Sentences with phrase «ironic detachment»

How are we to achieve this unlikely combination of ironic detachment and social commitment?

I'm kidding, but only kind of, which is the best way to kid, because I can both inform you about WWE Fastlane as planned while also hiding behind ironic detachment as often as I have to.

This divide between smart cinema's aims and its context causes a political disconnect that I would argue even ironic detachment can not overcome.

American Smart Cinema considers how reference, quotation and ironic detachment define the sensibility of the cycle.

Stillman's ironic detachment towards his protagonists (or perhaps we're actually supposed to find them quirky and interesting?)

No, Franco doesn't handle sincerity especially well — he's better at ironic detachment — but I don't think he harms the role in any notable way.

«American Dreamz» isn't nearly as good as «Strangelove,» perhaps because it lacks its merciless ironic detachment.

When the world looks like it's falling apart, though, perhaps ironic detachment will begin to look less like an antidote to chauvinism and more like a banal evil, unequipped to fight the pricks of history.

Rauschenberg and John's were already, by the mid-50s, pushing back against the overheated dominance of gestural painting by infusing its tropes with ironic detachment.

Perkins is aware of a cognitive dissonance here, and briefly uses it to explore the limits of ironic detachment.

We can not stand outside it with the scientific detachment of the modern or the ironic detachment of the postmodern.

Bujold glows as the obsessed, martyrlike Antigone; Weaver brings passion to Creon's mixture of reason and tyranny; and Stacy Keach (Fat City) plays the narrating Chorus with a weary, ironic detachment.

She is lovely, but not plastic, with a superb sense of comedy, and a range from righteous indignation to ironic detachment to vulnerable heartbreak is sublime.

Perkins outlines the key components of the cycle, namely: ironic detachment, a blank and apathetic tone, an episodic structure (as opposed to traditional act - based structure), strong musicality, wry sarcasm, economy of storytelling and an overwhelming focus on the abstract idea of family.

Despite all its ironic detachment --» The Cabin in the Woods» has tons of laughs, some truly jaw - dropping moments and a couple scenes of unexpected poignancy that make it more than a parody movie.

Told mostly from the male point of view, Fatal Attraction does build Alex as a credible character, but Lyne makes films that feel like Douglas Sirk films done without the ironic detachment that makes them work.

«I've found that in working this way — with this bodily, physical experience of landscape — it's possible to be both engaged in the idea of an empathetic response to what's going on while at the same time having this sort of ironic detachment,» says Seattle - based artist Vaughn Bell, who built Personal Forest Floor (Portable Mountain), 2003 — 8.

Thankfully, other artists know how to unite a cartoon's poles of expression and ironic detachment.

When later art slips in, it mostly dates from a flurry of the ironic detachment nearly twenty years ago.

Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Color Chart show at MoMA: «Predominant are attitudes of ironic detachment that derive from Marcel Duchamp, whose rebuslike canvas of 1918, «Tu m»,» with its represented commercial color samples, begins the show.

His preferred subject matter — everyday objects like playing cards, cigarette packs, and foreign currency — together with his signature cool, ironic detachment have caused some to regard Rivers as the forerunner of Pop Art.