Sentences with phrase «of new genres at»

She is assistant professor of New Genres at Chapman University and is represented by Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles.

Fraser is a professor of New Genres at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

The wilderness - shooter video game series has long been a sort of self - caricature, an unapologetic shoot - em - up that winks and nods at the genre itself, and for its newest iteration, Far Cry turns an eye toward Christian culture — barely.

It has been noted by astute demographers that at the time the baby bust generation began to reach marriage age, the articles in women's magazines began to depart from the «Why He Won't Commit» genre to articles about «The New Morality» and reactions to the sexual excesses of the previous decade.

I'm grieved to point out a new and growing genre of mommy blogs: blogs set up specifically to recount the death or serious injury of babies at homebirth and the aftermath for their devastated mothers and families.

In fact, since August 28th, his office has sent me the governor's latest news via email at least EIGHTEEN TIMES in only three days, a number which is tragically low because I deleted the first few messages before I realized I was witness at the birth of a new literary genre.

I enjoyed it quite a bit more than Minority Report and Children of Men, and while I doubt it will usher in a new age of sci - fi movies (the audience reaction at my showing was fairly tepid), at the very least it's a minor milestone for the genre.

War, the Game is a title that all strategy lovers should try out at least once in order to see how smaller teams can innovate by taking the classic concepts of the genre and turning them into something new.

I respect new ideas and takes on genres, lord knows we need some fresh blood, but not at the cost of actual enjoyment.

The latest from publisher Acttil seems to be focused on capturing those new to the genre, or at least those who were intimidated by the difficult nature of Experience's games.

CRUST is a new indie horror film starring some of the genres favorite stars, and to be honest, not much is know about the project at...

Otherwise, Ray Gigant is a nice JRPG with good looking monster art, some eclectic music, and an overall good introduction for those new to the dungeon crawling genre or at least Experience's brand of dungeon crawler.

«Majin is an extremely important title for us, and one we believe will pioneer a new genre of advanced artificially intelligent cooperative gameplay,» said Daisuke Uchiyama, the chief producer at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc..

It's sense of scale was something completely new to the fantasy genre on film at the time.

Right at the dawn of the current fairytale - movie era, this story of a princess who is banished from an animated wonderland to present - day New York manages to comment wryly on a lot of the genre's tropes without undermining them completely.

There's a lot to commend in Spooks: The Greater Good, but at the end of the day it offers nothing new to the genre and it's big - screen adaptation just needed to be more daring and step out of the confines of television.

While the more critically esteemed New Wave cinema of Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) and My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979) presented a refined image of Australia, early genre films like Stork (Tim Burstall, 1971), The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Bruce Beresford, 1972) and The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Richard Franklin, 1975) were seen as portraying a more crude side of Australian society.

Suffice to say that, although as a genre piece it's nothing new, it's still tightly and cleverly handled and unravels as a satisfying psychological thriller that's worthy of some attention.There's a strong cinematic output from our Antipodean friends at the moment, of which, Edgerton seems to be spearheading and this will no doubt convince studios to invest further in his directorial endeavours.Mark Walker

Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a cRPG at heart, but every gameplay feature of the genre has been taken to new heights and not only in character creation and interaction with NPCs and between party members.

Hell, it could open up a whole new avenue of genre exploration at the same time.

It seems he's good at these hybrid types of movies, opening up old genres in new directions.

-- proved himself adept at any genre he turned his hand to, from the action sci - fi of Escape From New York (1981), to the science fiction romance of Starman (1984), to the high - comedy fantasy of Big Trouble In Little China (1986).

«With its emotional storytelling, innovative gameplay, and breathtaking aesthetics, the original Ni no Kuni broke new ground in the RPG genre and became one of the most beloved and well - received games of 2013,» said Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing at Bandai Namco Entertainment America.

Though many mark the bookends of the New American Cinema as Bonnie & Clyde on the left and Raging Bull on the right, a case could be made for The Wild Bunch (being, as it is, the death knell for an entire genre and the goddamned American naïvete that genre represents) and its emotional doppelgänger at the end of the Seventies, Apocalypse Now.

From the dichotomous twin poles of the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès to the perceived new nouvelles vagues of Olivier Assayas and Christophe Honoré, a majority of the country's greatest films and filmmakers have belonged (however broadly) to one school or another; or, at the very least (as in the case of, say, Jean - Pierre Melville or, more recently, Danièle Thompson, Mathieu Kassovitz or Pierre Salvadori), they have worked within a genre that has had contemporary currency and visibility.

