines the media's fascination with bloody violence and vicarious emotion when there's nothing at stake for the viewer and interviewer.

Film criticism seemingly doesn't get more banal than commenting upon Martin Scorsese's «fascination» with violence.

Attorneys for 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, have cited his chronic battle with mental illness, family trauma and a fascination with guns and violence that was reflected in his social media profile and school disciplinary history.

His best known series «Lynch Fragment» is an ongoing project on which he has worked, variously, in response to racial violence (1963 - 67); as a form of activism against the Vietnam War (1973 - 74); and as a reconceived means of recognizing admirable individuals and exploring a personal fascination with African culture (1978 --RRB-.

At the core is Gaillard's fascination with the aging and crumbling edifices held up as inevitable sites of utopian failure within landscapes of historical violence.

Terror and Beauty will explore the two artists» shared fascination with the human form in relation to the violence of the Second World War and other key events from the 20th century.

Lorca is not hiding his fascination by classical painters such as Rembrandt and Diego Velazquez and that influence can be observed in his Baroque influenced work which is dealing with sensitive issues such as violence, sensuality, innocence and childhood.