Sentences with phrase «on autobiographical»

The impact of negative affect on autobiographical memory: the role of self - focused attention to moods

In 1965, with funding from a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Andrews traveled home to Georgia and began working on his Autobiographical Series.

The exhibition press release informs us of the artist's choice, based on autobiographical references, to entitle this series Untitled Anxious Men.

Featuring 10 new paintings in Sam's signature style, a play with light and shadow, the works explore different characters in low sunlight and are based on autobiographical experiences.

This marked an important turn in Bossio's work, focusing less on autobiographical issues and more on the wide - ranging situations of all womankind.

His works can be seen as stand - ins for the body in which a trace is left behind of an intimate encounter based on autobiographical themes of desire, sexuality and community.

Born in 1946, Binion has maintained an engaging practice that draws on autobiographical experience, African American narrative and the visual elements of Modernism.

Jeronimo Elespe paints dreamlike scenes based on autobiographical details, lingering between myth and the mundane.

But even this talented writer has had projects that ended in failure: In a 2008 BookPage interview, Dubus told us that he had been working on an autobiographical novel, but kept throwing away drafts.

Her PhD was on autobiographical structures in André Gide's early fiction.

Other notable works include his trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow, which draws on autobiographical details.

Right now I'm working on an autobiographical short story that I'd love to have published in a magazine.

It's a scholarly track, which comments on autobiographical elements, Truffaut's career and technical mastery, the influence of his Hitchcock appreciation,

Much like his previous film on American movies, Scorsese begins on an autobiographical note, the sense of nostalgic reminiscence foregrounded with memories of family viewings of Roberto Rossellini's Paisan, before affording the movies in question a greater depth of analysis, of personal resonance.

Based on the autobiographical writings of Mark O» Brien and directed by Ben Lewin; this is sure to have everybody talking with its encouragement of sex outside of a marriage and sex as a healer.

«Behind The Candelabra» Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel of the same name, the picture is a behind - the - scenes look at the tempestuous relationship between legendary entertainer Liberace and Scott Thorson, his younger lover.

The two filmmakers discuss specific examples from their own bodies of work and how those relate to their own directorial processes, focusing on autobiographical elements, locations (especially cities), working with actors, and how an artist's personality or personal life becomes a part of their work.

The film is based on the autobiographical book of the same title, written by none other than the notorious poker princess of Los Angeles herself — Molly Bloom.

Based on the 1968 comedy of the same name (which itself was based on an autobiographical book by Helen Beardsley), this remake is about nothing more than 2 middle - aged newlyweds, their ten kids, and a whole lot of chaos.

[font = Century Gothic] «Lackawanna Blues» is based on the autobiographical play by Ruben Santiago - Hudson about his experiences growing up an unorthodox childhood in a rooming house owned and ran by Rachel «Nanny» Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) in the fifties and sixties in a largely minority neighborhood in Lackawanna, New York.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

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Then, abruptly abandoning the autobiographical narrative, Augustine embarks on a series of theological and philosophical speculations about time, memory, and the opening chapters of Genesis.

Wills's comments on Humanae Vitae lack Carroll's autobiographical bent but far exceed him in scorn.

The new genre would contain autobiographical fiction closely based on the Scriptural narratives and faithful to first - century history.

Bill J. Leonard reviews Tietjen's autobiographical reflections on that era of turmoil.

There are several speeches on Goethe, two autobiographical books, two volumes of a projected four on a general theory of civilization, smaller tracts on atomic testing and world peace, a collection of sermons, numerous anthologies of his sayings, and a half dozen books and pamphlets on his experiences in Africa.

Benedict spoke of John Paul's witness and the part that played in the end of the Soviet Empire and then, at the youth rally on Saturday, offered a rare autobiographical reflection.

There were some influential neo-paganists in the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, but they were a minority and their views had little influence on Nazi ideology and Hitler denounced Germanic paganism in his autobiographical «Mein Kampf» and condemned Rosenberg's and Himmler's paganism as «nonsense».

In Whitehead's «Autobiographical Remarks,» and in Russell's Portraits from Memory5 each, with Edwardian grace and dignity, comments on the attitude of affectionate respect for the other, on the growth of that respect to friendship and collaboration on the monumental Principia Mathematica, 6 and on the subsequent dissolution of the collaboration and cooling of the friendship.

From this autobiographical beginning point it becomes meaningful to take on the major technical issue of this chapter, asking whether pastoral counseling has a definable historic identity?

The insistence on experience, especially in an autobiographical form, might suggest a highly individualistic and personalistic note, but I do not think that this is the case.

This broadly phenomenological type of argumentation is necessary to the sort of «explicit» conviction that depends on direct and first - hand evidence, even while it properly recognizes that «our thought unavoidably moves within a hermeneutical circle which excludes any simple resolution of fundamental differences» (PP 87).11 Since it makes immediate reference to the evidence of one's own experience, a description of which is at issue, and only then is extended to all others one sympathetically imagines to be like oneself, it is essentially an autobiographical type of argumentation.

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936 — 1938 by Mary McCarthy Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 114 pages, $ 15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical....

I feel I know him well enough, in part because so much of his writing is autobiographical; but until last September, I'd known him only on the page.

I suggest you read Scott and Kimberly Hahn's autobiographical book on their conversion story and search for truth, «Rome Sweet Home.»

His Speaking Out Lessons in Life and Politics (Hutchinson # 20) combines autobiographical details as well as reflections on the use and abuse of power and why politics matter.

Team Catsimatidis said the new ad will replace a 60 - second autobiographical spot that went up on Memorial Day, making the businessman the first mayoral candidate to jump into TV advertising, and may return later in the cycle.

Researchers got their hands on archival autobiographical sketches written by 74 nuns, from Baltimore and Milwaukee, completed between ages 19 and 37 years.

Instead of relying on interviews with adults, as previous studies of childhood amnesia have done, the Emory researchers wanted to document early autobiographical memory formation, as well as the age of forgetting these memories.

As a result, our early years tend to be relatively overrepresented in our autobiographical memory and, on reflection, seem to have lasted longer.

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

After her autobiographical character on The Ellen Show followed suit, the show was canceled in May of 1998.

I am proud to say that The Disaster Artist is a autobiographical masterpiece and this movie will make you appreciate, laugh, and cry about how Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero became infamous on creating the best worst movie ever made.

For those who wish to decode The Names of Love, there's a sharp commentary on French prejudices, character types, history, and culture embedded in Michel Leclerc's droll autobiographical French comedy.

Variety calls the film «another delicate, surprising reflection on intimate relationship politics» from the talented director, who, according to THR «makes an audacious leap into autobiographical documentary.»

Based on Jerry Stahl's autobiographical book of the same name, Permanent Midnight offers a close - up, startling look at the underbelly of the American Dream.

This film is based on a true story and uses Benjamin Mee «s autobiographical book as the basic source material.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

The Critics» Prize, voted on by journalists at the festival and given independently of the jury, went to the Sundance winner «American Splendor,» inspired by the autobiographical comic books of the redoubtable Cleveland file clerk Harvey Pekar.

Individually, the men recall Fox passing on Williamson's outline for episodes one through six, the audition period (almost 500 actors tried out for Dawson), Joey's real - life counterpart «Fanny,» other elements of the show autobiographical to Williamson, and the hype leading up to the series» launch; as you may surmise, this is a breathless and edifying eight minutes.