| 单词 | trope |
| 例句 | To Colin's mind, the rooster crowing at dawn was nothing more than a literary and cinematic trope. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The naming of those tools—the figures and tropes—is what gives rhetoric its sometimes opaque-seeming technical vocabulary. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But as I’ll hope to show, figures and tropes are essentially very straightforward things that happen to have Greek and Latin names. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A trope, which is just a way to believe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Blogs and video-logs, and the online arguments in comment threads and chat rooms, have spawned new tropes and figures, and new uses for the old ones. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Parallel wording is a powerful trope, but after dying and being born, being here in my place and seeing the light of day, enough is enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And what he’s chiefly remembered for is a heroic attempt to domesticate the figures and tropes of classical oratory by giving them English names and English examples. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z There is a sort-of attempt to make a distinction between figures and tropes—the former operating at the level of a phrase or sentence, and the latter being shifts in meaning for single words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Well, right now, it’s the desert island trope that’s sucking me down. Would you help me out of here?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It’ll say to the world, “Look, a movie by a teen girl of color! Yes, women direct movies too! And we don’t have to rely on the same old tropes—Dracula can be Dracu-lass!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Fukunaga: I think we all wanted to — and I would say Barbara included — that we didn’t want to fall into the trope of abandoning the last girl and moving on to the next one. Q&A: James Bond director Cary Fukunaga on ‘No Time to Die’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z A lot of artists, including many male artists, have used art to deconstruct masculinity or reveal its pathetic nature, most often using tropes of abjection or self-destruction. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z It was a silly trope that plays with a lot of audiences, but at this point historically that theme is overplayed. Gay-rights activists give their verdict on Stonewall: 'This film is no credit to the history it purports to portray' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z It gave rise to its own tropes: the vomiting rookie, the nonchalant pathologist. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier build the perfect TV detective 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z If Macbride is right, then while the two genres might be happy to appropriate each other's tropes when it suits them, perhaps the twain shall never fully meet. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z There's no weirdness or judgment or jealousy or any of the sort of tropes that you very often see associated with same-sex storylines. "Dead to Me" creator on the show's secret to success: "I'm interested in genre-nonconforming" 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, the idea that health food is actually "hippie food" stuck, a correlation that has been represented in film and TV over and over again to the point of becoming an enduring trope. From "Bad Vegan" to "Broad City," how pop culture "others" health food 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Tinafey is a kind, engaging character, a decisive departure from the trope of the sexual and therefore evil femme fatale, and their romance gives this hard-boiled novel a measure of earnest sweetness. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Because you get to put in all those tropes and all your worries and the phone calls with agents and just the doubt. "Shining Vale" creator on the horror of midlife: "Depression and possession share similar symptoms" 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Anderson was a man portraying a woman, but he eschewed some of the more well-trodden tropes of drag. Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Though the fake baby trope is wildly misleading, it’s true that reborn collectors don’t see their reborns as merely toys. 'People don't get it': inside the world of hyper-realistic baby doll collecting 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The “sassy best friend” trope has been a TV cliche for years; OITNB, an ensemble drama telling stories of women in prison, firmly rejects those stereotypes. Laverne Cox: 'Now I have the money to feminise my face I don’t want to. I’m happy' 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Yet, the argument that these tropes would simply be wiped out had Seinfeld been prematurely canned is less than watertight. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z This trope, Wilson knew, sat uneasily with certain Western ideas about Muslims. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Noreen, the mother of Bill's most recent child, falls into the single mom trope trap of being young and emotionally stunted, like TV single moms from Lorelai to Annie on "Good Girls." "Sweet Magnolias" is full of single moms – too bad it misses what solo parenting is really like 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The realism is disrupted by the occasional touch of surrealism, most especially a sequence in which a statue of Christ comes to life for the hallucinating hero, a recurrent trope of Catholic movies. Neds ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:53Z In pregnancy, birth and young life, the horror tropes abound. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z With music that hints of Copland, Mr. Huang tries to rescue the trope of the affirming American anthem from triteness. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Lady Bird is in many ways a feminist recalibration of the sort of genre tropes associated with the teen film. Youth in revolt: is Lady Bird the first truly feminist teen movie? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The usual witchy tropes are present – warts, cauldrons, familiars – but they are upgraded, made suitable and sensible. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z “Nobody Is Ever Missing” subverted the trope of the disappearing woman by placing it in a conceptual narrative about a woman who had disappeared herself. Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It's playing with a whole range of music video tropes and cliches and stereotypes.” Director Mark Romanek defends Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' video 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Like “The Gifted School,” Tilney’s book eschews the trope of the alienated narrator. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z I wanted to dispense with all the movie tropes: the clean through-line, the idea of the hero. Cover Story: Kathryn Bigelow’s Art of Darkness 2013-01-24T12:35:23Z The Returned takes many of the familiar killer zombie tropes and gives them an unfamiliar twist. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z Impressively, many of the tropes that made Monsters an unexpected indie hit remain, notably the tangible tenderness in the central human relationships, which just happen to be interrupted by the arrival of massive marauders. Godzilla review – Gareth Edwards's reboot shows an appreciation of Ishiro Honda's original 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z She’s caught between a meek, accommodating persona and that of a powerful entity, a well-worn trope from animated series, especially anime. Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Through Frances, "Conversations with Friends" probes the trope of the suffering woman, exploring its limits as well as the intimacies it makes possible. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z In the screening I was at, the biggest reactions from the mainly black audience were the knowing laughs whenever Peele took on tropes people recognised from real life. Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z You typically will see variations of this trope in movies like "Dances With Wolves" and in vehicle branding as a mark of pride, trust and integrity. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z But what in the book is sly and intriguing becomes heavy and calculating: one after another, the tropes of international theatre come on to the stage. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z In fact, the trope of a villain tying a damsel in distress to a railway line and a masculine hero racing to her rescue was old hat by the time the movies began. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The marriage trope reintroduced her to the cinemagoing public as an adult: the face had filled out a little, still perfectly oval yet demure. Elizabeth Taylor: born to be Cleopatra 2011-03-23T19:59:58Z His latest work, American Night, dismantles the tropes of cowboy movies over five screens. Artist of the week 110: Julian Rosefeldt 2010-10-21T10:56:00Z And Ms. Curtis’s winking, merry performance is its own self-contained slasher-film trope. Review: ‘Scream Queens’ Spoofs Horror Spoofs 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Therefore when racist tropes pop up in the here and now, they're presented as harmless fun that nobody actually believes. Like it or not, it's comedy's turn to contend with its role in perpetuating systemic racism 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z An examination of many of the images and text in question confirmed the use of racist tropes in depicting Asian and Black characters. From erasure to recategorizing: What we should do with Dr. Seuss books 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z All art is built on influences, old forms, inherited tropes, even the greatest examples. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z "When you make a film about gambling and it's starring Mark Wahlberg, everyone thinks it's going to fall into the tropes of the genre," Wyatt said. For 'Gambler' director Rupert Wyatt, a career of rolling the dice 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z And it looks like this new season is, once again, going to spin time-traveling tropes upside-down. 'Rick and Morty' season 2 trailer is the dark and dirty 'Back to the Future' we need 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Dove does away with the popular commercial trope that Moms do all the work and Dads are bumbling idiots. Super Bowl commercials still sassy, but a little more classy as sexism fades in 2015 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Does the proximity of "world" and "dew" recall the "world of dew" trope which signals transience for the haiku poets? Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z It has its tropes and devices, its forms and conceits. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Week 1397, a fresh idea for any of several old cartoon tropes Psychiatrist to young woman on couch: “Well, It’s quite normal to hate your father, Tiffany. I hate him too.” Style Invitational Week 1420: Singing on the job 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The plot seems to be a pastiche of rather tired sci-fi tropes. Extant series premiere: Halle Berry's space conception is not immaculate 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Although Godzilla originated out of Japanese history and culture, when it crossed over into Hollywood, the setting of the films relied on tropes from colonial history. