Sentences with phrase «mythologizing of»

This mythologizing of the Sixties is not good history.

This kind of historical filmmaking may be the polar opposite of the ecstatic mythologizing of Terrence Malick's The New World, but it's the proper opposite and no less valuable a strand in cinema's long, often tortured relationship to historical representation.

Their Finest dealt with the mythologizing of the event — propaganda filmmakers telling the story of the Little Ships, or one little ship, to stoke American support for joining the war — while Dunkirk showed us, in stressful detail, the scene on the ground, at sea, and in the air.

If its mythologizing of its environment and male physiques (and fury) never quite leads anywhere as momentous as the early - going suggests, Mikkelsen verifies that, even without saying a word, he's an unnervingly unhinged presence.

The story quotes the study My Daddy's Name is Donor by Elizabeth Marquardt, who wrote for «On the Square» an article titled The Kids Are Not All Right, a take - down of the recent movie's cheerful and utterly unrealistic mythologizing of sperm donation (the ultimate absent fathers).

Is that no more than an unnecessary mythologizing of an ontological proposition?

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I first learned about Cambridge Analytica because it was involved in the invasive data collection and targeting practices of the Ted Cruz presidential campaign, for which Cambridge Analytica used its mythologized psychographic profiling and targeting capabilities.

The OT is an apocyphal history of the Semitic people and the NT is a morality tale — mythologized historical fiction.

Christmas might be the most heavily mythologized thing of all time.

-- Mao Tse Tung, Autotheist who successfully mythologized himself into the Godhead position of his cult of personality (fixed that for you)

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

But consider this, the vast majority of the Hebrew Bible is a retro telling of mythologized Jewish history which basically says, «Look, we lost this war because we disobeyed God.

Aaron Mitchell, the next - to - last man executed in 1967, succeeded in mythologizing the liturgy of death by removing all of his clothes a few hours before his execution, slashing his wrists with a razor blade, and standing in the form of a crucifix, arms outstretched.

Despite all that Hollywood has done to mythologize exorcisms, he still believes in the power of this rite, a power born not of fear, but of faith.

I have argued that a natural philosophy that begins with the assumption that certain fundamental bipolarities are indissociable at once demythologizes a badly mythologized rationality and opens the door to a mythopoeic component in the elucidation of experience.

I interpret the OT as an apocryphal history of the Jewish people and the NT as the mythologized account of a radical Rabbi's quest to bring the Word of God to the gentiles.

For generations mainline Protestants have tried to «demythologize» the contents of scriptures and creeds in an effort to gain social and political influence, while dispensationalists have avidly «mythologized» the Bible into ever more incredible systems of belief about the «end times.»

God breaks the grip of scapegoating by stepping into the place of a victim, and by being a victim who can not be hidden or mythologized.

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

He was a real person (Jesus of Nazareth) who was mythologized into a make - believe person (Jesus Christ), an even greater miracle worker than Santa Claus!

With a keen sense of the power of sports and a genius for mythologizing athletes to help sell sneakers, Nike bestrides the world of sport like a marketing colossus

Tamblyn tells BuzzFeed that she hopes «to elicit some fresh, challenging conversations and examinations of who we are as a society» by flipping the gender norms, and says the book is about «survivors of rape and the commodification, denigration, and manipulation of their stories by everyone from the American media to the judicial system,» as well as also being «a story about how we dangerously demonize and mythologize women.»

2018-04-08 14:22 Americans mythologize economic competition, but it's actually the opposite of capitalism.

In the 20th century, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was mythologized as God incarnate by the Afro - syncretic Rastafari movement in part because of his resounding triumph against Italian colonizers.

It's an old - fashioned, fast - moving, family - friendly adventure yarn unmuddied by an excess of subtext, political undercurrent or narrative mythologizing.

Prefaced by the above text, Jon Krakauer's nonfiction bestseller Into the Wild mythologizes the plight of Chris McCandless, who spent the final two years of his life in exile from every relationship he had theretofore established, and in revocation of even the most basic amenities of comfort.

