Sentences with phrase «touched on both consumerism»

The exhibition also touched on both consumerism (Clive Barker's Blue Coke) and anti-consumerism (Mario Schifano's Propaganda): contrasting messages that are inherent in Colin Self's Hot Dog 5 from 1964, which uses the staple of the hot dog in U.S. fast - food culture as a metaphor to comment on Amercia's expanding nuclear arsenal.

Not exact matches

A brilliant sequence in which Kenneth and gun - shop owner Andy (Bruce Bohne), marooned across a parking lot on the roof of his store, engage in a game of celebrity skeet shooting (the zombie «Burt Reynolds» gets one in the brainpan, which, by itself, earns the picture a recommendation) touches on our relationship to the cult of celebrity in the same breezy way as its commentary on consumerism.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

Peskine bridges the gap between graphic design and fine art by using the same design aesthetic to appeal to the masses, as his work often touches on the ideology of consumerism and mass consumption.

Through bursts of colour and a myriad of characters, the work touched on a range of themes, often channelling the ecstasy and anxiety of consumerism.

Titled Hunter Games, the large - scale works feature renderings of figures in classical Greek contrapposto poses and touch on the links between visual culture and violence, gun control, and consumerism.