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z After watching it, I definitely had concerns about the tropes used and how those would be addressed in a modern context when we have much more knowledge and sensitivity around L.G.B.T.Q. issues. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z A zombie romance, then, seems to invert zombie tropes by jumping up and down on them repeatedly. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z A mini-series based on Stephen King’s “It” starring a demonic clown was broadcast around the same time, cementing the trope of the scary clown. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Cave has already dubbed Lawless a "wangster" movie, a rather unfortunate label for a film that deftly merges the tropes of the urban gangster and the rural western with considerable style. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z Like a game of “Clue,” they can be formulaic, with even their twists becoming accepted tropes — often as transparent as, say, a glass onion. At the Movies, Bagels, Onions and a Side Dish of Nothing 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z By those metrics, it is a robust time in Nashville for performers who are loyal to the genre’s roots and tropes, fluent in its history and proudly advancing it without too much disruption. Nashville Embraces Kane Brown and Jimmie Allen, Black Singers Upholding Genre Traditions 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Recasting stereotypes and offensive images is an essential trope within African American art. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z While hardly a game-changer, Edge of Tomorrow reworks its old tropes with wit and brio. Edge of Tomorrow review – Tom Cruise in born again blockbuster 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Even though these tropes came into being centuries ago as a result of colonial expeditions, they still underpin how space gets imagined in contemporary pop culture, revealing the everyday impact of old literary texts. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z "All those tropes — the fireman, the cop, the doctor — they're all characters of authority," said the actor. Channing Tatum buffs his body of work in 'Magic Mike XXL' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Prolific novelist Linwood Barclay delivers a clever twist on an old trope: heirs knocking off other heirs to inflate their own inheritance. Review | Five great new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to this spring 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Right from the beginning, a constant trope of these sessions appears, which is Dylan coming up with cursory or, more commonly, surrealistic titles for his compositions. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s possible that women are still struggling for parity because masculine tropes of “genius” are more prevalent in classical music than in any other art form. What Du Yun’s Pulitzer Win Means for Women in Classical Music 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z More supposed silent movie tropes that are actually rarely seen include custard pies and twirled moustaches. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z He seamlessly married those tropes to stylistic elements of a scene he may never have participated in but had long admired from afar. Mr. Chavarria Will See You Now 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z On Thursday, finally, two of them did, wrestling with the ideas of female strength and female identity without resorting to the obvious tropes of another era. At Fendi and Prada, Moving Beyond the Shoulder Pad 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Narrative arcs and character tropes are just rules to break. This Week in Fiction: Amelia Gray 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In a new show at Art + Practice in Leimert Park, artist Alex Da Corte takes the bright, commercial tropes of Pop art but uses them as a way of expressing more somber narratives. Essential Arts & Culture: The theatricality of the Olympics, Wall Street on stage, a Luis Buñuel opera 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z A deft speaker who uses traditional pastoral tropes like call and response, Mr. Bernard crafts his 45-minute sermons like mash-ups of a university lecture and a Baptist revival, though Mr. Bernard’s church is pointedly nondenominational. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z What are ways that stereotypes and tropes about strong Black women or women of color have actually been harmful? "Feminist AF" author on hip-hop & feminism today: "We're not playing nice anymore" 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The overall effect is a little garish, loud and simplistic, but it's his first movie and he follows the comedic tropes of situational repetition to good effect, while the shamelessly stereotypical Italian-American family works well. Sundance film festival 2013: Don Jon's Addiction - first look review 2013-01-21T17:03:51Z As a farce, “POTUS” still plays by old and almost definitionally male rules; farce is built on tropes of domination and violence. Review: In a Gleeful ‘POTUS,’ White House Enablers Gone Wild 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In the press, she was painted as being very flippant and inconsistent and the trope of a "hysterical woman." Sinéad O'Connor "refused to play the game": "Nothing Compares" filmmaker on the bold non-conformist 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Commentators swiftly pointed out that to defend oneself against accusations of anti-Semitism by insisting that one was using anti-Semitic tropes only to characterize some Jews, not all of them, is no defense at all. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Still, he thought that “You” had something to say about the tropes of romantic love and the queasy nexus of desire, power and abuse. Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It is a familiar trope: We are to be nice, and liked by everyone; or else we are labeled aggressive. What's Wrong with the Mommy Track? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z But Ms. Amirpour’s films are more than a sampling of her DVD collection; her engagement with familiar themes and classic tropes is as critical as it is admiring. Review: Cannibalism, Hallucinogens and Keanu: ‘The Bad Batch’ Has It All 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Perceptions of this romance hinge on how readers feel about the bad boy trope. How ‘The Kissing Booth’ went from a teenager’s passion project to a Netflix sensation 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Here, the director’s familiar tropes and touches infuse the story’s politics with a psychological intricacy much greater than that of the script alone. Movie of the Week: “Wichita” 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z They were more interested in the sound coming from Los Angeles in the mid-1960s than the punk tropes of a decade later. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Last year, she launched a successful Kickstarter campaign for a new series exploring what she considers harmful, sexist tropes in video games: What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Of course, another durable trope of the horror lexicon is the hard-won return to normalcy in the third act. ‘Suburbicon’ is the latest film that uses horror to process the realities of 2017 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “Westworld” is filmed in Castle Valley, Utah, where Ford filmed his last four Westerns, and it is built upon the foundation of tropes, clichés, and cinematic shorthand that Ford’s work popularized. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z For all its galactic wonders, “The Book of Strange New Things” is a subtle, meditative novel that winds familiar space-alien tropes around terrestrial reflections on faith and devotion. Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber Nobody, bar strange, self-contained exceptions such as Scott Walker or Kate Bush ever even manages to carve out a new identity unbeholden to the tropes of their youth. Morrissey's retirement will be the perfect ending 2012-06-07T15:40:01Z Like Morgan Freeman’s genial chauffeur before him, Mr. Church isn’t so much a person as a compendium of tropes about black servitude. Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired trope 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “Love at first sight” is a tired movie trope and a lousy standard for judging real-life compatibility. ‘I’m really good at not having bad dates’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Or so I thought, before encountering Jim Lewis’s extraordinary new novel, “Ghosts of New York,” a haunting collection of loosely linked vignettes that quickly exploded the tropes I’d associated with writing about place. A Novel of the City, Alive to Its Hidden Connections 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The man behind “Stalker,” Kevin Williamson, was also an architect of those movies, which succeeded because they had comic cores, parodying horror movie tropes. ‘Stalker’ Stars Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z You are constantly aware that the creators are falling back on tried-and-tested tropes from literary and cinematic horror: one story is set in a deserted warehouse, another in fog-shrouded woodland. Ghost Stories 2010-08-01T20:45:00Z "For people who enjoy reality shows, it embraces the tone and vibe and all the tropes of that type of show in a fun way," Ken Marino, the show's star and director told Reuters. Yahoo! stokes Internet flames with "Burning Love" 2012-06-04T18:29:52Z Despite the outcry, which has been revived over and over, Campbell believes she knows why the problematic trope has continued in the mega-popular franchise. James Bond hasn't changed much, and neither have his problematic villains after 25 films 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z A fan of genre films and blockbusters such as “Die Hard” and “Aliens,” he packed “Fire in Cardboard City” full of popcorn-movie tropes, gently subverted or made comic by the presence of paper. The Screening Room: “Fire in Cardboard City” 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z On TV Tropes, you can enjoy a kind of rabbit recursion, since one of the tropes is “down the rabbit hole.” The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Literary writers such as Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt and Michael Chabon increasingly deploy tropes and images from genre, while genre writers have upped their stakes considerably in terms of complexity, moral resonance and style. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z He was also taken by the Wyoming-set drama’s hybrid nature, combining a “supernatural, metaphysical aspect” and a classic trope, a family’s fight to keep its land. Josh Brolin: Tough rancher in ‘Outer Range,’ softie at home 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But it also makes for a lovely and lasting indictment of the avant-garde trends and tropes of his day. