Sentences with phrase «western pop culture»

Love it or hate it the Call of Duty series has become an iconic staple of the medium and western pop culture.

Luxurious materials, like pearls, crystals, and gold - leaf, can pull double - duty as reference to both the religious traditions of Iranian art and the opulent superficiality of Western pop culture.

Musical icons Prince, David Bowie, and Jimi Hendrix brought shades of Ultra Violet to the forefront of western pop culture as personal expressions of individuality.»

When it comes to mixing things up, Mongolian artist Solongo Monkhooroi has a wonderful way of combining Western pop culture and Eastern traditional art to create these stunning illustrations.

Hajime Isayama in particular is a huge fan of Western pop culture and wanted other creators to take a shot at his world.

When Wuxia features like Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the like fitted themselves snuggly into the cracks of western pop culture, it was easy to see how.

In the past 30 years of western pop culture (we'll get to Studio Ghibli in a moment too...) we have Wonder Woman, Lt. Ellen Ripley, Buffy Summers and Foxy Brown.

Not exact matches

Based on Marjane Satrapi's auto - graphic - novel, Persepolis is the simple and bracingly beautiful tale of Marjane growing up in 1970s Iran, where her curiosity, imagination and love of Western pop - culture trash gets her in trouble with the police state imposed after the revolution.

Of course he pops out on the end with something to the effect that the morality and culture of the entire western world relies on one believing in HIS religion.

He's not just identifying moments where pop culture's twisted racial logic is made blatant, as in King Kong or John Wayne westerns or the career of Stepin Fetchit.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

by Bill Chambers Although it inspired the quintessential U.S. crime picture of the past decade, Ringo Lam's 1987 Hong Kong action - thriller City on Fire suffers in a freshly - Americanized form: Dubbed and revised dialogue does not Reservoir Dogs make it, and the few nods to western pop - culture induce groans.

Though that enduring popularity cemented him a place in pop culture and film history, the actor worked almost exclusively in westerns,

Dead Man Year: 1995 Director: Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch directed this post-modern examination of the western film genre as American pop culture finally began to veer away from the expected western films.

It's no secret that, like fellow Japanese pop culture gaming icon Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter has had a tough and bitter battle winning over Western gamers.

will find a lot to like here: bad taste gags and pop culture references abound, and some jokes — including a reference to one of cinema's more unconventional Westerns — rank among the funniest that MacFarlane has written in years.

An eastern - based philosophy using meditation and yoga has been part of western culture since the pop - group the Beatles gave it a big push.

In an endless sea of rock and pop formats, The Moody Blues have distinguished themselves through four decades as that shimmering jewel vindicating rock music as a substantial artistic contribution to Western culture.

With a script by a famous Japanese writer and a game overflowing with Western pop - culture influences, EarthBound stands out as one of Nintendo's most fascinating localization projects ever.

Each stage is based around popular Western misconceptions about ninja and Japan, making the game world a fantastic mix of ninja and American pop culture.

Her works draw from the classical canon of Western art, pop art, and visual cultures to examine complex notions of femininity, beauty, race, sexuality and gender.

His newest works scan art history, but his forays into fashion and sneaker culture are a futuristic look into how Asian pop culture, fine art and Western sneakerculture can all coexist and collide.

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Hanting Zhang's pop mixture portraits combine the western and eastern cultures to use superheroes as subject to uphold justice.

Her works often juxtapose Eastern philosophy with Western culture; pop culture with traditional Japanese identity.

Though often associated with Japanese pop culture, anime and manga, his work is greatly influenced by the post-war Japan and growing up in the rural north of the country, reading illustrated children's books and listening to Western music from the radio of a nearby military base.

Thomas, born in 1971, is known for lush rhinestone - encrusted paintings that combine references to iconic artworks from the Western canon and 1970s» pop culture.

Yousif unifies symbols and artifacts from her past in conversation with western contemporary aesthetic codes and pop culture hues.

But nothing could compare to their first early years of creation, when the two artists broke down the lines separating mass culture and fine art, paving the way for Pop Art and changing Western Art history forever.

Fujita blends Eastern techniques (anime, partitioned screens, ukiyo - e), and elements (geishas, warriors, demons), with Western, urban imagery (Latino graffiti, U.S. pop culture imagery) in a way that is stunning and vibrant, yet harmonious.

Elizabeth Zvonar uses collage, sculpture, and photography to question and critique Western art from the Classical period to pop culture today.

Now he filters the traditions of his homeland through a Western pop sensibility, often pairing hypermodern and fabled human figures with the remains of pop culture iconography in surreal situations that defy immediate logic.

In an endless sea of rock and pop formats, The Moody Blues have distinguished themselves through four decades as that shimmering jewel vindicating rock music as a substantial artistic contribution to Western culture.

In an endless sea of rock and pop formats, The Moody Blues have distinguished themselves through four decades as that shimmering jewel vindicating rock music as a substantial artistic contribution to Western culture.