Sentences with phrase «social comment»

The works also contain political and social comment on the world which within we live.

The consumer is informed through wide social comment and a steady stream of media coverage, some science based and some more opinion led.

His large format artwork is dream - like in setting, but infused with social comment on life in America today, addressing questions on the American family and consumerism.

And let's face it, that's the way the worst hippie / lefty types like such songs, and why too many smug social comment songs were made in the 60s.

British photographer Katherine Green is known for her documentary - style photography that offers social comment.

, and while its one line hits home with me, it is closer to the typical shallowness of rock social comment than to its rarer instances of profundity.

Which is weird, because one doesn't write social comment songs about hypochondria and such.

This was supposed to be a jovial story about unconventionally styling ballet flats, not a negative social comment on the way people dress.

This past weekend I finally sat down to watch Midnight in Paris, the latest film by Woody Allen, and it brought up a few key social comments that I think applies to the general film blogosphere.

In Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatic.

Effortlessly moving from comedy to serious social comment, eliciting excellent performances from a large and perfectly selected cast, and making superb use of music both to create mood and comment on the action, Lee contrives to see both sides of each conflict without falling prey to simplistic sentimentality.

Based on the novel that has become the de-facto national book of Azerbaijan and littered with historical figures that led the country's independence movement, this is a story that should be ripe with political and social comments for a tumultuous world today.

This dystopian thriller's attempt at social comment is hijacked by extraterrestrial crustaceans with a craze for cat food

The challenge might as handily have been provoked by numerous interpersonal events of a more explicitly private nature (but these lack the cachet of apparent social comment); for the most compelling relationships in the film and the narrative turns they generate are satisfyingly free of 1:1, paint - by - the - numbers cause and effect.

suddenly wanted to make social comment, but there you go.

While Kingsman's London - set pub brawls might not quite share the quality of amiable social comment as say Shaun of the Dead, its tongue is almost always firmly, entertainingly planted in its cheek.

The cultured, cool vampires» disdain for the «zombies,» along with dark hints at how they / we have «polluted» or «contaminated» ourselves somehow hint at some slight social comment on humankind's self - destructive tendencies, though we're probably reaching on that one.

«There are nits to be picked (heavy - handed editorial choices that clobber us with too - overt social comments dot the film), but like a bolt of silk you might rather simply pass this flick through your fingers and let it thrill you with its giddy cinephilic pleasures.»

Granted, social comment still permeates: two pieces are constructed from the old gym - floors of closed Chicago schools, another from objects obtained from an independent hardware store now derelict as a result of conglomerate competition.

It pointed to the everyday subject matter (furniture, babies nappies, kitchen utensils, toilets) of the foursome, whose celebration of the banal in the lives of ordinary people was their attempt to make art more relevant and accessible, while making a clear social comment.

Here the hybridity of design, color, and social comment exceeds the limits of a singular interpretation, often evoking semiotic disjunctures or autosymbolic metaphors within the context of strange psycho - sociological encounters between people.

His large format artwork is dream - like in setting, but infused with social comment...

This is a university town with thousands of students each year, but this graffiti relates to social comment on the severe financial troubles Greece suffered from a few years ago.

Based in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford's sweeping canvases recapture mid-century American art's capacity to conjure the sublime and evoke deep feeling, while incorporating layers of social comment.

«Social comments can be a nuisance or a gift.

Many of his social comments sound quite conservative to our ears.

Thus, the premise of the cultural paradigm of expression holds that art is capable of social comment, but only if the cultural paradigm of narrative is invalid; if that is not the case, truth is used to reinforce the status quo.

Social comment: Why is a film about young people killing each other so popular?

Fine and enjoyable thriller and its mixture of satire, violence and social comment is fresh and invigorating, providing the perfect antidote to Miami Vice.

This is that rare piece of cinema where middle aged characters are given intelligent, well sketched roles with an insight and it works on multiple levels as a social comment, complex human behaviour and great entertainment.

Peppered with over-the-top, gun - loving violence and a one - stop - shop featuring a beautiful blond selling over-the-counter guns»n' ammo, Roth relishes the violence but offers no social comment on it.

It has moments of drama, humor and social comment.

It's a comedy with an edge of social comment, and Carbon Copy also fits this bill.

In an interview as early as 1966, he described American art as being in a terrible state, and said art should not possess hidden meaning, biographical reference or social comment.

In a 1970/78 shot of a young Latino man and woman briskly walking, no social comment gets in the way of the expansive American grace of their outstretched arms.

Opper said he preferred to combine creative work with social comment and was as yet unwilling to do completely abstract art.

Based in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford's sweeping canvases recapture mid-century American art's capacity to conjure the sublime and evoke the deep feeling, while incorporating layers of social comment.

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