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z I definitely fall into the trap and trope that I need to work to get another job or continue working to satisfy my ego. Shailene Woodley on her "empowering" new movie in which she plays a woman caught between two men 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “Money Shot” includes some clichés from this subgenre — if I see one more tweet pop up onscreen with the chirp sound effect, I will fly away myself — but it mostly pushes against tropes. ‘Money Shot: The Pornhub Story’ Review: A Clear Eye on an Industry 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z You can replicate the characters and the tropes and narrative of these films. "Leonor Will Never Die" filmmaker on how she created her dreamy "action star grandma" 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z It's a refreshing inversion of the old-stud/trophy-wife trope, and as I dove into Season 3, I found myself harboring a hope that Gerri would finally get some sexual gratification for her trouble. Gerri & Roman: A one-way "Succession" lust story 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z It can be difficult to take genre movies that are this clichéd seriously, and doubly so when they insist on regurgitating tropes in a humorless register. Review: ‘There Are No Saints.’ Neither Are There New Plots. 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Cynical as we may have become about these tropes, it’s still a bummer when the parts don’t form a whole. Review | ‘Shrill’ and ‘Turn Up Charlie’ are passably cool TV shows that try too hard to be passably cool TV shows 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Wheatley develops all these tropes to melodramatic, sensationalist perfection. Review | The best horror novel since ‘Dracula’ and other scary reads for Halloween 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z We wanted to use a lot of the well-known tropes of alien and UFO lore and not go way out of the box and do something crazy. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z Critics and reporters at this summer’s TV press tour asked some of this season’s bearded best friends if they felt like part of a trope. Fall TV 2014: A sharp increase in bearded best friend There's a trope that all vegetarians eat are salads and pasta, to which I say, and the problem with that is . What's the actual difference between vegan and vegetarian? 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Their messaging pulls in history and tropes, science and fiction, nostalgia and wild speculation. Bezos Reaches for a Star 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z For me and other writers of color, the White Boyfriend offers a compelling opportunity to reconsider and rewrite classic and racist tropes within interracial romances. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Part of the new line of multicultural fantasy novels overseen by Rick Riordan — he of the popular Percy Jackson series — “Dragon Pearl” is a clever mash-up of Korean mythology and science fiction tropes. New Fantasy Novels for Kids (and Adults) Ready to Go Beyond Harry Potter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The vast majority of characters with disabilities, whether they're played by actors with disabilities or not, continue to represent the same outdated tropes. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z In an e-mail interview, Rowell discussed her writing, the pleasures of playing with pop culture and fantasy tropes, and whether she plans a sequel. Rainbow Rowell on ‘Stars Wars,’ the Bible and why she’s winking at you 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Still, in unspooling over a century of representation, Disclosure reveals how tropes, stereotypes and recognition thread and bake into the present, for better or for worse. Disclosure: behind Laverne Cox's Netflix documentary on trans representation 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “Nobody’s Daughter” sometimes taps into grunge nostalgia with its loud-soft alt-rock tropes and minor key melodies; there is a classic rock feel too, courtesy of the new band. Music: Courtney Love?s Improbable Second Act 2010-04-15T18:37:00Z Another Foster song — “Oh! Susanna” — gets an even more interesting overhaul, insidiously connecting the show’s all-purpose villain, Frederic Tiggens, as he fans the Irish rebellion, to racist Southern tropes. Review: In ‘Paradise Square,’ Racial Harmony Turns to Discord 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z I mean, that trope of, "Art has to come from the tortured artist," or "Genius and madness are so close," and that kind of thing. "It's a tool, it's a Swiss Army knife": Aimee Mann on how individuals deal with trauma through art 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Inevitable disappointment is also a piquant trope in narrative drama – understanding what won't happen next. Why theatre must never lose the plot 2010-10-08T15:37:00Z The new vaudevillians, like Bill Irwin and David Shiner who emerged in the 1980s and ’90s, aimed to reinvigorate clowning by deconstructing or winking at classic tropes. Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “But we thought the nature of this one would especially appeal to that market because it breaks the normal tropes of reality shows.” ‘Love Island’ in the Land of Gender Equality 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The finale itself closes our time with "BoJack Horseman" by calling upon another time-honored trope of sitcom, with a wedding that offers a happy ending to one person in BoJack's life, Princess Carolyn. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z “You laugh / Because I’m poor and black and funny,” the poem begins, speaking from the mouth of a racist trope: the acquiescent, happy-go-lucky Uncle Tom, the black clown. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z If you’re a writer or producer working on your latest project, here are six questions you should ask yourself to avoid making your black character into yet another unfortunate trope. Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired trope 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The tropes based on this framework define the categories of belonging: who is and who isn't human, whose life is worth living and whose isn't. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The film creates a powerful, expressive visual language rather than offering up tropes and shorthand. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s become a bit of a joke, this trope of placing him in jeopardy in order to let him use his ingenuity to escape. 'Gotham' Recap: Hallelujah! The Penguin Escapes Again 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z This narrative pivot to him is usually where the performative thrill yields to all those grim “Behind the Music” tropes, but Cooper’s film keeps its integrity here. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The lasting charm of this property, both on TV and the page is in its cheeky, loving homage to the world of superheroes even as it gently pokes fun at many of the genre’s tropes. “The Tick” struggles as it pits lunacy against modern ideas of comic book gravitas 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Actress Molly Ringwald pointed out that one reason for this trope is that jokes are often about a loss of power. Comedians have long used rape as a punchline. The Me Too era is changing that. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z But now, a new crop of would-be adventurers find themselves grasping for novel endeavors, and the time-sensitive challenge has become as tired a trope as the found-footage horror flick. Enough with the “year of” stunts! 2014-01-03T20:39:00Z In fact, all the standard tropes about her are wrong, or at least misleading. Was Jane Austen a ‘secret radical’? 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "I get so lonesome since the man has been gone," she sings, echoing a tired trope. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Shades, comical sneers … Brother have an instinctive grasp of the tropes of Britpop, and have duly polarised comment-leavers of standard indie sounds everywhere. This week's new live music 2011-02-12T00:05:30Z It’s only a small act of dehumanization, but it is such a common trope of anti-immigrant rhetoric that one would have expected Judis to be on guard against it. Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Still, Eye in the Sky, for all its moral value, has also had to take the tropes for a spin. Kill shots: why cinema has drone warfare in its sights 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Imagine how devastating it would have been had the stonework itself been defaced and left in ruins — a universal, visual trope for civilization’s collapse. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z He is that rare talent: able to work within the strictures of genre tropes and still deliver great stories and satisfying character development. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Which Joss Whedon Will We Get? 2013-09-23T20:19:18Z A couple of years ago, I took a deep dive into a common TV trope that exists across the broadcasting spectrum, from prestige shows to sitcoms. From the ambitious to the everyday, cookbooks are a magical portal to our culinary futures 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The team had become victim to another BBC continuity announcement trope they liked to satirise: “Except for viewers in Scotland/Northern Ireland/Wales.” Monty Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks, edible props and dead parrots 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Despite some pretty violent scenes, there are no obvious horror tropes, for example, making the film all the more scary because the audience has no idea what to expect. Week in geek's best films of 2010 2010-12-31T14:26:37Z I don't want to just recite the whole "Greatest Generation" trope about World War II but I live in a very rural area, and it's mostly Republicans. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Or are voices like Smelcer’s, that play on tropes of Native people, or discuss our plight in familiar ways, more palatable to publishers and prize juries? Writer’s claims to native heritage are questioned after PEN Center USA names his book a finalist 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The lone wolf is a classic trope, and can be easily found in existing survival reality shows. From Chris Rock live to a Waco siege docuseries, here's what's new on Netflix in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Here, “Evangelion” uses its genre’s tropes to illuminate one of the most daunting parts of the human experience: growing up. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Among its many innovations, “Larry Sanders” helped popularize a trope that has become ubiquitous: celebrities playing unflattering versions of themselves. Lots of Love for Garry Shandling 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Unless, of course, the trope is being subverted. When did you last see a man begging for his life in a horror movie? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z A series titled “Feminine Weapons” — comprised of knit rolling pins, high heels and razors in pink and pistachio hues — addresses gender tropes. In Transit Blog: Paris Exhibit Showcases Unusual Medium: Wool 2011-11-02T10:00:55Z “Dietland,” on the other hand, doesn’t merely embrace the wicked witch of fashion editorial trope personified by Kitty. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Aimless and incoherent, the film maps the “no good deed” trope to Marcus. ‘The Devil You Know’ Review: A Thriller Thinner Than Blood 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Mr Trump, as noted above, repeats many tropes. Double-plus effective 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This clunky reliance on ableist tropes as a form of humour was disappointing coming from a film lauded for its “moments of sharp, cinder black comedy”. