Sentences with phrase «with celebrity culture»

Of course Capitalist Realism had no such reputation in the U.S.; the artists were parodying the overnight ascendance of Pop Art, with its celebrity culture and embrace of everyday commodities, as well as the German craze for all things American.
Over the years, Flood has made collages dealing with celebrity culture, reassembling iconic images to absurd effect.
It will examine how they use their art to respond to the urgent social issues that have arisen out of technology and our online identities — focusing on gender, sexuality and the obsession with celebrity culture.
He draws on the interaction between illusion and picture plane of 60s Op art, as well as a Warholian fascination with celebrity culture.
We are faced with a celebrity culture that often highlights the most fame hungry above the quiet achievers and, although we may not like it, we can probably understand why this happens.
She now has to use her wits to deal with the celebrity culture and image awareness of Los Angeles to find the real killer.

Not exact matches

Canada's original celebrity economist on the problem with Bay Street's «up or out» culture and why she'll never truly retire
The mode has completely taken over video game culture, with everyone from celebrities to major game streamers to your kids playing either «Fortnite» or «PUBG.»
A lot of celebrities put their name on something like a clothing line and suddenly they come out with 500 SKUs and no one understands how that could happen because there was no culture, no message... they just suddenly appeared.
But Twitter quickly began to penetrate popular culture in unexpected ways, with its open design and broadcasting format attracting celebrities, athletes, politicians and anybody who wanted to share short, punchy thoughts with a digital audience.
From whirlwind celebrity romances to your best friend moving halfway across the country to be with a guy she's known for a month, the phrase «love makes you do crazy things» is never more true than in our current culture of immediacy.
Ali Gilkeson of Irish band Rend Collective Experiment agrees: «[The touring worship trend] has a tendency of promoting a celebrity culture that's at odds with the value of humility.
Again, I really want to stress this is not about the messy never ending post divorce antics with an NPD but the culture of leaders in this publishing / speaking / minor celebrity circle that have smeared names and reputations in order to appear one way while behind the scenes another story is going on.
(Sadly, our churches can sometimes resemble our culture instead of Jesus — witness our fascination with militarism, entertainment cults of celebrity, power, materialism, and patriarchal culture and so on.)
Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.
In addition to the expected human drama that comes along with any reality gameshow, the StartupBus is also a fascinating look at a modern pathway to (relative, at least) fame in a culture obsessed with celebrity.
Will my few minutes with Maya change our multibillion dollar beauty industry, reality shows that demean women, our celebrity - manic culture?
I've long admired J.R.'s take on ministry, so it was honor to talk with him about what it means for pastors to serve with faithfulness, regardless of the outcome, in a culture that idolizes celebrity and success.
It takes for granted the culture of celebrity and affluence and overlooks the question of whether it is morally possible to live with integrity at any level of material comfort in our industrialized society.
My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne and Yeezus represented a hard thematic turn: They deal with the opulence of celebrity culture and the intoxicating power of wealth and fame — as well as, ultimately, all of the inner darkness they can bring forth.
Because it's a heck of a lot easier to dish it out than it is to eat it up, let me tell you, and I think sometimes we inadvertently perpetuate celebrity culture by railing so loudly against it, by feeding into the caricatures with our derision.
Synonymous with the Sugar Factory brand, Couture Pops have become a pop culture phenomenon and have made confections a celebrity accessory.
I know with the whole brand engagement, TV and media it is a relatively new and necessary thing in a culture of marketing, celebrity and no privacy.
With new celebrity babies comes new celebrity baby names, many of which make pop culture fanatics stop and scratch their heads.
In a world inundated with celebrity magazines and websites it's hard to not copy what our pop culture is showing us.
BabyCenter.com does, and Editor - in - Chief Linda Murray spoke with us about some of them, and how parents are influenced by pop culture, celebrity, and even royalty when it comes to naming the newest members of their family.
