Sentences with phrase «interrogates cultural representations»

There is an expansive body of scholarly work that interrogates cultural representations of evil or morally ambiguous lawyers, but our line of inquiry in this article will trace the metaphor of the female madwoman or monster as it circulates within representations of women lawyers in popular film.

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The political import of interrogating the conception and representation of rape in film and film criticism is flagged in Russell's introduction, as she notes that to dismiss the question of rape «is to collude with the displacement and obscuring of violence that naturalizes it in our cultural imaginary» (p. 2).

Jaret Vadera is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose work interrogates and complicates the relationships between power, memory, and representations of other spaces.

Though she is known as a painter, recently her work has engaged with museum collections in which she has creatively interrogated the history and representation of the African diaspora and looked at the role of museums in discussion around cultural histories.