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z These chivalric tropes, which persist in both genre stories and high literature, are what the kids these days would call problematic. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Continuing the sister theme, this unrelated film features everyone's favorite trope: twins. New movies to stream over the long weekend, from “Ambulance” to “Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special” 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z “The Cursed” is a patchwork of familiar horror tropes, but Ellis crafts a riveting spectacle of jump scares and spooky kills in his wintry, fog-swept setting. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z So, as much as it is anarchic and wild, it is framed within tropes we understand. "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Gary Wills, the New York Review of Books, 1995 : Whatever one thinks of the lynching trope, it worked. ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z America might have been worse off without such preachments: Calvinist tropes steeled Lincoln in his melancholy determination to assist the divine inexorability of bloody justice. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, he indulges in overkill, mixing together a plethora of whodunit tropes, including ciphers, a smudged photograph, ancient wrongs, rifled graves, a secret marriage, a lost will and, finally, a surprise ending. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Arguably, no other show has done more to frame the American war on terror and the Muslim-as-terrorist trope than “Homeland.” How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The dead or endangered mom is a well-worn trope in superhero films. How Our Greatest Superheroes Confront Their Mommy Issues 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It puts a variety of clichéd tropes from across the TV landscape into a blender and produces something you want to gulp, not sip. Viewers Deserve More Shows Like The Family 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Look closely and you'll see that is a medley of tropes from the films of Spielberg's early prime. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z And what I wanted to show was how they're following certain marks and have certain kind of tropes that happen across different shows. Shooting hoops and K-dramas: The American dream of not being relegated to a subplot 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s an excellent example of one of my personal favorite sitcom tropes, the “failed Thanksgiving dinner.” Why the "failed Thanksgiving dinner" is actually the best sitcom trope 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z When Hitchcock tackled the Mata Hari trope in Notorious, it was already showing its age. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z A British East and Southeast Asian theater troupe pulled their own show from the playhouse in protest, saying the musical peddled “damaging tropes, misogyny and racism.” Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Which we didn’t want to do for the obvious reasons—that’s a known trope. Mitch Hurwitz digs deep on “Lady Dynamite” — and gives “Arrested Development” details: “We’re ready to go at a moment’s notice” 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In its first half, when it's content to plunder favorite Western tropes, the movie provides some vagrant pleasures. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z Rather a boring trope, and the actress is out of her league in this cast. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The familiar tropes were trotted out, one after another, words that Bourgeois had rehearsed dozens of times. Louise Bourgeois's greatest work of art 2010-06-06T21:29:00Z “This idea of a single, malevolent AI being that can harm us, the Terminator trope … I think it’s created a tremendous blind spot,” he said to the Guardian. The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Even so, the film doesn't hesitate to depict all the instances where Ali used racist tropes to denigrate and demoralize his opponents in promoting himself. Ken Burns on his latest, "Muhammad Ali": "What's so interesting is what an avatar of love he was" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The Nolan brothers' script, its use of familiar science fiction tropes aside, manages to investigate some compelling emotional material. 'Interstellar' explores outer and inner spaces 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Serling’s Twilight Zone flourished because it disguised its regular ventures into taboo territory behind a comforting veil of science fiction, horror and fantasy tropes, and because its writing was absolutely top notch. Do we really need a Twilight Zone revival in the era of Black Mirror? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Perhaps Wylde is just a talented enough performer that he is able to use the tropes of conservatism to inspire revulsion rather than admiration, even in a very conservative county. A Trump-like wrestling villain by night, a Berniecrat politician by day: Meet “Volatile” Curtis Wylde 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z But it’s hard to distill a nation into a series of tropes, no matter how easy Third World-bound travel writers make it seem. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Pitting women against each other is a common lazy trope in TV, even ones made for female audiences. "House of the Dragon" reminds us that hell hath no fury like an ex-best friend scorned 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z With a little more shading and originality, “13 Minutes” might have pushed beyond its familiar Nazi tropes to shape something more immediate and infinitely more potent: an ominous portrait of radicalization. Review: From Wooing Women to Plotting Hitler’s Murder in ‘13 Minutes’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s also a long standing trope in fairy tales and fantasy and horror stories. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z And while their titles may seem formulaic at this point, their plots and prose often wreak havoc on the tired trope of girls in peril. This Summer, Girls in Titles and Girls in Peril 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z David Lynch's "Twin Peaks," which first aired on ABC in 1990, wields this version of the trope. Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z They all made diehard Arconiacs out of true-crime fans by satirizing the genre as it affectionately indulges in all of its tropes. "Only Murders in the Building" boss on the killer, who's back next season and a case for rewatching 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z This push and pull of the South is one of the great tropes in Southern literature from Faulkner to Welty, Wolfe to Gaines. Reading Harper Lee in the wake of Charleston: Shame, defeat and the real tragedy of “Go Set a Watchman” 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z What these tropes share is a medley of explanations, depending on whom you listen to, some of them leaning toward nurture and some toward nature and some again toward a perfect storm of both. Will We Ever Understand Addiction? 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z But even when female characters are developed outside of these reductive tropes, often the writing eventually flattens and diminishes them again. Hell Hath No Fury 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The whole “love the sinner; hate the sin” trope is based on the premise that queerness is about what you do, and that it flies in the face of who you actually are. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Audience members know the material so well because half the humor comes from merely reproducing every ludicrous plot twist and trope from the television show. Theater Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It became the eternal trope for the revenge of the dispossessed: a simple, dual image. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z For two decades, westerns were slick Hollywood confections like Young Guns, Tombstone, Maverick and Wyatt Earp or comedies like Three Amigos and City Slickers that satirized overly familiar tropes. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The oldest trope in the world is that of being in love with someone who does one harm. The Phony Sexual Transgressions of Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But the letter on Feb. 19 was from Danielle Allen, a prominent African American classicist and political theorist at Harvard, who also quarreled with the slavery-loving-colonists-spurred-to-war trope. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Kossoff thought she might relish the trope about always being the bridesmaid, never the bride. The Psychic Said She’d Never Get Married. (They Eloped.) 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Having assimilated the postmodern tendency toward pastiche and the pop art trope of repurposing the relics of mass culture, the zeitgeist was especially prone to backward glances, sometimes quizzical but mostly fond and even longing. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z It gives me no joy to admit such a thing about such a cherished franchise, but the bigoted tropes in some of these films are so rampant that they become cringe-inducing. How to make “Indiana Jones 5″ the best of the series: Kill off the racist, sexist tropes the series is steeped in 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Since space is the final frontier, it’s apt that “Star Trek Beyond” borrows tropes from dramas of that primal frontier, Westerns. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps Unbelievable works, too, as a corrective on old detective story tropes. Unbelievable: the quiet power of Netflix's fact-based rape drama 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Well, from a creative standpoint, I think it does a lot well in terms of a re-imagining these dating show tropes. Ava DuVernay talks to Salon about her revolutionary — but not political — series "Cherish the Day" 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z In a critique of Season 2, The Los Angeles Times wrote that “the optics of representation can only do so much when narratives are one-dimensional, fractured or guided by outdated tropes.” Watching ‘Queer as Folk’ but Craving ‘Heartstopper’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “What you see in the concentration of yoga, meditation, and working out is classic tropes and habits of the urban upper middle class.” In the Kale Smoothie Era of Democratic politics, 2020 candidates race to embody self-care 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z There’s no easy way to summarize one’s childhood, no matter where it took place, but the cultural tropes are particularly tough to dodge where Manhattan is concerned. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z It is a trope that was widely reported by the media and the police at that time and ever since. Detroit is not a movie 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z How did you come up with the story, and play with the rom-com tropes? If you have to ask: “How To Tell You’re a Douchebag” filmmaker on making his Twitter-era rom-com 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z All together, the vision of femininity soft girls evoke can be seen as dispiritingly retrograde – a kittenish broadcast of reductive tropes from a generation older feminists probably hoped would grow up more enlightened. TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Part of the subversive appeal of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the Woods" is that it gleefully skewers well-known fairy-tale tropes. 