Sentences with phrase «identity as an outsider»

When she's up there, she's flying — she transcends her identity as an outsider / victim.

Literally tearing apart these books — widely published arbiters of authenticity — and reconstructing them into abstract two - dimensional works for the wall is, as Jones writes, «a means of creating a medium that communicates this feeling of being on the outside, as well as providing a possible resolution to the search for a place of inclusion and identity as an outsider.»

Not exact matches

Jason Statham (Redemption, Parker) stars as ex-undercover DEA agent Phil Broker, the outsider with a new identity who relocates to his deceased wife's small home town in Louisiana after a major drug bust reveals his true identity to the motorcycle - gang kingpin (Zito, Jimmy Hollywood) whose son ends up dead.

These three world premieres stood out among several stories about Native identities and cultural positionings at TIFF, even as some perennial attendees griped that this year's more streamlined festival had disproportionately sidelined independent filmmakers and outsider perspectives.

Whatever new identity he may claim, there's no way to escape the wrath of «mysterious strangers» like Rodney Cole (Frank Langella, chilling as always); whatever alliances he may form with outsiders, he represents too great a danger to them to be indulged for long.

Even Fox's X-Men franchise has maintained a steady identity characterized by its large casts, themes of mutants as outsiders, and a hard - to - follow continuity.

The exhibition is structured in chapters whose themes are the man - eating outsider or non-human; the relationship with others and construction of an individual and group identity through a dual movement of incorporation and rejection; the body as an organism capable of transformation, and which feeds on and feeds others; eroticism and all - consuming passion; violence and horror; ritual and sacrifice; and images from childhood, derived from tales and legends.

Basquiat looked for a new sense of identity in the culture of diaspora, even as the art world rewrote his story as the traditional rise and fall of an outsider.

The apparent contrast between object and environment comes to represent an immigrant's hybrid identity, forever linked to his native land but now as an outsider.