Perhaps the ur - example of Tarantino's ability to balance his characters as though on the blade of one of his mythologized Hanzo swords is the titular corpse himself, embodied with such vicious restraint by David Carradine.

Early on, though, I was reminded of patriarch Homer's warning to grandson Lonnie in Hud: that «little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire» — that our perceived, fictionalized, mythologized history becomes the template into which we slot our behaviour into an increasingly Pirandellian future.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.

Her early descent down the Times Square stairs in Mistress America, the second film she co-wrote with Baumbach, felt like more than just the perfect introduction to her self - mythologizing character — it was also the coronation of indie royalty, like the star taking her place as the quick - witted queen of millennial New York neurosis.

Millennial communication patterns — a constant, rapid shuffle between angst, oversharing, self - mythologizing, self - abasement, insincere social ritual, and sincere shared enthusiasm — slot incredibly well into the framework of a screwball comedy.

While the film never makes us doubt that Neruda is a great poet and a politician of true conviction, nevertheless he also emerges as a self - serving, self - mythologizing, perpetually randy buffoon.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.

It's a position Eastwood wants to cast himself in, evidently, and it's more effective in A Perfect World than in Unforgiven (or in In the Line of Fire, where he's a Secret Service agent who failed to protect Kennedy) because A Perfect World does nothing to mythologize the power of the lone hero.

In this case, the equation is perhaps reversed, as the documentary fictionalizes — even mythologizes — the histories of its subjects cum filmmakers.

In re-mythologizing the already - mythologized, the picture reminds of O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Jared Moshe, the writer - director of the throwback Western programmer Dead Man's Burden, returns with another straightforward take on film's most mythologized genre.

THE DISASTER ARTIST As James and Dave Franco (plus a bevy of cameos) take us step by step through the apparently true story of the making of «The Room» (far worse then the simply dull and incompetent «Plan 9 From Outer Space»), they manage to not overly mythologize Wiseau or smirk at him too much.

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating manners — Touch of Zen's ghost story elements for example — The Hidden Sword takes advantage of an already established genre, thus reducing the power of its reach.

Whether you buy the flashy, mythologized resultsmay subconsciously depend on whether you wordlessly bless the iPhone each time you text on it, or whether you mutter curses about the size of your thumb in relation to the size of the touch screen.

The 2014 Nissan GT - R is one of the most mythologized AWD coupes ever built, the culmination of the Skyline DNA that for years terrorized Japanese race tracks and twisty mountain passages in a bid for high performance dominance.

In her new collection, Almost Famous Women, Bergman focuses on the lives of real women who have been marginalized (or mythologized) in history.

The defeat of Custer's Seventh Cavalry near the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876, has been so painstakingly chronicled and relentlessly mythologized that it's hard to imagine anyone could find much new to say about it.

Possibly the most mythologized method of travel, the train is celebrated in Starlight on the Rails, a collection of duotone photographs taken by a skilled group of artists over the course of five decades.

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle took place in southern Montana.

Manjoo's column, «Don't Support Your Local Bookseller» asserts that killing off indie bookstores might not be such a bad thing because they are, «some of the least efficient, least user - friendly, and most mistakenly mythologized local establishments you can find,» calling them «cultish, moldering institutions.»

``... [Breed - specific] legislation itself enhances the mythologized image of these dogs [pit bulls] as super aggressive, thus increasing their attraction for people who like this idea, and who are precisely those people most likely to treat them inappropriately and encourage aggression.»

Up until the release of Hyrule Warriors, the massive warfare franchise focused on mythologized historical battles or anime series sharing the same breezy view of human conflict.

The famous warning of the first game was self - mythologizing: «The true Demon's Souls starts here.»

The portrait series «challenges the mythologized art historical role of the Venus and the odalisque in Western painting, setting these tropes against the reality of one of the largest concentrations of sex workers in Africa.»