Sentences with word «fictionalization»

Alex Ross Perry's movie is about two male literary narcissists, a young novelist named Philip (Jason Schwartzman) and an acclaimed, formerly prolific novelist named Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce), a transparent fictionalization of Philip Roth.

Her works intermingle truths and fictionalizations in order to question our ideas of greatness, singularity, and who and what make «history.»

You can credit Chris Chibnall for not embellishing his teleplay with fictionalizations, but when the material is as dull as this, he's practically neglectful for not spicing it up somehow.

The exposure of the specificities of context allied to the process of fictionalization makes visible the self - reflexiveness of the work.

I asked for referrals to any editors who had experience with Biblical fictionalizations.

A more effective and interesting fictionalization would have portrayed Fitzgerald as one of the pathological types Kaczynski describes in his manifesto: consumed with «surrogate activities,» over-socialized, politically liberal, and guilt - ridden.

Jarecki uncomfortably straddles that line between true crime story and total fictionalization, getting lost in the gap in between and jamming as many elements as possible into this film causes very few of them to register.

One problem is the difference between the plausible fictionalizations and the implausible ones, including an entire ending chase sequence that's obviously concocted, as well as comeuppance to the plutocrat cheapskate.

Such a shame, as the events that led to the landmark ruling would have been interesting enough in and of themselves without the need for gross fictionalizations and moral posturing.

Lee Daniels» The Butler is easy to watch and kind of enjoy, but uninspired fictionalization makes it fall short of its lofty goals.

Warren Adler is best known for The War of the Roses, his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce turned into the Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated dark comedy hit starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.

In God's House is a life - like fictionalization of an important historical event — the worldwide clergy sex abuse scandal.

While his work deals primarily with the representation of desire and structural violence, Rosen, born in 1963, has created an artistic universe that treacherously undermines the normative implications of identities and identifications through fictionalization, irony, and revision.

Put aside ones that are promising and plan to make the time for getting client approval, performing fictionalization, and ensuring you are using top design and writing standards.

While fictionalization and work done solely by the resume writer are required, there are some key bits of advice that we can share to help TORI hopefuls compete to showcase their skills and win:

You know, people who like young adult fantasy or Biblical fictionalizations, or maybe even a little romance.

The fantasy includes the degree to which Hitch fixated on his blonde stars (the movie may actually soft pedal that; therein lies the fantasy) and further encounters with Ed Gein (Michael Wincott)-- Psycho, of course, being Robert Bloch's fictionalization of Gein's murders.

Though he often deserted Manhattan, he always returned — and if he seemed at times not to like New York City, he seemed not to like any place very much: not the Albany where his Dutch grandparents had settled, the Boston where he courted his long - suffering wife, the Pittsfield farm he could never make pay, or the island paradise where he stayed just four weeks before fleeing (if his fictionalization in Typee is an accurate guide) in fear of being raped and eaten by cannibals.

He sees nothing wrong with a fictionalization of events to get the basic point across.

A fictionalization of Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, Southside With You is a film that straddles several lines.

Based on the controversial best - selling novel by Anonymous (Joe Klein), this fictionalization of Bill Clinton's first bid for the Democratic presidential nomination provides an illuminating, insightful, and frequently hilarious look at the harsh realities of presidential politics.

In this fictionalization, Bening is single, which is a variation on the married but secretly gay life his father (and Plummer's character) led.

As Aileen's lover Selby, a fictionalization of the aforementioned Ty, Christina Ricci was accurately characterized in Theron's Oscar speech as the «unsung hero» of Monster: Though Selby personifies Aileen's salvation, Ricci drops any pretense of precociousness in the early going, a move that would seem as humbling for her as gaining weight was for the slender Theron.

Lords of Dogtown is the fictionalization of Peralta's interesting if overlong documentary Dogtown and Z - Boys, which detailed how the skateboard fad evolved from a combination of a lack of good surfing, the invention of urethane wheels, and a drought that created backyard terror - domes of skater - bliss in forcing California residents to drain their swimming pools.

Though the credits confess to some fictionalization, little dramatic license seems to have been taken for entertainment purposes.

It's never made clear whether the fictionalization Sheil is preparing for is a real project; Greene, after all, is the director of that movie too, and he includes several excerpts from this tacky melodrama, which frankly never quite looks like something an accomplished director like himself could really be responsible for.

Fictionalization of TV series classics, illustrated books, DRM removal, and eBook lines are telltale signs that eBooks this year will diversify and grow into fruition for mature readers.

There are retellings of Jane Austen novels and fictionalizations of the lives of humans connected with novels.

She focuses in particular on Hollywood production methods and special effects, where ideas transfer between states of materialization, fictionalization and digitalization.

Such overlay of memory and fictionalization of narrative are characteristic elements in much of Dean's work.

My artistic practice can be described as a process of fictionalization.

The exhibition Sie sagen, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer (They say, where there's smoke, there's fire) brings together artists whose works and / or fictionalizations of their own authorship evoke narrations that are accompanied by or deal with rumors.

Many of his past works have focused on the fictionalization of Asian Americans as portrayed in Hollywood cinema.

A «derivative work» is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.