Sentences with phrase «genre traditions even»

Kudos, then, to producer / star Natalie Portman and director Gavin O'Connor (Pride and Glory, Warrior) for keeping their sights steady and delivering a handsome post-Civil War western that's enamoured of genre traditions even as it offers a revisionist riff.

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As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

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The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

A new plein - air tradition was initiated by Corot and others from the Barbizon School; the German symbolist painter Caspar David Friedrich injected his landscapes with a new form of romanticism; and the genre was taken to even higher and more extraordinary levels by the English genius JMW Turner.