Sentences with phrase «folktales as»

Jamie Tehrani heard multiple versions of the folktale as a child and became fascinated by this question.

I look at the reuse of the Spanish Civil War (era, time, whatever) and the mystery of the folktale as an excuse to do another creature feature.

Inspired by the Story of Shim Cheong, a Korea folktale as well as by Shakespeare's Ophelia, Lee JeeYoung made this installation by painting paper lotus and flooding the room with fog and carbonic ice in order to create a mystic atmosphere.

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Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.

Explaining death as a magical curse that entered the world because someone ate a forbidden piece of fruit is not even an explanation — it is a childish folktale.

On property his creativity inspires events, such as Folktale Chef Duels, as well as a chef's garden and along with his team - make Folktale Winery a California culinary destination.

Science Punk blogger Swain connects the undead dots from Haitian folktales to CIA mind - control research as he hunts for definitive proof of zombiism.

«Evil Queen» by Nathaniel Gold In the classic Scandinavian folktale «The Twelve Wild Ducks,» also known as «The Twelve Brothers» in Grimms» Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter - in - law's beauty.

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6 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer A Jewish folktale set in modern - day Manhattan, this engrossing drama from Israeli writer - director Joseph Cedar (Footnote) features a career - topping performance from Richard Gere as a graying, fraying influence peddler whose generosity and opportunism are almost impossible to distinguish from each other.

As it draws to a close and the forest's sinister forces begin to reveal themselves, our characters descend deeper into hysteria, and the true breadth of the story and these actors» talents bubble to the surface for a superb, ensemble - driven folktale that chills to the bone.

Narrated by Alfre Woodard, John Henry is the longest short on the entire Blu - ray, clocking in at just under 11 minutes, but it's exceedingly colorful and snappily paced, even as the adaptation of this well - known folktale reaches its tragic conclusion.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's five - part miniseries, Penance — an episodic, small - screen work that is only being categorized as a movie because it's being screened in theaters — has a simple, pliable setup, pitched partway between folktale and cold - case procedural.

Join Sam Howlett and returning guest Jenna Hobbs as they dissect Robert Eggers» The VVitch: A New - England Folktale.

It's Kevin Costner - as - Robin Hood levels of comically - horrific, and, just like Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Great Wall is an attempt to grit - up and culturally contextualize some ridiculous rural folktale.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

Set in 1630, New England before the Salem Witch Trials and subtitled as «A New England Folktale,» the film is unsettling and transfixing as one watches forbidding evil encroach upon a pastoral family of faith and the suspicion of the innocent escalating.

This semester, Lavender's students will make comparisons between the Moldovan folktales and their own, which follows discussions comparing forms of government, religions, and architecture and learning that Brittany Spears is as popular in Eastern Europe as she is in the United States.

«We were able to do what we do as teachers,» says theater arts teacher Judy Dove, who had students in her puppetry class make Asian - style rod puppets and write and perform folktales based on Popoviciu's Everest climb.

Then challenge students to work together to create a new short folktale, using the examples they heard and read as models.

Their faces brighten as they read responses tothe folktale they posted the day before.

The folktale «Half - Chicken» is about a chicken hatched with only half a body, one leg, one wing, one eye, and only half as...

After the lessons, students can write their own contemporary version of a folktale and present it as a stopmotion or Claymation film.

Many kinds of traditional literature — folktales, legends, myths, fables, as well as short stories, poetry, and scenes from plays — enable and reward close reading.

Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual collection of Hawaiian folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.

as Amazon's book description notes, adding: «It was Paul Bunyan, of course, America's finest, fastest, funniest lumberman and favorite folktale hero!»

The story, in which a magical bowl disrupts the lives of an elderly man and his cat, is just as good, smoothly blending folktale conventions with touches of magic and a dusting of comedy.

Weaving together the story of their life with China's recent political history, as well as traditional folktales and myths, the Kitchen God illuminates the most impenetrable aspects the human condition.

«Several Norwegian folktales are seamlessly integrated into the fast - paced, lyrically narrated story, which features a protagonist as stalwart and fearless as any fairy - tale hero.»

Wolves have long been symbols in folktales and literature all over the world, from ancient myths, such as those of Native peoples in America, to the European story of «Little Red Riding Hood.»

Folktales and myth and cautionary stories and contemporary hardship and impossibilities and things I plain made up as I went along.

As a new writer, Smith provided me with great resources and guidance to market my book Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale.

Part love story, part mystery, part horror, this is as much about the twisting hand of fate as it is about the mutability of folktales.

The author decided to leave the narrator anonymous, as is the tradition in many folktales.

Just as reading a Russian folktale inspired her to write The Snow Child, so too did the concept for Eowyn Ivey's second novel arise from a piece of literature - this time on the fragile pages of a rare book she discovered at the bookshop where she worked.

This lively, humorous retelling of a traditional tale in an unusual and modern setting engendered the usual concerns about cultural stereotyping, the provision of sourcing (always an issue for folktales), and the portrayal of a generic «Africa» — as well as plenty of admiration.

The outline itself was very rough and written with an adult as the main character (MC), which is often the case with very old folktales.

Siberian cats are popular in Russian folktales and for some 1,000 years that they have been known in the country, they were considered as champions by household owners and shopkeepers because they keep mice away.

It is hard to define the story of Kebo Iwa as a folktale.

Like the folktales that we listened to as bedtime stories, the Taoism / Buddhism practice and values that were passed down from family.

The mixture of this in a horror survival game works rather well, with the spirit illustrations coming across as very creepy thanks to their Japanese folktale inspirations, and they integrate with the style of the game very well.

Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales.

The photographic tableaux created as part of the series will be exhibited in an upcoming exhibition, Jewish Folktales Retold: The Artist as Maggid, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, starting 28 September 2017.

Day mines these themes for their symbolism as he explores the psychological, sexual, mythic, and moral subplots of folktales.

«Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid.»

She poses questions related to memory as read through the body, through folklores and folktales, through home and homeland, and through cultural ritual or practice.

«Pile up» — the accumulation of the history of her images / Dating as far back as our earliest folktales, advocates for mythical behavior.