Sentences with phrase «uses cultural tropes»

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As a master of literary fiction in the American Gothic tradition, Jackson always subverted the trappings of genre, using the classic tropes of the haunted house and the mysterious villagers to illustrate deep cultural and personal anxieties.

Humour is a stronger force within indie titles than it is in AAA but it must be remembered that humour is a powerful cultural tool, and recreating a damaging trope such as the Damsel in Distress one, even if done so jokingly, does not necessarily excuse its use in the first place.

This may simply be another set of cultural tropes that only feel fresh because I'm not as used to them.

Previous exhibitions include One is the loneliest number (2011), featuring artist duos based in Philadelphia and elsewhere; Summer Studio with Anthony Campuzano (2010), a month - long free art school and working artist's studio in the ICA galleries; Touch Sensitive: Anthony Campuzano (2009), the first museum show of an artist whose work is largely text - based; and Asking Not Telling (2009), a video show presenting works that use the tropes of documentary filmmaking to capture, record, (re) record, and represent cultural memory.