'Into the Woods' starts strong but magic fades, reviews say 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z "A girl arose" – the trope is that of an ancient storyteller. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z But we’re also seeing a kind of crazy time where formalism and modernist tropes are so heavy. | Sterling Ruby on Making It in L.A., His New Show in New York and the Power of the Art Market 2014-05-12T21:20:58Z Ex Machina and The Danish Girl initially appeared to be well-trodden tropes: the damsel, the sex slave and the supportive wife, respectively. How the New Lara Croft Film Can Sidestep Her Sexist Baggage 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The Dunbar family history knocks each of these tropes down like so many skittle pins in the bowling alley. Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z But Breaking Bad didn’t stoop to such a trope. Breaking Bad Watch: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Drug Kingpin 2013-08-26T13:04:25Z Cooper exemplifies pretty much everything wrong with the trope of the "nice guy" — starting with the reality that most "nice guys" aren't actually all that nice at all. “Sex/Life” and the exhausting, male entitlement of the “nice guy” trope 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The only trope missing is Killing While Showing Stocking Tops, as featured in, for example, Atomic Blonde, Anna and Terminal. Assassins in stockings and stilettos: is it time movies killed off hitwoman cliches? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s neither techie entitlement nor sexist tropes that inspired this idea in the first place, says Kay. Is this dating start-up sexist? 2014-03-05T00:00:00Z You can still see many of my characters, and some of the basic tropes and plot points. George R.R. Martin on How ‘Nightflyers’ Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Possible 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The episode, at times, plays into tired tropes of high school — the do-gooder teacher, or the bad kid Louie encounters along the way. Last night’s “Louie” reveals the engine behind Louis CK’s hate-parenting 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z But while certain tropes may recall older, similarly themed works, our preconceptions gradually unravel as his script contorts into something thrillingly new, wonderfully female and fascinatingly dangerous. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z He also said he understood how someone with “some kind of issue” — Ye has bipolar disorder — could “adopt the delusion” that Jewish people “run show business,” another antisemitic trope. Chappelle returns to SNL with no apologies — and many jokes about Kanye 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z His performance as a sad sack who takes a violent turn also plays into one of Oscar voters’ favorite tropes: It’s physically transformative. With ‘Joker’ a Box-Office Sensation, Can Joaquin Phoenix Win the Oscar? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Food has become a trope by which the queer community has found commonality, sought visibility, championed diversity and encouraged activism. Building a Table for All: The Ascent of Queer Food Culture 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z "I can only assume the lack of respect given they have been asked so often to reconsider, and have been presented with research about why these repeated tropes are harmful." James Bond hasn't changed much, and neither have his problematic villains after 25 films 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Like those other tales, “Once Upon a Tim” subverts the genre’s tropes in the service of satire. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Desson Thomson, whose Washington Post review was one of the few lukewarm ones, says the movie fit the trope of African Americans “seen as always helpmates.” The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z More hanging out of speeding cars, already by then a Jolie trope. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Someone was talking to me about a film-school character trope, these women in their 20s, quirky, happy-go-lucky, don’t need anything, kind of girl — that romantic comedy fantasy. ArtsBeat: Tribeca: Maggie Gyllenhaal on Sex Scenes From a Woman's Point of View 2012-04-26T14:00:16Z King's work at this point utilised more traditional horror tropes – the haunted or possessed whatevers that drove the stories along. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 19: Thinner 2013-04-16T17:27:36Z Other sitcoms have marriages and children and at least some small semblance of growth, but Seinfeld and Sunny instead turned those tropes on their heads, creating long build-ups to nothing. The 'Next' Seinfeld Has Already Been on TV for a Decade 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z As the geeky girl has become a more visible trope online at at the convention, industry execs have realized they can reap huge profits from an untapped market of female fans. Fangirls Rule Comic-Con 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z But that trope is destroyed by the end of the first season when it becomes clear something else is going on. Skam: the hit Norwegian teen show headed for a US remake 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s unclear whether Mr. Franzen means Pip to initially be so obnoxious — perhaps as a way of subverting tropes of the bildungsroman, or as an act of self-satire. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, historical tropes are used in fast and loose fashion, to wonderfully subversive effect. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-03-21T09:00:01Z Exuberant recycling of familiar tropes was a huge part of the success of the first “Star Wars” movie, which was part western, part World War II epic and part buddy movie. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z In sports, Americans have a set of analogies, images, tropes, and conceits, through which we understand ourselves, even when those metaphors, like Obama’s, woefully distort the reality we’re trying to describe. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z Lazarus begins The New Colossus with bold denial: "Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame…" This trope allows her a dramatic build-up to proclaiming Liberty's gender. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z Ortberg partakes of neither the damaging trope of tragic transness nor the sentimental sanctimony that we are “permitted,” offering instead the comic and the transcendent. The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Hall and McCreary both talk about staying far away from the current working mom trope on TV, where many women are amazing at their jobs and disastrous at everything else. Téa Leoni knows what you’re thinking when you see her on ‘Madam Secretary’ I know, of course, that such condensed statements are tropes, and rallying cries. Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z For me, the world of talking animals is a kind of Route 1 Disney trope that isn’t my favourite part of the Pixar universe. Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked! 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But, while I cannot speak to the intention of the show writers, piling antisemitic trope upon trope — narcissism, manipulativeness, shadowy influence and a greedy view of the world — can only cause harm. "Andor" reflects our ugly ambivalence, trafficking in antisemitic tropes while calling out fascism 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Later using his acceptance speech to suggest that the slap was an act of spousal devotion only furthered a nasty trope of equating anger and affection. Perspective | The misguided chivalry of Will Smith 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Drake is an invincible god of the Internet, a puckish tinkerer of its tropes. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z A stirring third act effectively eschews Hollywood tropes. 'Jackie & Ryan' a strong duet of searching musical souls 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In a recent e-mail interview, Ms. Adichie discussed the state of American fiction, the tropes she wanted to avoid in writing about race and more. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z The names of the works, including “Cherry Blossoms at Yoshiwara” and “Moon at Shinagawa,” seem to reference a poetic or philosophical trope — Snow, Moon, Flowers — that suggests they could have been intended as an ensemble. Review | Three large masterpieces, reunited for the first time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z It is a movie put together from bits and pieces of cinematic tropes, conventions, and clichés, including ones borrowed from a range of genres, from ingenious physical comedy to romantic lyricism to Gothic horror. Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Hitting the traditional bullet points — the mysterious drifter; the barroom confrontation; the hastily assembled posse — his stripped-down story feels like a lazily compiled greatest hits of genre tropes. Review: Don’t Mess With the Dog in ‘In a Valley of Violence’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Before it was culturally mediated in early 1967 – prior to its full commercial exploitation – psychedelia was not the blissed-out pablum of punk rhetoric and lazy media tropes. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z Most episodes drive to a point about race — like “adultification,” the trope of perceiving black children as older than their age — illustrated by historical images, as on “black-ish.” ‘#blackAF’ Review: A Second Portrait of the Artist, With More Scars 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “Speed Trap Town” brings heartbreaking specificity to the shopworn trope of the highway’s salvation. Review: Jason Isbell’s ‘Something More Than Free’ 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z It was our version of the most wholesome trope there is. My parents were addicted to heroin, and I had a happy childhood. Both of these things are true 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The short answer is: an odd one, although the oddness isn't immediately obvious from its premise, that familiar SF trope of Martian colonisation. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z Yet at the same time, opera — which is considered one of the highest forms of art — tends to uphold its formulas, sticking to tropes a century or two old. Perspective | New opera wants the same appeal as television. If only it could be as smart. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Despite Rowling’s heavy reliance on classic tropes involving good and evil, some conservative Christians object to the presence of magic and discussions of witchcraft in her novels. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Using tropes from Surrealism, Pop Art and advertising, her cartoonish pieces are sharp, humorous sendups of feminine clichés: the lipstick tube, the handbag, the manicure. The Artist Critiquing Feminine Clichés with Ceramic Heels and Cigarette Butts 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Chua, however, is less interested in historical facts than in genre tropes. Review: ‘Incident at Hidden Temple,’ a Noir Too Far 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The family members are also making a film about their lives, which means they are hyper-aware of certain cinematic tropes. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Many of the podcast’s tropes — the mystery framing, the crowdsourcing of clues from the audience and a format that focuses on the narrator as much as his subject — are borrowed directly from “Serial.” ‘Missing Richard Simmons,’ the Morally Suspect Podcast 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z That's not a message kids need to hear, a cliched trope where the queer character is more likely to die than the straight ones, especially if they have finally found love or happiness. Will no one think of the tweens? Kids need more queer stories than just "Heartstopper" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z While Phil Spector is detained in prison, his well-documented megalomania must be stoked by the knowledge that the tropes of his most famous musical productions are still enjoying a healthy lease of life. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z The “bandaged face” trope is a classic way of withholding a character from the action and generating tension around his secret. 40 years of Stars Wars – why the blockbuster saga is a galactic soap opera 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z As the Halloween reboot showed, slasher tropes work just as well with older actresses in the main role – if not better. Feminists with a bullet: how the ageing heroine became screen gold 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The way Brandy Monk-Payton, an associate professor at Fordham University who specializes in race and representation in film and television describes the Disposable Black Girlfriend trope is similar to the former Black Best Friend trope. Remember her? Why your favorite Black female characters are being "summarily dismissed" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Barack Obama made wife jokes all the time, often employing the naggy wife trope, which is popular in the genre. Analysis | Take my wife joke, please! A campaign trail cliche finally bombs 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Related: Mad Max: Fury Road review – beware of battle fatigue Mad Max alters the WIP tropes too. Mad Max: Fury Road is less radical than its B-movie influences 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Somebody made some videos criticizing gaming tropes as sexist. Misogynist Online Abuse Is Everyone's Problem--Men Included 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The dead girl trope goes back to Shakespeare's Ophelia, who drowns herself after being driven to madness by Hamlet's erratic, abusive speech. Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z A popular reoccurring trope in Russert tweets and interviews is his deep respect for the politicians he is lucky enough to cover. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z “If you’re going to have all these trappings of Orientalism on top of a white savior trope, why not upend both of those things by casting an Asian-American to play the role?” ‘Iron Fist’ Actor, at Center of Whitewashing Debate, Asks Fans to Wait and See 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z It was only temporary, of course, which is something of a Whedon trope nowadays. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Deep tropes emerge – all that wax and velvet, the contrasting of scarlet and white, all the climbing, diving and struggling that goes on in these visions of heaven and hell. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z The popularity of #ModelProblems follows a familiar trope in popular culture that serves as a wink of self-awareness about the everyday complaints of otherwise privileged people. Noted: Models Take to Twitter to Complain 2012-10-03T22:17:23Z Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands, and University of Colorado Museum in Bolder took a look at an age old trope: the unintelligent Neanderthal. Neanderthals may not have been so unintelligent after all 2014-05-01T21:00:00Z Another movie with a satisfying plot twist is James Mark’s “Control,” which effectively combines two major contemporary film tropes: amnesia and the small, locked environment. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The movie combines horror-movie tropes with "The Red Shoes," "All About Eve" and every movie about show business that insists you don't have to be crazy to become a star but it doesn't hurt either. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z This twist, that it was all a dream, is of course a tired trope, but what follows isn’t. Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The rescue-the-club concert is a familiar trope, and it’s no clearer in this incarnation than it ever is how one concert is going to make up for years of mismanagement and declining revenue. Christmas Movies Fit for the Small Screen 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But some experts view the substance and tenor of her video as reflecting common anti-transgender tropes. A Writer’s Post and its Consequences Divide Latin American Literary Circles 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z A most likeable white guy, but still – it's bound to remind some viewers of a retro TV trope that hasn't worn well. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It all ends with the infernally catchy "Baby", a song that takes the most clichéd romantic pop trope to the limits of sense. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z The cast is large and the costume and set designers have been kept busy with period details, but “Marlowe” neither dutifully copies nor cleverly updates detective-movie tropes. ‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z It contemplates the double lives of women through the ideas of outer success and inner anguish, as well as the trope of the naïve girl versus the seductive avenger. ‘Rose Plays Julie’ Review: An Eerie Thriller With Mirrored Traumas 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z This was a standard trope for praising a portrait. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It took months of therapy, and reading Grayson Perry’s 2016 book dissecting male tropes, “The Descent of Man,” before Mr. Talbot said he could “connect with other people and finally feel less lonely.” The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Instead they come across as walking and talking tropes, the kind that you would see in any story about boys becoming men in a generic prep school environment. "Tolkien" has a good idea at its center, but the execution is mixed 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z But this is Harley’s show, and it runs on a strange brew of righteousness and aggression, at once embracing and neutralizing the tropes of female anger and semi-feminist solidarity that are quickly becoming movie clichés. ‘Birds of Prey’ Review: Nihilism for Fun and Profit 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Using the poor as fodder in entertainment is a reliable trope. Reality TV’s sick depths: How the altruism porn of “The Briefcase” highlights America’s twisted relationship with its poor 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z A parody account on Reddit from late 2017 based on the rants of a spurned husband is also often cited as an early driver, and highlights the sexism of the “Karen” trope. A Brief History of ‘Karen’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Thirsty and candid, Lolo's a far cry from the Lotus Blossom trope or the deceitful Dragon lady. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z And I think it is a trope that needs to really change. Q&A with Katey Sagal: Singing with Bob Dylan, playing Peg and Rebel on TV, and how she’s managed to play leads into her 60s 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Because of its massive reach — 40 million weekly viewers in its prime — "Murder, She Wrote" laid down many of the tropes of what would become the cozy mystery genre. The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z It appears to follow many of the standard network television tropes we’re seeing more and more of these days: Fox picks up Rainn Wilson’s new series, ‘Backstrom’ 2014-01-17T17:58:01Z Waves is unusual in its depiction of black lives, rejecting the typical urban-and-struggling narrative and focusing instead on the middle classes, with many of the tropes of a white American psychodrama. How Waves unpicks the pressures of ‘black excellence’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z I just love that he sticks to these tropes that, let’s face it, have never been what made him famous. REVIEW: The Fun in "Weird Al" Yankovic's New Album, Mandatory Fun 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “The bad robot is a trope, a nightmare we tell ourselves because it’s about our fears and anxiety about being replaced,” Finn says. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z From the look of it, The Fanatic is every Bad Fan movie trope rolled into one. The Fanatic: John Travolta and Fred Durst made a horror movie together 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Most expand outward to examine narrative tropes and stylistic tics that recur across several stories. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z But here, Lasdun marries autofiction to the more obviously stylized genre of the psychological thriller, deploying cliffhangers and the trope of the unreliable narrator. In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z A trope that crops up again and again in studies of Canadian literature and fiction is that of the “beautiful losers.” “Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Last year being a young funnyman in a T-shirt, following the currently proven Russell Howard trope, appeared the best way to minimise massive financial risk. Stewart Lee: the slow death of the Edinburgh Fringe 2012-07-30T19:00:00Z The end of the Cold War later erased the trope of defecting dancers. American to Join the Bolshoi Ballet 2011-09-20T19:30:11Z The TV Tropes website sums up the awfulness of Disney’s Remus in its entry on this trope: “Even the horrors of Jim Crow can’t dampen his determination to be a cheerful mentor for the children.” Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired trope 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It's a favorite trope to have a loner protagonist suddenly jolted to life by a dire medical diagnosis. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "50/50" 2011-09-30T15:16:04Z Witnessing this in 2016 made me even more suspicious of the political tropes that are still out there today. Dolly Parton and the Women Who Love Her 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z On a leafy boulevard encircling one of Condesa’s elegant parks, MeroToro embraces familiar design tropes from fashionable restaurants around the world: reclaimed wood, industrial beams, Edison bulbs. Bites: MeroToro in Mexico City - Restaurant Report 2012-03-02T23:24:30Z Some are obvious, like the casual and prevalent bigotry inherent to transgender deceit trope, the frequency that reactions of physical revulsion to trans bodies are played for comedy. Netflix's potent "Disclosure" explores how Hollywood has both damaged and uplifted transgender lives 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In the pilot of FX’s new show Married, premiering July 17, the vampire-fantasy trope is so established that it’s ripe for parody. The Strain Moves the Sexy-vs.