Sentences with phrase «social critics like»

Ringgold's style combined folk art techniques with modernist images and content inspired by her contemporary outspoken social critics like James Baldwin, Lo Roi Jones and Amiri Baraka.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

Not exact matches

Other critics accuse the GOP of wanting to blow up the deficit to justify future cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security.

This tolerance ranges from allowing political demagogues like Jackson to posture as moral spokesmen while maintaining their ties to bigots like Farrakhan to portraying those bigots as social critics.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

Critics like Matt Browner - Hamlin, the SEIU's deputy director of new media, and Michael Cornfield, a political scientist and longtime analyst of online politics, have chimed in to dismiss the study's import, arguing that simply counting the presence of social media tools being deployed by an organization means little, or nothing.

But at his news conference, Farhadi expressed sorrow and unease at the plight of his countryman Jafar Panahi, who in films like «The Circle» and «Offside» has been a consistently sharp critic of Iran's social policies.

High - profile gala premieres either landed with a thud («The Fifth Estate,» a «Social Network» - like snapshot of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange), sank under the groaning weight of responsibility (the Nelson Mandela biopic «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom») or, through sustained shouting and unrestrained acting, made critics» heads hurt and / or spin (the star - packed adaptation of the Tony Award - winning «August: Osage County»).

David Fincher for The Social Network — the film is well liked not just by the public but by the critics.

Amid garbled claims that the corporation that owns Marvel had somehow paid off critics to trash the recent crop of superhero movies from their longstanding rival DC, the page organisers encouraged the use of hashtags like #DownWithDisney and #DCOverMarvel as social media rallying points.

As much as the film seemed like it was going to be a shoe - in for success based on critics» praise and a savvy social media campaign leading up to the release, it was still the third Spider - Man franchise to hit the big screen in the last 15 years.

Like many previous critics of social studies, Mr. Burack relies on a few quotes taken out of context to shock his readers into concern that an «antiwestern» bias has taken over the education of our youth.

In contrast to most social critics, there is plenty in the culture of the ghetto that Canada likes and admires.

Social media evaluation practices — rating, ranking, voting, «liking,» and «friending» by ordinary users, peers, and critics — have become essential promotional tools for musicians.

After the western art capitol moved from Paris to New York because of the wars, critics like Greenberg posed American abstraction against Socialist Realism, and the standpoint of Social Realism became confused.

As Baker knows, Bram Dijkstra's great book, «American Expressionism,» points out that American painting was very concerned with social issues before formalist critics like Clement Greenberg rejected all representational paintings in favor of abstractions and «snobbed» any work of social commentary off the map.

The curator's inclusion of Motherwell's citation of Harold Rosenberg's excerpt from his 1952 «The American Action Painters» essay in a work on paper is a nod to their relationship, but it also calls to mind that historically, Motherwell's work, like that of his New York School colleagues, was placed within a discourse that was either existential or formal — devoid of social and political contexts — by prominent critics Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.

For SP to write, «[T] he politically - charged and subjective tone expressed by critics like Senator Boxer and Physicians for Social Responsibility only serves to weaken their stance» begs the question: Why is the White House editing a CDC report?