Sentences with phrase «racial themes»

It seems apt to the moment: Like Black Panther — another film by a black director featuring powerful racial themes — it dramatically exceeded both critical and box - office expectations.

But soon after the summit I heard whispers that select reformers, some with money and power, felt the inclusion of racial themes went too far.

Before the campaign had officially begun, Espaillat also invoked racial themes when he told an audience in Harlem that «crackers» had unfairly drawn congressional lines, and there could be a «nuclear political war» between African - Americans and Latinos if they were forced to run in the same congressional district uptown.

It's a flawless balance of serious racial themes and a parodical look at «positive» discrimination as an African - American played by Daniel Kaluuya gets caught up in a cult of white body - snatchers.

Burden After co-starring in last year's Sundance standout Mudbound, Garrett Hedlund tackles even trickier racial themes with Burden, where he plays a Ku Klux Klansman who leaves his past behind for love and eventually falls in with an African - American reverend.

There are racial themes sure to make audiences uncomfortable (two of the victims are black and Asian; several of the heroes talk much of their Jewishness).

Mr. Johnson's show, which generates its own poetry, suggests a transitional phase in art right now, a time when art can be about racial themes, but also be removed from them, free to play with contradictions.

NEW: This blog, launched last fall, highlights legal scholarship and calls for papers that tackle racial themes.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial themes.

Oh, hell no, says Panther writer - director Ryan Coogler, whose rousing, thoughtful new movie — it's black and it's proud, and says it loud — leverages the classic appeal of Marvel characters in the service of his interest in social, political, and racial themes.

Critics Consensus: Though arguably guilty of glossing over its racial themes, The Help rises on the strength of its cast — particularly Viola Davis, whose performance is powerful enough to carry the film on its own.

Critic Consensus: Though arguably guilty of glossing over its racial themes, The Help rises on the strength of its cast — particularly Viola Davis, whose performance is powerful enough to carry the film on its own.

This time around, Brewer really goes for broke with a pulpy tale that isn't afraid to push a few boundaries and raise a few eyebrows, but while its strong sexual and racial themes will no doubt turn many people away, remarkable performances by the film's two leads make this one winter film that's actually worth the price of the ticket.

The gallery is now the land of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Carl Andre, Alex Katz, Cindy Sherman, Romare Bearden, Nick Cave and Richard Tuttle, pieces with feminist, political and racial themes and a video space.

In fact, the complex mix of religious iconography, racial themes, and popular culture is exactly what earned Ofili the coveted Turner Prize in 1998 (just before his 30th birthday) and led him to represent Great Britain at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

8 As a result, Whitten's work simultaneously echoes the political and racial themes of Lewis's figurative work and the small moments of color that Lewis used frequently in his abstract work.