Sentences with phrase «of the folktale as»

Jamie Tehrani heard multiple versions of the folktale as a child and became fascinated by this question.

I look at the reuse of the Spanish Civil War (era, time, whatever) and the mystery of the folktale as an excuse to do another creature feature.

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Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.

Explaining death as a magical curse that entered the world because someone ate a forbidden piece of fruit is not even an explanation — it is a childish folktale.

Science Punk blogger Swain connects the undead dots from Haitian folktales to CIA mind - control research as he hunts for definitive proof of zombiism.

«Evil Queen» by Nathaniel Gold In the classic Scandinavian folktale «The Twelve Wild Ducks,» also known as «The Twelve Brothers» in Grimms» Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter - in - law's beauty.

6 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer A Jewish folktale set in modern - day Manhattan, this engrossing drama from Israeli writer - director Joseph Cedar (Footnote) features a career - topping performance from Richard Gere as a graying, fraying influence peddler whose generosity and opportunism are almost impossible to distinguish from each other.

As it draws to a close and the forest's sinister forces begin to reveal themselves, our characters descend deeper into hysteria, and the true breadth of the story and these actors» talents bubble to the surface for a superb, ensemble - driven folktale that chills to the bone.

Narrated by Alfre Woodard, John Henry is the longest short on the entire Blu - ray, clocking in at just under 11 minutes, but it's exceedingly colorful and snappily paced, even as the adaptation of this well - known folktale reaches its tragic conclusion.

It's Kevin Costner - as - Robin Hood levels of comically - horrific, and, just like Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Great Wall is an attempt to grit - up and culturally contextualize some ridiculous rural folktale.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

Set in 1630, New England before the Salem Witch Trials and subtitled as «A New England Folktale,» the film is unsettling and transfixing as one watches forbidding evil encroach upon a pastoral family of faith and the suspicion of the innocent escalating.

This semester, Lavender's students will make comparisons between the Moldovan folktales and their own, which follows discussions comparing forms of government, religions, and architecture and learning that Brittany Spears is as popular in Eastern Europe as she is in the United States.

After the lessons, students can write their own contemporary version of a folktale and present it as a stopmotion or Claymation film.

Many kinds of traditional literature — folktales, legends, myths, fables, as well as short stories, poetry, and scenes from plays — enable and reward close reading.

Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual collection of Hawaiian folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.

as Amazon's book description notes, adding: «It was Paul Bunyan, of course, America's finest, fastest, funniest lumberman and favorite folktale hero!»

The story, in which a magical bowl disrupts the lives of an elderly man and his cat, is just as good, smoothly blending folktale conventions with touches of magic and a dusting of comedy.

Weaving together the story of their life with China's recent political history, as well as traditional folktales and myths, the Kitchen God illuminates the most impenetrable aspects the human condition.

Wolves have long been symbols in folktales and literature all over the world, from ancient myths, such as those of Native peoples in America, to the European story of «Little Red Riding Hood.»

Part love story, part mystery, part horror, this is as much about the twisting hand of fate as it is about the mutability of folktales.

Just as reading a Russian folktale inspired her to write The Snow Child, so too did the concept for Eowyn Ivey's second novel arise from a piece of literature - this time on the fragile pages of a rare book she discovered at the bookshop where she worked.

This lively, humorous retelling of a traditional tale in an unusual and modern setting engendered the usual concerns about cultural stereotyping, the provision of sourcing (always an issue for folktales), and the portrayal of a generic «Africa» — as well as plenty of admiration.

It is hard to define the story of Kebo Iwa as a folktale.

The mixture of this in a horror survival game works rather well, with the spirit illustrations coming across as very creepy thanks to their Japanese folktale inspirations, and they integrate with the style of the game very well.

Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales.

The photographic tableaux created as part of the series will be exhibited in an upcoming exhibition, Jewish Folktales Retold: The Artist as Maggid, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, starting 28 September 2017.

Day mines these themes for their symbolism as he explores the psychological, sexual, mythic, and moral subplots of folktales.

«Pile up» — the accumulation of the history of her images / Dating as far back as our earliest folktales, advocates for mythical behavior.

Inspired by the Story of Shim Cheong, a Korea folktale as well as by Shakespeare's Ophelia, Lee JeeYoung made this installation by painting paper lotus and flooding the room with fog and carbonic ice in order to create a mystic atmosphere.