Sentences with phrase «historical context of the film»

There are also documentaries produced exclusive for this disc: a half - hour retrospective on the film that includes new interviews with Hopkins, Fox, Merchant, Ivory, and Christopher Reeve, who also show up in the slightly shorter other new featurette, which focuses on the historical context of the film's 1930s setting.

Students study Senesh's poetry, letters and diary entries as they consider themes such as adolescent voice, heroism, and activism, as well as the historical context of the film.

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The communist presence and references of the Holocaust provide historical context, but an exact date for the film remains unknown.

Finally, the most interesting feature to me was a behind the scenes look at the film that explains the historical and biographical context of Jane Austen and her writing.

Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao - hsien's («Flight of the Red Balloon») first film in eight years, The Assassin (Nie yin niang), may initially seem out of character for a director whose previous work has been in realistic social dramas set in a contemporary historical context.

Next comes some historical context for the film's subject matter in a 1948 New York Sun article in which reports of longshoremen racketeering are flatly (yet dubiously) denied by union president Joe Ryan, one of the inspirations for Lee J. Cobb's character.

Criterion continues to forge new ground by carefully coordinating deluxe releases of foreign and classic films, beefed up with bonus materials that superbly place the films and their respective makers in proper historical context.

So Dunkirk, a historical film about war that feels like anything but a war film, was a bit of a surprise in the context of Nolan's filmography.

To put the extremes in context, the historical likelihood of a film winning Best Picture plus 10 other Oscars is equal to that of a film winning Best Picture plus zero other Oscars.

I love how you provide historical context for it within the film noir genre and discuss the movie's place as the third adaptation of Dashiell Hammett.

Conquest of Space is a lesser effort in Pal's canon, but the film deserves (and needs) some supplemental material that place it in historical context, both for its forward thinking, and of the clichés that were part and parcel for the era.

The fact that we don't know what her mom stood for beyond a basic need to protect her family makes the film's lack of historical context troubling.

After battling several problems regarding the film's eerie theme, historical context and shooting location, Eggers and co. finally finished his directorial debut, the main subject of which is about witches (his favorite area of knowledge since childhood) and the horror they bestow upon a farmer family.

It's not a lot of material, but it provides not just a fine look at the production itself but also good background and context on the real historical people and events depicted in the film.

In this third lesson students analyze the film within an historical context of lynching and the early struggles against Jim Crow and racism.

As much as I love the context that video can create or elaborate on and the immediacy and seeming relevance of watching a film, I want to say that there is something important in touching documents, in creating narratives and imagines through the imagination, in using different media — media that has weight and heft — to round out a historical picture.

In the second lesson, students will get a better sense of the historical context of Emmett Till's life and death as they examine the choices made by people highlighted in the film.

The exhibition incorporated a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, and other forms of popular culture and prompts rich discussions about the contested ways that African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts.

Featuring five of eight computer - animated films that comprise the artist's seminal Poemfield series (1966 - 1971), as well as a small selection of related computer graphic prints on paper, this presentation illuminates a significant pillar of the gallery's ongoing mission to re-engage historical work within contemporary contexts.

Upcoming at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Posing Beauty in African American Culture April 27 — July 26 This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

The show will take place in the historical context of the Essanay Silent Film Museum — where Charlie Chaplin's Tramp films were produced, and where silent films are on show weekly.

Unsettled is intended to place into a historical context the recent controversy surrounding the removal of a film by David Wojnarowicz (1954 - 1992) from the exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Spurred by activists, members of Congress objected to the film's imagery, and museum officials reacted by removing it from view.

Evans's 1938 book, American Photographs, inspired the show's title as well as the design of its catalogue; ephemera, films, and photographs by the original FSA documentarians will provide historical context.

In her films, Hao has fused her own documentary footages, excerpts from TV dance programmes and dance scenes from war - themed movies to discuss the concept of «dancing in a historical context».

Posing Beauty examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

Posing Beauty in African American Culture Through July 27, 2014 Ticketed, VMFA members free Accompanying catalogue Posing Beauty in African American Culture examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

This film uses some important historical moments to learn about the context of current systemic racism and to inform current right action as helping professionals and citizens of the world.