I know, I know — we've all gone bonkers with the HOW I LOST THE BABY WEIGHT AND THEN SOME HERE I AM IN A BIKINI ON THE COVER OF US WEEKLY THREE DAYS LATER celebrity mom culture, but the fact is that I really did feel quite unhappy with how I looked, as completely unrealistic as I was being.
Do celebrities with Beyoncé's massive influence on young kids have a moral obligation to consider the horrendous impact of excessive soda consumption in our culture when they mull over megabuck branding opportunities?
The Royals as victims of unfair public pressure («the system is unfair to the Royals themselves as much as anybody» is a more powerful one post-the 1990s, and with our particular form of celebrity culture (which the Royals have themselves used post the 1960s with the first family argument).
What Britain Needs: Proportional Representation Closed Primaries No F *** ing American Style politics with all the stupid celebrities, big cash donations and anti-government culture.
Continue reading «Agreeing with IDS, Nick de Bois MP says the «celebrity culture» of the X Factor is distorting the realistic ambitions of young people»»
And our culture has taken huge strides in that arena this year, with countless celebrities like Chrissy Teigen, Selena Gomez, and even Kanye West vulnerably sharing their own mental health struggles.
Lean women have cellulite, healthy women have cellulite, vegan women have cellulite, paleo women have cellulite, celebrities have cellulite, body builders have cellulite, bikini models have cellulite, women in isolated cultures who still live a hunter - gatherer lifestyle have cellulite, women with access to unlimited amounts of plastic surgery have cellulite.
The rise of a sharing culture where anyone can be a celebrity is key to promoting fatshion and removing the stigma associated with plus sizes, said Nicolette Mason, the 26 - year - old who writes the Marie Claire column.
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Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming The Medium Awareness trope as used in popular culture.
Comedian Chelsea Handler travels the globe and sits down with celebrity guests to discuss such topics as international cultures; alternative lifestyles; education; health; sports; parenting; politics; and more.
Imagine a culture, a world like our own, where the popular masses are so into celebrities, that they pay money to be injected with the same disease a celebrity recently had to feel a sort of «biological communion.»
This might have been a savvy satire on today's celebrity - struck media culture, but Niccol unfolds the story at a lumbering pace, peppered with not - funny gags and dramatic scenes that build little emotional power.
A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.
But so great is this culture's obsession with her that Syd has developed a nice little side - line peddling her infections on the black market to a man who, by day, sells celebrity steaks grown from the cells of the star of your choosing.
Separate, we're only left with a half - boiled detective mystery that clumsily wants to say something about the toxic celebrity culture we live in today.
At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.
MacFarlane has a well - established penchant for pop - culture references and celebrity cameos in his projects, and Ted 2 continues that tradition with some fun re-appearances from the first film, as well as some new additions that will be great for fans of films and / or MacFarlane's animated universe.
During his arduous rehab, he tries to reconcile with his girlfriend (Tatiana Maslany) while dealing with the exploitative nature of celebrity in a culture of trite hashtags and soundbites.
The «self» credits begin in 1995 and consist of a variety of comedy showcases, including: multiple «HBO Comedy Half - Hour» and «Hollywood Squares» episodes, VH1's «I Love the»80s» and other pop culture specials, two celebrity roasts, and eleven appearances on each «Late Night with Conan O'Brien» and «Jimmy Kimmel Live!»
Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.
In the recurring segment, James Corden hops in a car with a famous celebrity, usually a chart - topping singer but sometimes just another figure in pop culture, and they cruise around Los Angeles jamming out to an assortment of songs in the car, just like you and me.
Designed as a ruthless satire of everything from Youtube celebrity to viral videos to America Idol / The Voice culture, a microcosm of a world in which website hits directly correlate with self - worth (hence the film's title).
Adding to tons of pop culture references (Star Wars, Aliens, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, celebrities like Reynolds himself and Hugh Jackman) and two cameos of Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld (the latter is at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children), Tim Miller tied the knot with impressive fight choreography and a timely, mood - setting presence of Junkie XL's scores.
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