Sentences with phrase «frank depiction of»

«Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship» details around a dozen international episodes of erasure and exclusion over the past half century, in which the frank depiction of queer people and sexualities rubbed up against church, state, and individual bigotry, resulting in physically and psychologically violent acts of censorship.

When photographer and film director Larry Clark published his first photobook in 1971, it wasn't Tulsa's frank depiction of drug - use, sexuality, and violence that caused a stir.

Instead, her images are raw and candid in their frank depiction of a community devastated by the AIDS crisis.

«[Commissario Guido Brunetti] is the perfect hero for Leon's minimal, almost lyrical writing style... As usual in Leon's novels, the frank depiction of the darker aspects of life in modern Venice sits right alongside some of the most enchanting descriptions of the city in contemporary fiction.»

Five years later, her release from jail forces him to confront the past in this frank depiction of sexual abuse.

But I was surprised at the movie's daring, at its frank depiction of the Bush - like president as the clueless puppet of his staff.

Fifty years after Guess Who's Coming to Dinner jolted moviegoers with its frank depiction of interracial romance, moviemakers still find potency in the topic, with new films Get Out and A United Kingdom exploring the ramifications of diverse love.

The final instalment in Noel Clarke's «hood» trilogy arrives 10 years after the first, 2006's Kidulthood, which earned praise and caused controversy with its frank depiction of drugs, guns and...

Yet somehow, despite the frank depiction of PTSD, the film is also more fun than almost anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Given its Brooklyn setting and frank depiction of sex, the specter of becoming «the next Lena Dunham» shadows Desiree Akhavan, the 29 - year - old Iranian - American filmmaker behind «Appropriate Behavior.»

Below Her Mouth attempts provocation and frank depictions of lesbian sex, but it forgets the emotion in its love story.

Gustave Courbet may have drawn on frank depictions of nudes and landscapes, and wars gave photography a greater urgency.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., in 1989, canceled a Mapplethorpe retrospective that was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, fearing political backlash because of the exhibition's frank depictions of homosexual behavior.

It can be displayed alongside his earlier black - and - white portraits of individuals and almost unbearably frank depictions of family groups, or with his serene, unpopulated New Pictures from Paradise jungle images of the 1990s, but each of these also deserves proper consideration.

Not exact matches

For a film that was apparently intended for families or all - age audiences, this one is surprisingly frank in its depiction of early teen sexuality.

The series created by and starring Frankie Shaw is smart, sexy, frank about sexual abuse, and sharp in its depiction of a struggling single mother whose ambitions and wit try to push through the burdens, realities and confinements of her working - class Boston life.

They also praised Mr. Levine's unabashed use of poetry as a vehicle for radical social criticism, noting his frank explorations of the nature of masculinity and his cleareyed depictions of working - class lives and the immigrant Jewish experience.»

Although this film contains no depictions of sexual activity beyond some brief kissing, there are frequent, frank and often lengthy discussions on self - pleasuring, sexual arousal, the inappropriate manhandling of women and the intention to copulate.

Set in 1991 amidst the beginnings of civil war in Yugoslavia, this is a brutal film, in every right way: an antidote to the CNN - ification of war news, here is a frank, realistic depiction of total, practically apocalyptic war, one in which civilians and journalists are targeted and an entire nation is laid ruin.

The portraits are provocative and frank, and are also linked by their expressionistic depictions of flesh and skin.

It is a startling piece — the blocky, almost childlike writing clashing with the frank nudity — and could be read, perhaps, as a depiction of digital space at its most brusque, clogged with pornography, comments, and orders.

Sampling images from pornographic films and fashion photography, Liz Neal's paintings and installations challenge viewers with frank and livid depictions of carnality.