Sentences with phrase «racial stereotypes while»

He doggedly pursues the fugitives throughout the film, and his several attempts to get information from people of various minority groups are gloriously politically incorrect, managing to make fun of racial stereotypes while indulging in them, too.

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There's also the matter of racial stereotypes; I could count on one hand how many ethnic caricatures Bay / Kruger omitted, and even then, they may have appeared while I blinked.

Let it also stand as an example of a very effective way for a comic book adaptation to deal candidly with the fact that its main villain, while canonical, is a pretty much unredeemable racial stereotype.

While the original film had the breaking of racial stereotypes in mind, this updated version has it more in mind to have fun with them for the sake of the comedy.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Its digs at racial stereotypes and dedication to honouring the images and conceits of black cinema from the Seventies are dead on - target for the most part, while its attempts to marry it all into some sort of spy plot are subject to the same extended dull spots suffered by any dinosaur Bond flick.

While it opens with the promise of a modern take on the 1983 comedic classic Trading Places — which featured some truly biting racial and social satire — Get Hard rapidly devolves into nothing more than a sorry excuse to trot out the stereotypes it purports to subvert.

While they engage in a seemingly innocuous conversation about their dream men, insinuations about class differences, racial stereotypes, and sexuality gradually surface.

The portrait, titled Hold It in Your Mouth a Little Longer, explores notions of identity while challenging gender and racial stereotypes, themes the artist continues to explore in her first solo museum exhibition in New York, «To Wander Determined,» opening today at the Whitney.

He opts for representational art over abstraction, yet he tends to portray his central figures in almost complete blackness, blurring many of the distinctive physical details while confronting racial stereotypes, race - based economic disparities, and African mythologies.

While some black artists desire to be referred to simply as «artists» without a qualifying racial identifier, others make their racial identity and the black experience the center of their practice, challenging the established cultural stereotypes and generalizations.

The Jerusalem - born Tamy Ben - Tor is a shapeshifter of the highest order, adopting elaborate and finely observed cultural personae in her often - satirical films and performances to explore racial stereotypes — while simultaneously poking fun at the self - importance of fine art.