Sentences with phrase «uses black humor»

Inspired by cartoons and comic books, her work uses black humor and the aesthetic of popular imagery to examine pressing social and political concerns.

In these performances, often staged in nature with no audience, the Truppe are as apt to commemorate the passing of an unusual cloud as they are to be found documenting their own attempts to flee the rising waters of a warming planet, or using black humor to comment upon the extinction of bats or other animals.

Not exact matches

Although the mental and physical problems from metal toxicity have escalated in recent years, our very language tacitly acknowledges the historic toxicity of certain metals: «Mad as a hatter» from the Civil - War - era's crazed use of mercury sizing in hat manufacture, «gold fever» from the murderous greed of early prospectors, «lead poisoning» as black humor for «getting shot,» and, more recently, «get - the - lead - out» exhortations from trainers who would have us exercise long and hard in order to sweat out toxins and melt excess fat.

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

In its time, Scream resurrected a basically dying genre, using clever meta - analysis and black humor.

There's a certain black humor to the situation (Alvarez uses the belated arrival of a «Day 2» title card to underline how fast things got fucked), but also a charge of real - world resonance, extending beyond the boundaries of the experiment depicted to more ugly examples of group think and abuse of power.

Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people with a filmmaking that combined a documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors) with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.

Overrated Bernie The interviews with the townsfolk are charming and funny and Matthew McConaughey looks hilariously unbeefcake - like, but otherwise, Richard Linklater's latest seems like a lot of easy regional humor used to ease along an overly slack story based on a true murder, with Jack Black turning in what's basically just a more mannered variation on the performance he usually gives.

The bad lighting, the ridiculous bear, the use of stock footage and White's perfectly delivered speech that begins serious and ends with him doing a brief, but offensive impression of a maimed Chinese boy are all funny and demonstrate the different ways «Black Dynamite» approaches humor.

Black is still great as Po, being one of the only two roles that I feel actually uses his charm and humor correctly (the other being School of Rock).

From Captain America recognizing a Wizard of Oz reference, to Black Widow's comments about the climactic battle, the smart script uses levity and humor to keep the story humming even when the action has slowed down.

MacConnel was a leader in the 1970s Pattern and Decoration movement, and since then has been using colorful fabrics, found materials, garishly bright paint, and black humor to bring light to much more than just decoration.

The self - described «the friendliest black artist in America,» Pope.L uses a mixture of humor, re-appropriated symbolism, and the stereotypes that seek to neutralize the black American, as his weapons to address and unmask these ghosts.

Maurizio Cattelan is notorious for using unabashedly bad - boy black humor to resist easy classifications of identity.

Through a convergence of interest in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity and women's work, her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in self - making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions.

Syms» use of humor in the film instantly calls to mind the many late night comedy show skits that have the tendency to poke fun at a perceived notion of black womanhood.

The presence of humor and absurdity in her work is used to disarm the intensity that seems inherent when engaging in the discourse of black culture.

It can be extremely offensive in its use of black humor and subversive jokes, addressing issues of violence, war, the Holocaust, genetic manipulation and death in all their inhumanity.