Sentences with word «mythmaker»
On the one hand, the artist acts as a force of nature — with the artist as mythmaker.
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From The Wild Bunch to Heaven's Gate, gritty revisionist westerns and so - called «anti-westerns» have sought to counteract the romantic misrepresentations of violence, history and heroism perpetuated by the genre's talented mythmakers in an effort to bring audiences an undiluted dose of the «real» Wild West.
The lavish lifestyle of public workers is a myth, but the right - wing mythmakers know it's a powerful talking point.
No less a Hollywood mythmaker than Steven Spielberg thinks it could be «the biggest movie ever.»
His bio comes complete with a Canadiana prologue any political mythmaker might envy.
Lewis gave McDonald the honor of being, «The greatest mythmaker» he knew.
As the dominant mythmaker of our time, television has come a long way from what Newton Minow called the «vast wasteland» of the 1960's.
Monod the maximalist mythmaker sees only chance and no purpose inherent in the order of things, and has a special concern to remove God from the picture.
A. N. Wilson's error - strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a «Victorian mythmaker» falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe
Those were the colonial - era mythmakers whose exoticism must surely have influenced Stan Lee and Jack Kirby when they devised the comic books in the 1960s, supplying the Afro - in the steely afrofuturism of Black Panther that generations of fans have treasured and reclaimed as an alternative to the pop culture of white America.
Affecting and stunningly photographed, My Darling Clementine is a story of the triumph of civilization over the Wild West from American cinema's consummate mythmaker.
From the SCAD Museum of Art exhibition Richard Hunt: Promethean Mythmaker [Sculptures, Drawings and Prints], February 2009.
Yet the popular perception of Figueroa as a patriotic mythmaker obscures the virtuosity of his craftsmanship and the variety of his influences: Renaissance forced perspectives, German Expressionist cinema, Goya's prints and the euphoric landscape paintings of José María Velasco.
«We live to survive our paradoxes,» the latter - day Canadian mythmaker Gord Downie sings, hinting at the internal contradictions we've carried along with us in our figurative canoes for centuries.
the mythmakers have absolutely no answer to this.
Certainly a private myth must be an ultimate and irreconcilable contradiction if we assume that the mythmaker must be the priestly or ritual spokesman of a pre-literate society.
His publications include Image and Impact (Friendship Press 1970), Television and Religion: the Shaping of Faith, Values and Culture (Augsburg 1987, currently reprinted by SBS Press, 409 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511), and Mythmakers: Gospel Culture and the Media (Friendship Press 1990).
Pagan myths express certain truths about God through the images that mythmakers have found at their disposal, Lewis explained, but Christianity is God's myth expressed «through what we call «real things.»»
I haven't finished reading The Mythmaker yet, but both books seem to discount Paul's mystical experience completely, which I think is a mistake.
I've found two books to be helpful in clarifying this: «Paul and Jesus», by James D. Tabor, and «The Mythmaker», by Hyam Maccoby.
The mythmakers went to work.
The preacher here turns against the mythmaker, against the man of science, and against the philosopher himself.
* Fore, Mythmakers: Gospel, Culture and the Media, (Friendship Press, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115), Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»
And they've inspired poets and mythmakers, among many others.
Ford the mythmaker was at the height of his powers in 1946's My Darling Clementine, but it's a remarkably relaxed and assured piece of work.
It doesn't work out and he ends up exactly where we first met him, walking out the door and into a beating while the moment of luck he's been looking for goes to a better - known mythmaker.
In Armageddon's Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and light — and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level.
On view in the Grey gallery are several works from the Tanager's landmark exhibit, The Private Myth (October 1961), organized by Sidney Geist and Philip Pearlstein, which focused on the role of the artist as a mythmaker.
«The Mythmaker,» the artist's newest exhibit at Bermudez Projects, serves as a kind of prequel, or predecessor, to his initial 2014 solo show.
The Mythmaker, Crespo's recent body of work, serves as a kind of prequel, or predecessor, to his initial 2014 solo show at Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles.
The mythmaker Terence Koh makes the most of big questions.
These mythmakers and their contemporaries take us on unforgettable trips that touch on our dreams and desires.