-Scary Needle for Pop Culture's Vampires 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s a reason so many people are conflating bad and sometimes criminal behavior with romance: traditional ideas about seduction rely on tropes of women witholding sex and men working hard to get it. Abuse isn't romantic. So why the panic that feminists are killing eros? | Jessica Valenti 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But his use of classic horror tropes here was wholly intentional; and, by using them, he created what is likely his scariest novel in the process. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 21: It 2013-05-28T16:23:21Z Over many decades, scars have been used as a visual trope for evil and villainy. 'I hid my scars for years ... I thought I was only good for horror movies' 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It's definitely from another age – Heathrow is tiny and the security is minimal – but the fans' enthusiasm is a precursor of the airport footage that would became a 60s trope. Pop at the pictures: When Cliff Richard ruled the charts 2012-08-23T12:28:59Z And there is much to like about a work that brings the tropes of classic musicals to a story about people usually ignored by them. Review: Do You Believe in Miracles? ‘Felix Starro’ Does 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Yet Disney and other giants of children’s entertainment have evolved over the decades to reflect changing norms — from including characters of many races to ditching the trope of helpless damsels in distress. Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z So when my team and I started to imagine how to bring the prediluvian era to life, we threw away all the tropes and returned to the Bible. | The Thing About Noah and the Ark 2014-03-19T22:15:45Z Or not his, he reflected, for was he not merely a fictive trope of a supreme narcissist, the self-proclaimed saviour of the novel, a creation to which Stephen Dedalus and Mrs Dalloway could only aspire? Digested read: Umbrella by Will Self 2012-08-19T15:00:00Z By refuting the “dumb blonde” trope, Elle has become beloved for her sincerity and her insistence on unapologetically being herself. ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Quite how emotionally intelligent it is, however, to rely on antisemitic tropes in your songs is an open question. Sorry, Jay-Z – saying that Jews own all property in America is antisemitic 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z I acknowledge the unfortunate use of tropes and metaphors that are connected to misogyny. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z And journalist Christiane Amanpour evoked the grave dangers reporters around the world face on the job, and decried what she called the “untruthful trope” of the term “fake news” used as a weapon against journalists. Henson, Hadid give emotional remarks at Variety honors 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But female artists in general seem to receive far more criticism for complexity, for refusing to be boxed into an easy-to-understand trope. Lay off Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift: We’re so unfair to women growing up in the public eye 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z If the friends-to-lovers trope is ever in danger of feeling tired, Henry saves it with sassy wordplay. Review | Emily Henry’s ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ is a pitch-perfect beach read 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Matthew Beeman also got in on the trope, telling Paige how his father chatted with him all the time about F.B.I. business. ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 10: Family Anguish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The whole “be more like this mythical French woman” trope is sort of an upscale version of those “How To Stay Sexy For Your Man” books. 6 Reasons American Women Should Stop Trying to Be Parisian 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z He took so many tropes from beloved movies and stories and beautifully wove them together to create this new caper. "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z And with that change comes a different look for some of noir's most revered tropes. Queens of noir 2012-08-13T19:00:10Z There are tons of examples of lovelorn men standing outside a window to signal their devotion– it’s a romantic staple that’s so common it’s become a corny trope. New Adam Levine Video Confuses Violence and Love 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The film repeatedly draws attention to misogynistic horror tropes, then upturns them. How to watch Netflix as a feminist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “The Nightingale” is a revenge story, one that draws on familiar Victorian Gothic and Hollywood western tropes. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But there's one person who is pushing him to see himself as just more than a Hollywood trope, and that's Willis' mother, who advises him to "Be more." From "New Waves" to "On Immunity," what "Little Fires" author Celeste Ng is reading right now 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z "Gang Related," which premieres Thursday, rolls with so many stereotypes and tropes it clanks. The body count and stereotypes pile up on 'Gang Related' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But to the writer and director Caroline Vignal’s credit, this low-key romantic French comedy proves friskier and more idiosyncratic than its reliance on this trope of feminist empowerment would suggest. ‘My Donkey, My Lover & I’ Review: Three’s a Crowd 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The TV voiceover is a trope that is as old as TV itself. You talkin' to me?: how TV narration got personal 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A surprise appearance by subaquatic, recently deceased femmes fatales is another popular trope; the distaff dead, like U-boats, do not like to surface. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z Like Emma Cline, she is drawn to reanimating familiar cultural figures and tropes and tends to approach character-writing in terms of specialties — who has one, who might need a different one, who’s faking theirs. An Intrepid Chronicler of Sundry Experiences 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s a trope embodied by what Schrader calls “the man in a room”: a character who is often left alone, with nothing but his thoughts. Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Even little labels tend to imitate the tropes of the majors' costly runway shows - sometimes with unintentionally hilarious, or tragic, results. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z Prejudice is certainly bad when it's deliberate and overt, but there is something particularly pernicious about stereotypes that are reinforced reflexively, particularly through a medium as influential as storytelling tropes. Will "Joker" further the stigma of mental illness? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Other films have stuck closer to the tried-and-true tropes, plugging the recurring noir themes of corruption and deception into a more offbeat milieu. Trouble in paradise: The Beach Bum and a history of Florida noir 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Serritella’s debut is a sweeping and beguiling novel called “Ghosts of Harvard,” which carries forward some of the tropes of her mother’s fiction but also ventures into territory that’s rarely explored these days: supernatural suspense. Review | Lisa Scottoline’s daughter, Francesca Serritella, makes a name for herself as a novelist with ‘Ghosts of Harvard’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Why did you decide to reimagine this trope in your books? How Shannon Hale draws strength from Wonder Woman, the star of her new book, even amid boos 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z He said there "might be" two robots or cyborgs in the new film, a trope which would link it to its predecessors. Ridley Scott unveils Prometheus 2011-07-22T11:22:54Z She uses the melodramatic tropes of soap opera to tell a cracking good story, all the while smuggling in piercing observations, like a file baked in a cake. Ties that bind 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Editor-in-chief Riley told me he remained concerned over the film perpetuating “a false and troubling Hollywood trope” attached to female journalists. 'Crass and contemptible': is Clint Eastwood's new movie built on a lie? 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z We were mainly thinking about, how do you tell a story, how do you make a documentary that doesn't rely on tried and true documentary tropes? Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “It also includes an ugly anti-Semitic trope of Jewish ‘greed’,” she said in a statement. Eurovision contestants walk the orange carpet in Tel Aviv 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z Other characters throughout the updated “Fear Street” universe similarly defy the typical “wholesome, white final girl” trope that has helped to define the genre. In ‘Fear Street,’ a Lesbian Romance Provides Hope for a Genre 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z And just about every other comics genre and trope from the 1940s onward. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z But these men’s nail polish lines stick to cis-masculine tropes: Well-dressed dudes in suits, or expensive sneakers. Man-icures: How male celebrities are popularizing painted, polished nails 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Enervatingly synthetic, “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears” slices and dices the images and tropes of Italian giallo-style slasher films into an inert pile of style. ‘The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears,’ From a French Directing Duo 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z In a familiar trope of female friendship, Margot is everything Flora is not: effortlessly stylish, benignly narcissistic, an Italian-American of the “summers in Tuscany” variety as opposed to Flora’s “Sunday sauce, weekly Mass” Bay Ridge-Italian. Double the Trouble in a Novel of Hollywood Marriages 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The film turned the stripper with a heart of gold trope on its head by making that stripper a man. 11 Movies Starring Women That Will Rival Summer Blockbusters 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The persistence of these tropes underlies the urgent need to reevaluate the makeup of writers and production teams. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s an engaging concept for a film, and the original screenplay by Kiel Murray shuffles familiar tropes for luck into a novel setting. ‘Luck’ Review: Bad Day at the Fortune Factory 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z But the artist as iconoclast is a tired trope. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” and the False Dream That Art Will Fulfill You 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But the whole movie, a pastiche of early film tropes, is a goofy, slapstick silent-film-style romp, only with dialogue. film: Silent-Movie-Era Tributes From the Past 2012-01-06T21:36:22Z But we’ve always done our own version of sitcom tropes in the past, so we weren’t totally put out by that. Glenn Howerton on It's Always Sunny: 'Nothing is going too far unless it doesn’t make us laugh' 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The cinematic trope that classical music is somehow villainous has dismayed some in the field. