Sentences with phrase «with grand narratives»

Likewise if you are working on the history of philosophy you might take an interest in the rise of religions or science and turn to either Hegel or Marx with their grand narratives attempting to explain the evolution of human civilization, whereas if you are interested in the history of philosophy you might consider Frederick Copleston — who is largely just trying to describe in layman's terms and in chronological order different philosophical systems.

Declan Clarke's powerful films intertwine personal subjectivity and action with grand narratives and explorations of the historical edifices of power.

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Regarding the «eternal purpose», I agree with N.T. Wright that there is a grand narrative of the Bible.

Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.

Like the composer Stew did in his 2006 rock musical «Passing Strange,» Eagle makes grand narrative connections across «Brick Body Kids...» and does so through his skills as a storyteller and rapper with a sublimely confident flow.

Winning big this year was the comedy Natural Selection with seven different awards including Grand Jury Winner for Narrative Feature.

Fiona (Jessica Lange) is finally dead, after one last inevitable revival or fake - out or reversal, and apparently destined to spend her eternity catfishing with the Axeman (Danny Huston) in a realm presided over by Papa Legba (Lance Reddick), a demonic entity that's retrospectively revealed to be entirely superfluous to Coven's grand narrative scheme.

This week, CJ's in conversation with writer / director Paul Taylor and producer Alex Megaro of Driftwood, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative at Slamdance this year.

Venice Film Festival British filmmaker Andrea Arnold would have been 16 years old when Kate Bush topped the UK pop charts with «Wuthering Heights,» a swirling art - rock ballad that stripped the Emily Brontë novel for which it is named down to a few key lines and narrative details, but evoked its grand - scale tragic romance in -LSB-...]

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson, 2017) Possible to analytically compare with Jenkin's grand epic, fellow female filmmaker Angela Robinson's narrative tells the story behind Wonder Woman as a cartoon character and becomes a refreshing and bold story of polyamorous love between the visual and narrative creator of Wonder Woman and his two leading ladies (his wife, and his open - minded female student).

The narrative is unusually framed, beginning in the present day with an unnamed author (Tom Wilkinson) relaying an encounter he had as a young writer (his younger self played by Jude Law) with the owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel (F. Murray Abraham).

A whole narrative thread with Michael Stuhlbarg's Hoffstetler serving as a covert spy also serves little purpose in the grand scheme of the film, only really establishing the era's geopolitical stakes.

SIFF 2011 Short Film Jury Awards As a qualifying festival of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, short films that receive the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative short film and Best Animation short film awards at SIFF may qualify to enter the Short Films category of the Academy Awards ® for the concurrent season without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.

I chatted with Ahn about life after Dol, which screened at more than 30 festival venues and won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at Outfest: LA, and the inspiration and research behind Spa Night.

The book opens in the grand tradition of coming - of - age novels distinguished by their hypnotic, first - person narrators, but while the voice of British teenager Holly Sykes can hold its own with those of Holden Caulfield or John Green's Hazel Grace Lancaster, it is merely the opening salvo in this multivoiced, harmonically layered narrative symphony that stretches — with occasional sojourns far back in time — from the 1980s, when Holly runs away from home, into the 2040s, when she is attempting to cope with an oil - depleted world descending into chaos.

This means every single Main Competition finalist in each of the jury - voted categories - the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence In Design, Excellence In Art, Excellence In Narrative, Excellence in Audio, and even the Nuovo Award - can work directly with Steam to bring their titles to PC, Mac and Linux.

Stealth, all - out action and car chases are all combined and mixed with the hacking mechanics to create arguably one of the best selections of campaign missions seen in a game of this nature, perhaps even surpassing the design of Grand Theft Auto V's narrative missions in terms of gameplay.

It was the Grand Theft Auto series» shift into 3D with Grand Theft Auto III that raised the bar for game - making, as players were immersed in a highly detailed, open world where they could explore gritty urban locations and follow the game's narrative at their own pace.

Infinite Fall's Night in the Woods was nominated three times (Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Visual Art and Excellence in Narrative), as is Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Design and Nuovo Award).

All in all, it's a great side mission that showcases the game's grand, interstellar scope, along with its narrative versatility and how it can impact the gameplay.

When one of gaming's grandest serious narratives starts with its protagonist wanking in a cupboard, something doesn't quite hold together.

With a narrative written by renowned Black Library author Gav Thorpe, the game takes players on a grand and immersive journey through the infested hallways of a labyrinth of space ships.

This means every single Main Competition finalist in each of the jury - voted categories - the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence In Design, Excellence In Art, Excellence In Narrative, Technical Excellence, Excellence in Audio, and even the Nuovo Award - can work directly with Steam to bring their titles to PC, Mac and Linux.

That feeling of lament is mostly born out of my love for Rockstar's narrative approach with Grand Theft Auto IV.

The resulting installation is an inviting stage set, complete with Hamilton's newly built furniture, a grand piano, and curious whispers of narratives that traverse across people, time and places.

These masterworks of narrative compositions are astutely conscious of flatness, illusion, and draftsmanship, with dynamic brushwork and colors that freely incorporate comics and pop culture as much as they sample the grand tradition.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

Reported Missing (2003), which was shot in Stockholm, Italy, Easter Island, Chile, the Grand Canaries, and Australia, is a fragmented narrative of suggestive moments charged with emotion and imagination of self.

«Epic Paintings» carries with it a sense of history and tradition, grand style, ambitious, and larger - than - life narratives of the human condition.

Grand in scale, these labyrinthine yet surprisingly intimate works cover the entire wall space, rife with personal narrative, political metaphor, and a myth that emphasizes memory, loss, love, and exile in times of war and peace.

Upon completing her Curatorial Masters at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, she was awarded a two - year Fellowship for Cultural Innovation and most recently worked as a Robert Bosch fellow, with a focus on Tirana and South Eastern Europe and «art after the end of the grand narratives».

One compact definition offered is that while post-modernism acts in rejection of modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, and to eradicate the boundaries between high and low forms of art, to disrupt genre and its conventions with collision, collage and fragmentation.

''... The reader is tempted with an array of dazzling images and supporting essays to tease out their own grand narratives.

In Proximity II, a new four - color woodcut produced with 10 Grand Press, Kantarovsky continues his project of building narrative from figuration, depicting an isolated, sympathetic subject engaged in an ambiguous activity.

Titled «Memory as Medicine,» this near - two - decade survey (organized by Carol Thompson and Michael Rooks of the originating High Museum of Art in Atlanta) featured thirty - one works riffing on key chapters from the grand narrative of black history, with frequent allusions to tribal West Africa, aptly demonstrating the artist's inspired ability to present his modern world as a continuum with his genetic past.

His paintings follow the grand traditions of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, but with new narratives in which black people are the central figures.

The rise of the grand narrative, as many readers will know, has been littered with deeply worrying statements, of which the following are perhaps some of the more notorious: «Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen» (Sir John Houghton); «To capture the public imagination we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have.

With this preceding the quote:» Nevertheless, climate change has become a grand narrative in which human - caused climate change has become a dominant cause of societal problems.»

Politicians, activists, media stimulating an «availability cascade» — call it what yer will, «grand narrative», «self re-enforcing process of collective belief formation,» — it's «propaganda» - «a deliberate act ter narrow the viewpoints and policy options that we are willing to consider in dealing with complex issues such as public health, weather disasters and national security.»

Legacy argues that Grand Theft Auto V was missing key ingredients that Rockstar is known for, namely a sharply defined storyline with unique narratives and a main character players could become emotionally attached to.