Sentences with phrase «poverty porn»

At its worst, while it avoids falling into poverty porn (to my judgment, at least), it runs into a kind of hysteria of putting children in danger.

Without an ounce of the kind of poverty porn cheap sentimentality that has come to define contemporary American cinematic takes on third world struggles, Queen of Katwe is a triumphant piece of mainstream filmmaking.

Punctuating their conversation with English terms like «orientalism,» «gentrification,» and «colonialism,» the protesters talked energetically among themselves in Mandarin and Spanish, before loudly lambasting the «racist show» for «treating Chinatown like poverty porn.»

Poverty porn with glitter on it.

It's miserabilist poverty porn, but it features an impressive cast doing ugly work, and I was fine with its stock pleasures as a deep genre exercise in the Next of Kin / hillbillysploitation mold.

This film has attracted some broadsheet flack; sadly seen by some critics as poverty porn, a movie that the Waitrose demographic can watch with horror and wring their hands at.

This wasn't just punishing poverty porn; ideas seeped from these cinematic pores.

However, Pizzolatto's usual grizzled poverty porn remains, placing it right in line with the two seasons of his win some / lose some HBO series.

Perhaps even more common (particularly for White teachers in poorer, often urban areas) is treating our students as inspiration or poverty porn when talking to other White people.

-LSB-...] But even as it starkly depicts the realities of its characters» circumstances, The Florida Project never dips into hard - knock - life miserablism, into poverty porn; its too alive with the boisterous spirit of its community.»

With its quietly picturesque landscapes of working poor America and focused gaze on those struggling within its interiors, many might draw comparisons to Andrea Arnold's festival favourite American Honey; but where fellow Briton Arnold's knack for portraying the nuanced humanisms of precarity translates across the pond with ease, Haigh's first U.S. - set picture falls short, stopping just shy of poverty porn.

«We are here today to call out the James Cohan Gallery and its racist show and treating Chinatown like poverty porn, and we are not... Omer Fast is not, doesn't live here, doesn't live in New York, and he comes in here and calls it a gesture to our community... this fake fabrication, spends tens of thousands of dollars to make this fake fabrication, it is usually a white box and this is how you treat us?»

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Allegations of «poverty porn» have been levelled at these programmes that often portray individuals who are feckless, irresponsible, unwilling to «help themselves» out of poverty and are happy to live a life on benefits.

Event: Does «Poverty Porn» undermine the Welfare State?

A cursory glance at the hashtags used on Benefits Street or other shows based on «poverty porn» show we've a lot of catching up to do.

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Far from the «poverty porn» glorification of which it's been accused, this is a film whose characters all feel painfully real and human, in their capacity for nastiness and violence as much as for joy and love.

But even as it starkly depicts the realities of its characters» circumstances, The Florida Project never dips into hard - knock - life miserablism, into poverty porn; its too alive with the boisterous spirit of its community.

Telling the story of a mother and daughter on the outskirts of society, the film is set in a project just outside of Disney in Florida, and while that simple description could make the film sound like it dwells in the realm of «poverty porn,» what makes this a crowning turn for Baker is that it cements him as an heir apparent to the humanist mantle held by directors like the late Jonathan Demme.

(Lion hasn't yet been saddled with the slippery label «poverty porn,» the way that Millionaire was for its own depiction of «slumdogs» — the movie's coinage — but if it stays in the Oscar race, it's probably only a matter of time.)

Protestors accused the James Cohan Gallery of hosting a racist exhibition that reduces the surrounding immigrant community to «poverty porn.»

The artist ignores the presence of a thriving community filled with families and businesses reduces their existence to poverty porn.

A group of Chinatown - based activists have called out the piece as racist «poverty porn,» pure and simple, and demanded its removal.

LOWER EAST SIDE — Dozens of protesters descended on a Grand Street gallery Sunday, saying an installation mimicking a Chinatown business amounts to racist «poverty porn» and ridicules the struggling immigrants often displaced by newcomers such as art galleries.

Local activists, upset over what they saw as «racist art» and «poverty porn», staged heated protests outside the gallery.

Neighborhood activists called the work, among other things, «poverty porn».

Sick of «poverty porn», Broome photographer Michael Jalaru Torres uses beauty to educate and heal.

The second series of Struggle Street on SBS is again raising concerns about whether it transforms viewers» perspectives about poverty and disadvantage or is «poverty porn» and feeds into more stigma.