In between, The Wild Bunch presents coffin nails for every single thing sacred in the western genre: its heroes are broken - down, paunchy, exhausted, and driven by the wrong things; its whores are nasty; and its bloodshed is excessive and unconscionable.3 Other New American westerns could only pretend at this picture's level of absolute obscenity; like Apocalypse Now, it wasn't a movie about Vietnam — it was Vietnam.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

At today's upfronts, Crackle unveiled upcoming programming — season two The Art of More and Supermansion; a new movie based on popular video game Dead Rising and seven channels — each based around genres that are popular with viewers (Comedy, Action, Drama, Thriller, Sports, Fandom and Anime),

Not only have we failed to produce new games of this ilk, we've closed down some of the previous genre stalwarts; games like Wipeout and Extreme - G are not even memories for most of us at this point.

Fats Domino: Remembering a Rock and Roll Pioneer — David A. Graham eulogizes the pianist and singer, who died at 98, as one of the few remaining links to the era when jazz, blues, boogie, and R&B were melding to form a new genre.

Already buzz for David Tennant starring in the second Fright Night (of course this has to do well, so far awesome reviews), With the already Twilight Movie bullshit killing the vampire genre I would be amazed if this isn't a fresh new look at what the 1985 Fright Night started.

Forget the pubescent wranglings of Twilight; together with Jim Jarmusch's sumptuous, romantic odyssey Only Lovers Left Alive and Jemaine Clement's and Taika Waititi's hilarious spoof What We Do in the Shadows, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night marks an exciting new dawn for the vampire genre as an entirely adult proposition.

It's the only viable approach to the Captain John Smith / Pocahontas story in a minefield of debris strewn by not only our Western genre tradition, but also our newer guilt at how American Indians have been (and continue to be) portrayed in our culture: the most bestial, savage notions of the Natural have come around to their personification as an unsullied, Edenic embodiment of an impossibly harmonious nature.

And today Namco Bandai established Surge, a new publishing label «dedicated to providing cutting - edge, genre - defining games that are targeted at satiating the appetite of western gamers.»

While it pointed fingers and gawked at the genre, Vaughn and company clearly had fun building a new spy series for the next generation by simultaneously honoring the films and icons of the past, while also pointing out their glaring flaws.

At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.

Filmmakers Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's new addition to the storied genre have taken a much different, lighter route to the oldest of monsters as their story follows a a documentary crew taking an inside look at the lives of three vampires who are hundreds of years old.

Here you will find all of the latest news and updates about the annual haunt event Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Florida and Hollywood, California, featuring new mazes and attractions every year inspired by many of your favorite horror movies and genre icons, including Michael Myers of «Halloween», Leatherface of «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre», and many more!

The New York Film Academy is a purveyor of great cinematography of any genre, but faculty staff at the filmmaking school particularly enjoy a good film noir, especially when using it to teach students the nuances of expressionism.

At almost three hours long, this film plays like one of Terrence Malick's lesser efforts (e.g., The New World) and is the kind of self - indulgent and artsy western that helped kill off the genre 30 years ago.

The idea of a new indie zombie drama, then, isn't necessarily one to make you froth at the mouth — even when it's based on a hit 2013 short film, the intervening five years have seen the genre done to undeath.

It's a brutal, bitter, and cold - hearted piece of genre cinema, and one that any new horror fan should experience at least once.

Still the wittiest example of the genre that took its name, The Old Dark House assumes glittering and sometimes rabid new life in a first - class 4K restoration, screening on September 30 at the New York Film Festivnew life in a first - class 4K restoration, screening on September 30 at the New York Film FestivNew York Film Festival.

However at its crux, Dark Void is an average third person shooter that does not really offer this genre anything new in terms of content, it's competent but nothing too flashy.

I feel like the genre is at a turning point where it's about to be reinvigorated, I've already seen a few of the films coming out next year (ones that simultaneously fit the definitions of the genre while taking it to new places) and I think 2013 will represent a turning point.

Not only do we get our pick of our past, though, the genre continues to be added onto to provide us with new scares at every turn.

The newest American crime thriller and cop drama to hit theaters, «Triple 9», is a movie that packs an attractive star studded cast, features intense action and has most of the right elements to make it at least a mediocre genre piece, but it also presents a story that is unfocused and sometimes unclear with feeling that it's incomplete or missing something.

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