Sentences with phrase «to a contemporary audience»

It goes without saying that adaptations of characters with such longevity should reflect the prevailing styles of entertainment and tastes of contemporary audiences... or does it?
Equally unfortunate is how little contemporary audiences seem to be satisfied with at this point.
It resonates globally, and that's important for us to get exposure to a different crowd, as it has a more contemporary reputation, and therefore a more contemporary audience.
And contemporary audiences tend to perceive it as a cohesive movement, one in which the artists involved had an understood agenda, or were at least moving in a cohesive aesthetic direction.
With the advancements in technology and the changing reading patterns of contemporary audiences, you now have to consider a number of factors before getting started.
African Masks After Walker Evans continues the artist's questioning of traditional ideas of originality and authorship, developed over four decades, and her interest in the deconstruction of images and objects from the past in order to create new relationships with contemporary audiences today.
Hailing from «Grey's Anatomy» executive producers Joan Rater and Tony Phelan and co-writer Dan Junks, the project will reimagine Drew, who first appeared in 1930, for contemporary audiences as an NYPD detective with «uncanny observational skills.»
Despite the easy, short - term solutions that the Internet affords publishers with a thriving digital market, institutions like Criterion and Penguin still remain prominent in physically preserving important works for contemporary audiences in tangent with digital forms of distribution.
Maureen O'Hara's characterization of a feisty redhead with a mean right jab might also be seen with less humor by contemporary audiences who are more sensitive to domestic disputes.
While a prevailing wind of cultural pessimism might propose Spence's work as specifically periodic, to those who know it, and to those who — through this exhibition — will come to know it, it is clear that she has much to offer contemporary audiences.
In Five Stars, Carmine Gallo, bestselling author of Talk Like TED, breaks down how to apply Aristotle's formula of persuasion to inspire contemporary audiences.
He is first and foremost a capitalist, of course (a point not lost on contemporary audiences, hopefully) but one who shows such open disdain towards his slaves that they are acknowledged only as property to be exchanged for cash in transactions.
It's something of a truism — and an overstatement — that every generation gets the Lincoln it needs, but there's no escaping that Spielberg's Lincoln seems ideally suited to help contemporary audiences put their present political culture in context.
In Mendes's defense, he's quick to pull a Woody Tobias Jr. and lament his own inept staging, but still I think Murch almost deserves a co-directing credit for being such an astute watchdog — even if he gives contemporary audiences a little too much credit in valuing the implicit over the explicit.
Malick's films, though incredibly beautiful, can leave contemporary audiences bewildered and dissatisfied.
Shaft's appeal to contemporary audiences resulted in both sequels and imitators, as well as black female superwoman movies like Foxy Brown.
If contemporary audiences respond to these new films with the same enthusiasm that audiences responded to blaxploitation back in the 70s, then this would indicate an especially triumphant return.
Cumming makes «The Scottish Play» an electric event, allowing modern audiences a chance to experience it with the same excitement, horror and wonder Shakespeare's contemporary audiences surely felt.
It was truly the golden age of brawlers and beat - em - ups, but since then the genre has struggled to reach contemporary audiences.
In an act to re-place historical content before contemporary audiences, Sherrie Levine's reprisal of iconic imagery, such as Stieglitz's Equivalents, provokes questions of authorship, originality, and artistic lineage, and encourages work to be experienced anew.
And yet the participatory, immersive aspect of Person of the Crowd signals a new way of presenting art that contemporary audiences expect — and it's one that deeply validates the attitude and practice of the flâneur as central to our modern, connected, urban existence.
Our goal is to remind contemporary audiences of his past achievements while at the same time introducing a number of never - before - seen works.»
Two works of art at the entrance to the exhibition signify both the specificity and capaciousness intrinsic to the unusual history of black folk art. Steven Ashby's Untitled (Hunter and Victim)(nd; collection of Robert A. Roth, Chicago) makes clear Majeed's intention to connect the art to contemporary audiences living in the era of Black Lives Matter (fig. 1).
But about 10 years ago, Hartung's estate went in search of galleries that would present this work to a new contemporary audience.
Pairing fairy tales with new artwork is not only a way of reemphasizing the stories» relevance to diverse contemporary audiences, but also a way of challenging the canned notions of beauty, good and evil, and identity that many have popularly ascribed to them.
These shocks and chills, which contemporary audiences have come to expect, were established early on and Paul Wegener's 1920 telling of the golem legend is a strong specimen.
I wonder whether its first viewers would have been as familiar with its story, based on the Keats poem, as say contemporary audiences might be with the storyline of a popular film.
Museum director Manuel Rabaté said in a statement: «[Louvre Abu Dhabi] has reinvented the 18th - century premise of the universal museum for a demanding contemporary audience
As the first Paik exhibition in Scotland, the birthplace of electromagnetic theory and television technology, Transmitted Live will demonstrate how revolutionary the artist remains for contemporary audiences in encouraging creative engagement with technology.
It also focuses on the concepts of imprisonment, freedom and justice, issues that continue to resonate with contemporary audiences
Above all, The Post directs the attention of contemporary audiences to a momentous episode.
And one way of making Ragnar sympathetic to a contemporary audience — and to challenge the cliché of the brutal, ignorant, bloodthirsty, and rapist Viking — was quite simple: to show him as, at heart, a family man with strong ethical belief.
Annotated and edited for a contemporary audience by Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Three Feet from Gold co-author Sharon Lechter, this book — now available in paper — is profound, powerful, resonant, and rich with insight.
This person knew that the chapter was full of meaning and featured the rich, evocative sound of names, names which mean very little to a contemporary audience but names of people who were a vital part of Christ's story.
Postmodern efforts to «save» the play» to make it «relevant» to contemporary audiences» are often equally unsatisfactory and substitute patronizing pity of Othello for Rymer's unvarnished contempt.
The Merchant of Venice can be an extremely troubling play for contemporary audiences.
More importantly it was arranged and edited and canonized in the 4th century and there have been roughly two millennia of hermeneutical traditions that have interpreted and reinterpreted scripture into relevance for a contemporary audience.
Redeemed., about what the story of Samson has to offer to contemporary audiences.
So it is proper and even necessary to ask, what was the religious significance of this miracle account to its contemporary audience?
Whether or not you believe that the miracle accounts are true, we need to extract their meaning, to understand the religious significance they had for their contemporary audience.
Allen P. Ross, in Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988, 744 pp., $ 29.99) states that his book is not a commentary of Genesis, but a guide to help teachers and preacher appreciate the richness and complexity of the narratives and to organize the theological teaching for presentation to a contemporary audience.
Located in a grandly restored bank, The Ordinary is a repository of East Coast seafood traditions, polished for a contemporary audience and paired with precisely the right...
In June of 2017, Panconesi announced a new project, LVR Editions, stating his desire to «create something engaging and exclusive that speaks directly to a contemporary audience
Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» is a live - action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs.
But this game also features all limits of its genre: dialogues are often too long and there are design limits that are not common to the contemporary audience.
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