Sentences with phrase «modern archetype»

The picture of the «apathetic teen», eyes fixated on a screen, unaware of and unmoved by social concerns and disconnected from their immediate community is becoming something of a modern archetype.

In any event, the playwright gave a brilliant performance, the best brief explanation on record of why that night's honoree remains the modern archetype of genius.

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As the head marketing role evolves, Constellation identifies archetypes of the modern CMO.

The utilitarian interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the social contract and is consonant with the modern theory of natural rights as derived from John Locke.

Modern theology sees the Holy Trinity as Archetype not only for the individual, but for the Church, the Family, the Religious Community.

It takes the modern hero archetype and turns it on its head.

This is a modern global archetype to be found in many societies and communities.

Contrasting character archetypes between Stu (a downtrodden, nerdy dentist with a mysteriously missing tooth), Phil (the implacable playboy) and Zach (an unpredictable jester) give the comedy a modern take on a Marx Brothers form where outrageous sequences merely serve to frame the mental gymnastics and tortured physical condition of the comedians.

And while the performers are talented, the supporting characters are stock archetypes, and the plot is basically Risky Business retrofitted for the modern (wo) man - child.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

But Somebody's Darling is a very modern story about toxic masculinity, betraying an anxiety about the fading of the traditional male archetype (for the frat pack, vulnerability is equated with weakness), combined with the vile backlash against new - wave feminism, which in the real world we witness in the abuse apologist and the normalizing of misogyny.

With the prevalence of modern female writers and directors in the media, such as Zoe Kazan, Tina Fey, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, and Jane Campion, strong and complex female characters are undergoing a renaissance as they continue to eclipse the underwritten female archetypes of cinema's past.

Public Enemies, for instance, takes the public conflict between Dillinger and Purvis — archetypes of American popular imagination — and connects it to the rise of surveillance, telecommunications, modern banking, and fascism, producing something that often feels like a creation myth for the latter part of the 20th century.

The Rocketeer is too much in love with being American to suffer the idea that Old Glory didn't represent the wellspring of archetype in the modern age.

As such, Mistress America has allowed Baumbach and Gerwig to craft modern day archetypes — the awkwardly desirable nerd, the college - bound tabula rasa, the hipster goddess — and mock them to high heavens in pure unapologetically absurdist manner.

Still, the strength of the film ultimately lies in the hands of Cronenberg, who manages to take classic Western archetypes and spin them into an engaging movie about modern - day violence.

But what Perkins accomplishes best is the creation of an individual as opposed to an archetype, which is, unfortunately, all too rare in modern publishing.

Was the Bond / Bauer / Bourne model for attitudes in interacting with non player characters just a handy paradigm in development for the three playable personalities you're granting Michael Thorton, or do you believe they're almost exclusively the three archetypes for «agency operatives» in modern thriller fiction?

The painted battle planes with their highlighted famous names are used by Morley as archetypes for (the dream of) modernism in general and modern art, in particular.

In the recent exhibition «Silent,» Berlin - based duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz used a self - described practice of «queer archaeology» to out archetypes of modern art.

There's no romantic vision of a primitive culture to be seen - the archetypes here are complicated concoctions of western and eastern cultures, featuring migrant figures who explore the conflict and intersection between the primitive and rampant first world commercialism of modern island life.

The Capitoline museum and the Vatican museum are perhaps the first institutions that we could call «museums», although they were not open to all, while the Ashmolean in Oxford, UK is the true archetype of a modern museum and the first housed in a building specifically conceived for that purpose.

: an interdisciplinary research project and an International Symposium on the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art, London: Archetype Publ.

Its presentation of 111 archetypes of modern dress — from the suit to the Speedo to the Burkini — attempts to break down the complicated and often irrational histories of the «Items» of clothing we wear everyday.

Known for constructing the feminine archetype through juxtaposing the ancient goddesses of Mesopotamia, Egypt and India with the more «modern» goddesses such as the Mona Lisa, Umm Kulthum, Tahiyya Karyokka, the artist's mother or aunts, Lutfi captures the women's emotions, their sexuality and experiences in order to simultaneously celebrate femininity and expose the cultural restrictions imposed upon it.

A group exhibition exploring the influence of ancient myths and archetypes on modern artists at their moments of transformation from figuration to abstraction.

The rest of us have to make do with sublunary Freud, Jung, and other analysts of the modern unconscious — who at least tried to reach for the heavens with sex and mythical archetypes.