Sentences with phrase «on mass culture»

It has brought about increased commercial influence on the mass culture that seems to be more uniform.

The exhibition presents Stettheimer's work in the context of the social and intellectual environment of early twentieth - century New York, exploring the artist's fascinating position as an American modernist whose work exuberantly reflects on the mass culture of her times.

Like his predecessors, Rhoades included performative elements in his installations and produced epic thematic cycles, drawing on mass culture to develop a dense weave of images and forms.

Miller was also the director of Design / Writing / Research, a multidisciplinary studio, which became noted for its exhibitions, installations and projects focusing on mass culture.

He is best known for his paintings, which present an emotive and sociological perspective on mass culture.

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The backer of companies like the plant - based protein - maker Beyond Meat, and cultured - meat company Memphis Meats, Tyson Ventures» latest investment is also tackling technology development to create mass - produced meat in a lab — instead of on the farm.

Ditto on the debasement of popular culture with mass - produced, market - driven «art.»

This was the only commodity Frost and Eliot were capable of producing: the modernist phenomenon as product, mass culture's ultimate revenge on those who would scorn it.»

I get what you're saying and in essence, I agree, the church seems to the world a myopic organism, focused less on the work of the church in Acts which provided real spiritual and physical care for the masses, and more on church culture and agenda.

Recreation is no longer on the margins of life; it is a major factor, if not the major one, in determining the tone and temper of mass culture.

What are the values that the mass media communicate to us on behalf of our culture?

So the data on mass opinion do not reveal a culture war of polarized attitude clusters.

Culture ceases to bubble up in its myriad forms from below and becomes imposed on society from above through big business, mass marketing, and governments.

One could say that mass culture is parasitic on folk culture, because it requires the creativity of the people to survive, although today business machines like Hollywood prefer to create their own cultural icons that they then thrust upon a global public.

I say this knowing full well that the strong temptation within Evangelicalism is to traffic in the forms of mass culture, and it has succumbed to that temptation on more than one occasion.

In terms of the former, liberal Protestants were concerned about unbridled consumerism and an emerging mass culture while neo-evangelicals sought to buttress a world and life view that curbed socialism and a confessionless moralism on the part of liberal Protestants.

Finally, what are the values that the mass media communicate to us on behalf of our culture?

Monopoly control of the mass media, exerted not by government, but by business, can have a devastating effect on our culture.

During the sixties and seventies more than a dozen works documented the increasing U.S. control over all forms of mass media production — especially news, broadcasting, advertising, and data flow — and thus its grip on the production of culture worldwide.

Therefore, the search for meaning requires us to look at our Christian gospel on one hand and our mass mediated culture on the other, and then to slowly bring them together in ways that neither violate the spirit of the gospel nor ignore the reality of the culture.

She and her co-author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote that the «experiment in mass debasement» is damaging culture, adding «we have often warned about pornography's corrosive effects on a man's soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father.»

Whether on the left or on the right, laypeople who do not understand that the Christian life requires hard thinking are easy prey to the enthusiasms and idolatries of class, ethnicity and mass culture.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

I'm skeptical that anyone would look at this list and argue that herein is a critical mass of contemporary writers that enjoy a broad and incisive and collective purchase on either professional literary culture or general reading culture today.

The old standards for mass culture, on television and the silver screen — minimal violence, no nudity, and no ideological conflict that couldn't be solved by asking What Would JFK Do?

His participation in that culture is nearly constant — it surrounds him in mass media, on the internet, in patterns of speech, in social expectations, and in the aims and operations of his government.

On top of a particularly unattractive offensive matchup, early 2015 was an especially depressing time for pop culture, with magazines, TV, and internet content racing to impress the glazed - over masses with increasingly dumb content.

In order to sell its culture on a mass scale, the NBA and its players needed a better medium.

But our culture does have its leftovers from previous generations» perspectives on relationship, and those leftovers are most often seen — not in the news of mass killings that we are increasingly seeing — but more in our homes, behind closed doors, when conflict arises between couples and between parents and children.

Increasingly, it is used as a framework to understand and predict diverse security issues, such as the use and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction, cyberspace security, or its impact on culture and transformation processes in the military.

The underlying factor for the rampant orgies of bloodletting in the north of Nigeria boils down to a culture of violence made worse by mass illiteracy.I remember while growing up that all Hausa - Fulani males had daggers and talisman charms on them and would not hesitate to stab at the slightest provocation.

