Sentences with phrase «white audience while»

Pollack shoots this scene with a real starkness, keeping it confrontational towards the film's white audience while shying away from deifying Lee.

Entertainment has a long history of presenting stereotypical images of black people that seemed to be pleasing to some white audiences while minimizing black lives.

Not exact matches

While Cameron has ordered the blue - and - white Scottish flag to be flown over his office at No. 10 Downing Street until the vote, his critics noted that he did not risk speaking before an uninvited audience of Scots on the street.

While the characteristics mentioned in the previous section dominate in the audience of religious television programs, evidence suggests that these programs are watched on occasion and in some cases regularly by non - Protestants, non-evangelicals, those of higher income and education, those in white - collar occupations, and those who claim no religious interest or church affiliation.

In Jamaica, Marley had been a folk hero, and while he had achieved incredible fame, Dick Hebidge argues that many Jamaicans were proud of him for his ability to get white audiences to pay attention to his songs of Black retribution (4).

Mesmerise your audience in a formal black trouser and blazer over an off - white blouson while you let a pale - yellow stole run around your neck and fall in neat pleats over the front.

While it makes sense for any movie about the yakuza to peak the interests of curious American audiences, using a white person as the way into this world is a tired cliche.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

Wonderstruck will likely divide audiences who can't make it past the sharp contrast of two stories being told simultaneously; one is silent, in black and white, while the other in color with audio.

GET OUT Fri, May 5, 9:35 p.m.; Sat, May 6, 9:35 p.m. Can an impeccably crafted horror film tackle issues of racism and white privilege in America while also inspiring sold - out audiences to laugh and clap in unison?

They also deserve a certain amount of respect for what they've accomplished these past five years, including figuring out a way to lower production costs while maximizing their profits, and targeting a dependable niche audience dumb enough to see films like «Scary Movie» and «White Chicks.»

But it is extraordinarily difficult to understand how anyone — particularly someone in an audience at an august, Ivy League university — can think it's fair to label her a «white supremacist»... or stand by while others do so.

RSD Superintendent John White listens while an audience member speaks at Johnson School.

White Noise is a sensory experience inviting the audience to walk on salt while moving through a space.

In the 1952 «event», the Black Mountain lecturer MC Richards and the poet Charles Olsen read poetry from ladders; Rauschenberg's «White Paintings» hung overhead while he played Edith Piaf records on an old phonograph; David Tudor played the piano; Merce Cunningham danced in and around the audience (chased by a barking dog); and Cage sat on a step - ladder for two hours - sometimes reading a lecture on the relation of music to Zen Buddhism, sometimes listening silently.

While I may not be unbiased, since the author draws upon work Aaron McCright and I have done, I think this is a very insightful use and extension of social science research that is packaged in a manner that is likely to be effective in reaching a crucial audience — presumably a heavily conservative, white male one.

The White House plans to allow the Department of Transportation and the Fish and Wildlife Service to rehabilitate the land and vegetation along the highway, allocating resources to educate «target audiences» about conservation efforts, while also working with the Mexican and Canadian governments on broader strategies that cross borders.

While the legitimacy of the white paper and its actual association with Telegram has not been confirmed by the Durov brothers, who founded Telegram, the white paper promises some interesting applications to users of the messaging app and wider audiences.

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