Sentences with phrase «popular film culture»

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Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Zack Snyder's D.C. superhero films offer skillful, thoughtful, even spiritual popular culture.

Year in, year out, moreover, the popular heroes of our culture — athletes, musicians, entertainers, and film stars, the aristocracy of talent adored, emulated, and worshipped as only royalties were in the past — are now significantly black as well.

Sikh films comprise a small but growing segment of the hundreds of popular South Asian films, but these works illuminate a fascinating, little - known people, culture and faith.

First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.

The music from western culture was designed to induce a range of emotions from calm to excited, and from happy to anxious or sad, and included both orchestral music and excerpts from three popular films (Psycho, Star Wars, and Schindler's List).

> / / / < I love anime and manga (of course), gaming, films, popular culture, reading, doodling, cuddling, and cats.

The $ 451 million - grossing remake of the 1960 Rat Pack classic cemented itself in popular culture, and has even made it onto Betway's list of iconic films which celebrate casino — the iGaming operator gives nod to the suave sophistication of its title character (and Brad Pitt of course).

Like most Coen movies, it isn't quite the way they used to make them, but is deeply in love not just with the films of the past, but all of popular culture, from product packaging (principally Dapper Dan hair pomade) through period pop music to modes of dress and politics.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

Weekend's infrequent but often bracingly graphic sexual imagery may appear confrontational to some, but this is arguably Haigh's intention, given that the film's underlying message is effectively one that rallies against prejudiced heterosexual attitudes to homosexuality in popular culture.

However, rather than using these points to outline a cinema of cynicism and disaffection (as Sconce did), Perkins demonstrates how irony is used to explicitly and strategically position the films within the history of popular culture (p. 13).

Mena Suvari plays a virgin who agrees to allow herself to be deflowered on pay - per - view television in this nasty and comic film that's an indictment of our prurient and hedonistic popular culture.

It sits in the culture in a more popular way than film.

The sample included reviews written by film critics; other types of critics including those for television, music, and popular culture; staff reporters; and

Fascinatingly, the two films share Michael Pitt, forging a path for himself as the archon for the modern dreamer raised on lethal doses of popular culture, and weaning himself from that luxuriant udder only with great difficulty.

That his nickname is thought to originate from a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel «The Day of the Jackal» is apt, as popular culture has leapt upon him as a subject in everything from Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy (as seen in the TV adaptations, but not the films) to comedic television series Whoops Apocalypse (with Seinfeld «s Michael Richards satirising his public persona).

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and George Lucas surprised fans by stopping by the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando for a discussion of the historic film series and its impact on their lives and on popular culture.

His taste for popular culture, global influences and incorporation of several different music genres is explicit within his films.

Instead of being driven by action Spaights plans on making this reboot a legitimate horror film and says that he's, «really excited to write something scary,» and when asked if he is more of a fan of the original Universal Monsters movies of the 1930 ′ s or the more recent action - adventure themed movies he said, «They both have their virtues and they've all been tremendously popular films and really influential in the popular culture.

As someone who loves films and television, I know so many people who are obsessed with popular culture things such as comics, superheroes, and yes, even My Little Pony.

The rest of the documentary covers the way the film has resonated in popular culture, and that's where it gets really interesting.

New to this disc is the four - minute «In Walt's Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,» an audio - only interview with Walt Disney discussing the film set to an image track, the seven - minute featurette «Iconography» that explores the film's influences on popular culture, art, and fashion, «@DisneyAnimation: Designing Disney's First Princess» with four contemporary animators discussing the design of Snow White, and an «Alternate Sequence: The Prince Meets Snow White,» plus the breezy promo - style pieces «The Fairest Facts of Them All: 7 Facts You May Now Know About Snow White» with Disney Channel star Sofia Carson and the rap retelling «Snow White in Seventy Seconds.»

The yr 2018 might be famend because the yr of Black Panther — a film that left an indelible imprint on each the popular culture and societal panorama...

Special midsection on celebrity culture, from Marilyn Monroe to Jodie Foster, comic book influences on popular movies, a tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Howard Hawks» lost films, David Begelman, auteur theory, Cannes roundup, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo

From the lobster scenes to Diane Keaton's waistcoat and tie, this Woody Allen film is referenced so often in popular culture that it's easy to forget it's nearly 40 years old.

He has been writing about film, music, books and popular culture since 1997.

A monthly film program is published in The Ryder magazine, Bloomington's free magazine of the arts and popular culture.

The atmospheric nail biter has become one of the most influential films in popular culture.

That same one can be forgiven if one had expected more from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, those deliciously subversive elves who nail popular culture in all its absurdist splendor on their television show, «South Park», and who had us all humming «Blame Canada» as we left the theater after seeing the film version, suggestively, but correctly subtitled: BIGGER LONGER & UNCUT.

Easy shots at the stodginess of 1950s schools join easy shots at the popular conception of women fifty years ago as homemakers, all while the paranoia of a culture trying to come to terms with new women's roles post-Rosie the Riveter (film noir, n'est pas?)

Each film serves as a jumping off point for the speaker to explore a related science or technology topic in a way that engages popular culture audiences.

It's based on a series of graphic novels and director Edgar Wright, whose love of popular culture bounces through his films and TV projects with creative abandon, celebrates the graphic qualities of the comic book origins in a playfully cinematic manner.

Then, it's onto the DVD Round - Up before curling up in a ball and weeping at the loss of the Twilight films from our collective popular culture.

Made in 1993, Cronos was a fresh approach to the vampire film created just as the Anne Rice books was reviving the moribund genre and long before the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series made vampires hip and the «Twilight» novels spread them through popular youth culture.

In 2001, I was invited by the editors of Christianity Today to write a weekly column called «Film Forum,» comparing and contrasting film reviews in the religious and mainstream press, and examining the nature of dialogue about art in the church and popular culture.

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Instead what we got was a film completely reliant on its visuals and recognisable properties — using popular culture references and Easter eggs in place of a coherent story and great characters.

We seek to celebrate the independent ethos of artists in music and film whose creations push against the grain of corporate - subsidized popular culture, even though interaction with the corporate world of art has grown more and more inevitable in this day and age.

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The Last Jediis the latest picture from the Star Wars universe in it's plot to completely take over popular culture, one film / year at a time.

Jon Favreau's restaurant comedy «Chef,» Rob Thomas» crowd - funded «Veronica Mars» movie and a documentary about zombies in film and popular culture will premiere at the 21st edition of the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas,...

Martin Sheen (TV's «The West Wing»), Emilio Estevez («The War At Home»), Gold & Platinum recording artist Lupillo Rivera, Latin Grammy ® Award winner and Christian recording artist Marcos Witt, world - wide Spanish - language television and recording star Jose Luis Rodriguez («El Puma»), Mexican television star Kuno Becker, Grammy ® Award nominee and Christian recording artist Jaci Velasquez, and popular Latino theater troupe Culture Clash are the English language vocal talents for the film.

Over the years, Back to the Future has become a family classic (although it has its share of adult language and themes), and a quintessential 80s film which exuded a wide - eyed charm and a celebration of the geek as part of popular culture.

The extraordinarily bloated «On the Clock: The Making of Draft Day» (60 mins., HD) is standard quasi-promotional fare discussing the jitters, the awe - inspiring scope of the NFL spectacle, and the challenge of doing a film about the most popular vice in American culture.

The upcoming feature film «Godzilla: King of the Monsters,» an epic action adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history, will star Sally Hawkins, Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, and Kyle Chandler.

Outside of the aforementioned nostalgia factor, this is a somewhat shallow film born from a somewhat shallow era in popular culture.