The mass culture of film reeled across class, ethnic, racial, and regional lines, drawing one and all into shared stories and imbuing us with the sense that reality itself is as changeable and ephemeral as the names on the movie marquee.

The memorial design — which involved a mile - long wall that ran past mass graves — sparked some back - and - forth between the Polish Ministry of Culture, which had planned the memorial, and Israel's Yad Vashem, which lobbied on behalf of the archaeologists.

«The interesting thing about our ideas on mass separation is that it is a form of magnetic confinement, so it fits well within the Laboratory's culture,» said physicist Nat Fisch, co-author of the paper and director of the Princeton University Program in Plasma Physics.

At mirraw we believe a trend isn't what a celebrity wears, but is everything the mass would feel comfortable in.Our motto is to design stylish comfort clothes, that adds spark to a woman's persona, that highlights all the right curves and pushes the feminism hidden right out of the covers.Our cotton jackets are part of the big trend to bring forward our traditionally rich art and as a much needed push to our cotton industry that is so diverse and rich but is sinking without much needed support.Our designers drain skills out on a paper to bring out these pieces of absolute elegance.Our ethnic jackets reflect the diversity in culture and incorporates the best of every culture in them.Richly embroidered ethnic jackets in multi colours feel like a mosaic of colours on a canvas.Threads of highly quality are used to immortalise the pattern a designer has mind.Available in every sleeve length from micro to full, and necks such as round and oval, our ethnic jackets bring up a mass appeal with the kind of styling we have added to them.

In theory, DC has an edge over Marvel in that their big heroes crossed over into mass popular culture in the 1940s and are recognisable to audiences who can't distinguish Cap's armoured black ally (Anthony Mackie as the Falcon) from Iron Man's armoured black ally (Don Cheadle as War Machine) or the colour - coded hot fighting chick on Steve Rogers» side (Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch) from the colour - coded hot fighting chick on Tony Stark's side (Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow).

Yorkville was a place where, potentially, you could develop a more discerning eye for understanding the production of culture and sometimes come to recognize the coincidence between mass cultural production and the regression of one's own intellect, as bikers, greasers, hippies, teenyboppers, and sometimes political organizers, congregated in the coffee shops and flop houses, or just hung out on the streets, all pretending that we were creating a new society free from the normative shackles of conventional morality and lifestyle but basically we were looking for drugs, sex and rock and roll and our twenty minutes of fame.

The themes, which address the influences of our world's land masses and waterways on its diverse, evolving cultures, include «Location,» «Place,» «Human / Environmental Interaction,» «Regions» and «Movement.»

By unraveling how events on the world stage were shaped by a mass media whose foot soldiers were learning the art of spectacle journalism on the fly, Carlson reveals the seed of today's media culture in yesterday's headlines.

This puts brand - building nonfiction books at a disadvantage, as your book would be competing against good review of a pop - culture fiction book in a mass circulation magazine like Cosmopolitan, or a controversial or timely author interview on Oprah!

On the other hand, (if this is indeed the reasoning), this move by Amazon may finally show that books, whether in print or electronic, are a product of our culture and should meet the highest of standards in terms of quality to be in mass production.

Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power.Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture.

As a well - recognized on - air television personality, live performer, show producer, creative director, sound designer and composer, Tommy brings his in - depth knowledge, years of experience, and love of cutting edge multimedia and pop culture to the masses.

The first to grow up in an image - centric world where the mass - dissemination of images via film, print and television started to infiltrate American culture on...

Predicated on thorough theoretical research and a deep investigation into archival material, Thomas's conceptual process relies substantially on the collection of both the iconic and the transient in literary and photographic relics of mass culture.

Is this a scathing commentary on the mass consumption of art and culture that Tate director Nicholas Serota has placed high on his agenda for the past few years?

Permeated through the aesthetics as well as characteristics of Pop Art, especially encompassing ideas of mass production, mass culture as well as advertising, XUZHEN Supermarket embraces a commentary on the ephemeral values and the frailty of society.

While Polke and Richter moved on from their early concerns with mass media and the political implications of consumer culture, Brehmer remained fascinated by the relationship between information, printed matter and socio - political functions.

Wayne has been traditionally associated with the Pop art due to his tendency to focus on objects considered to be a part of mass culture.