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Much of what transpires hews childishly to Disney Channel tropes and outcomes; at the same time, “Everything Sucks!” reaches for decidedly mature situations and language. Review | It’s nice to see the ’90s instead of the ’80s, but ‘Everything Sucks!’ is as clunky as dial-up 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z He also pointed to Larson’s character as being her own champion for women, the kind of “strong female character” that goes beyond tropes and excels in a society that doesn’t often reward women. "Captain Marvel" star Samuel L. Jackson reflects on Brie Larson's push for press inclusion 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z As the years progressed, so did the TV trope. Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z It was both a send-up of the genre and a competent example of its classic tropes, which was only possible thanks to Reynolds being simultaneously a traditionally handsome movie star and a gifted comic actor. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z A number of journalists have called the portrayal of Scruggs “boring” and “wrong”, taking to social media to defend female journalists who are repeatedly portrayed by Hollywood in this sexist trope. Atlanta newspaper sues Clint Eastwood over film's portrayal of reporter 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z These women support each other through rough times, and the show largely steers away from cliched tropes and oversimplified drama. Best Instagrams From the Cast of Orange Is the New Black 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But the antisemitic sentiment that Ye has been espousing is gross, and also gross in its casualness — familiar, tiresome tropes that serve only to incite hatred. Ye Is Running Out of Platforms 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The original trilogy never went in for action trope close-ups like this before. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – six things learned from the Japanese trailer 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Every few seconds, the band ratchets up the tension; every blues trope they toss into the mix makes the song that much more unnerving. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Hong stuck to his ambition in an era when roles available to Asian actors were mostly tropes and stereotypes — a fact the actor acknowledges. Actor James Hong back in spotlight with Hollywood star push 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The novel kicked off a decades-spanning, 13-book series, inspired a hit film and multiple comic book adaptations, and established the template for a popular vampire trope. 11 facts about Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The idea that someone feels abandoned or jilted, and destroys herself in the end, is after all one of the standard tropes of literature. Errol Morris: two sides to every scandal 2011-03-10T22:34:01Z Nowadays, amid controversies around civil forfeiture and “driving while black,” many of us recognize the paradoxes at the heart of the deeply American, and deeply alluring, trope of the open highway. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z One of the crucial tropes of Cindy’s life, as she expresses it in “Cutting My Mother,” is the male domination of family life. “Cutting My Mom,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Ingenious Web Series, Made in Collaboration With His Mother 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Moving back home is an all-too-common trope in several new comedies. Look out: A fall harvest of new broadcast TV shows 2013-08-27T18:36:32Z But Santos missteps when he falls into religious and gendered tropes. Romeo Santos Reveals Another Volume of Boundary-Crossing Bachata 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z And inevitably, her efforts will conflict with the masculine tropes and rituals embedded in the Roman Catholic faith. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The parody of reality show tropes may have been harder to catch when the only such series that had aired were “The Osbournes” and “The Anna Nicole Show.” Lisa Kudrow returns to her role on ‘The Comeback’ almost a decade later Paul falls into certain tropes of the writer character. In "Misery," James Caan made a writer a rock star 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The grim tropes of the classic Western infused two other movies that received their world premieres this Cannes weekend. The Wild West in the South of France 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Rather than following expected tropes about missing a beloved, all of these letters illustrated the limits of language, or rather of people’s ability to express themselves coherently in it. Review | German baritone Benjamin Appl announces his U.S. arrival with a generous Phillips program 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The more Kamenetz leans on tired Trump tropes, the clearer her omission becomes of the faults of the progressive left and its rhetoric. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The swashbuckling tropes in Joseph’s tale seem overly familiar, even trivial, next to the urgency of Alma’s quest amid the harsh realities of the African diaspora. Swashbuckling Nautical Adventure Meets the 18th-Century Slave Trade 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z When Caine unaccountably threatens Freeman with a voodoo devil doll, both actors react as if they were amused but not humiliated by the lame trope. Now You See Me: The Customer Is Always Fooled 2013-05-30T22:11:24Z The furniture-smashing, milk-carton-rolling sex scene remains a classic, and you can see how Thompson’s combo of directness and frailty was key in shaping the Curtis template, which combines stock tropes with an understated naturalism. Emma Thompson's best films – ranked! 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The good that "Silenced" has done certainly outweighs its flaws, but there are certainly some of those: character and plot tropes that pad out the story but have little to do with it. 'Silenced': Haunting Korean tale of school abuse 2011-11-03T19:59:04Z This seems to be an unavoidable trope of antihero drama, the defining genre of TV’s “golden age”. Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The idea that homeless people are somehow more harmful to the environment than housed people is a widely used trope, activists say, and it’s often a cover-up for nimbyism. Trump attacks California's homeless crisis with false environmental trope 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “It was intentional at the outset to try to balance both archetypal, classic story tropes–Singing in the Rain, A Star Is Born–with modern-day existence in L.A.,” Haters Shall Be Lovers In La La Land 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z What the audience sees is no hotel, but a simulacrum formed from expectations, media tropes and a few red herrings for good measure. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z “Wrapped inside that insult, which was widely established as a racist trope, was a factually inaccurate claim: Only one of the lawmakers was born outside the country.” Perspective | Tiptoeing around Trump’s racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Yet those tropes are drawn from the real world, and part of the appeal of these shows is validation: Even leading their extraordinary lives, these women couldn’t escape the hazards of being female. Why ‘The Cher Show’ Gets Me, Babe 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Stewart returned to the trope that he opened with. The Stewart-O’Reilly Debate: An Inside View of a Seriously Hilarious Rumble 2012-10-07T17:23:24Z “The omega male is not experiencing the tired trope of the midlife crisis,” she wrote. In praise of the “beta male” 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “There are some tropes that we’ve seen throughout cinematic history with regards to black actors … Once you get into that pigeonhole, it’s hard to get out of it.” Black American actors slighted as Brits nab roles: 'we can't tell our own stories?' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Of course, I’ve come up against plenty of the predictable tropes I anticipated as an HBO-watching teenager, but I’ve more often found that men defy the cliche of superficial, unemotional wanting. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Another question specifically asked about how the movie dealt with its female characters and the horror genre -- an early question referred to “the crushing of the tropes” -- in a positive way. SXSW: 'The Final Girls' starts a horror-comedy party 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Dunham, who is not a conventional bombshell and struggles with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and disassociation, updates the Mouseburger trope while winking at another era of womanhood. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z And, of course, it is all over film and TV, with the flamboyant Latin American narco serving as regular cinematic trope. Days of the dead: Time to say 'enough' to extreme narco-culture? 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z All the familiar tropes of hard-boiled fiction are here. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z Then the designers played with essentially three elements — cabaret sequins; maroon and cream striped governess shirting; and camo — mixing and matching them in the tropes of historical grandeur and red-light districts. Seeing the Oscar Challenge to Fashion Week and Raising It One 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z For decades the school scrap was a prevailing coming-of-age trope in movies and TV. How the Bloody ‘Bottoms’ Reinvents the Coming-of-Age Fight 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z “Dark Towers” suffers some unfortunate tropes of business journalism: Val is “fueled” by Ritalin, traders are “fueled” by testosterone and “crazed” by adrenaline; the bank is “fueled” by greed. ‘What the Hell Are We Doing Lending Money to a Guy Like This?’ 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The “Upstairs Downstairs” riffs are matched by the familiar tropes of reality shows, including all those moments where the characters privately talk trash directly to the camera. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z There are a lot of Jews in Hollywood, Chappelle observed mischievously, before undercutting the comment with a joke that called the trope that they control show business “a delusion.” When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It's high-falutin' and fancy, and there are all sorts of traditional fantasy tropes. Rereading Stephen King week 13: The Gunslinger 2012-12-13T10:17:38Z DM There's quite a limited range of boss tropes: the paper-pusher, so you get the renegade cop coming up against the suit. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier build the perfect TV detective 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z Life imitates art, and our reaction to tropes familiar in contemporary art influences how we perceive Lin’s work. Review | Maya Lin’s forest in a Manhattan park makes a point about climate change. Is anyone listening? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z I might actually end up being close to a trope in the story. Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Zimmer and Howard wrote for the needs of the film, drawing viewers in to a dark, sometimes terrifying world without the usual Hollywood score tropes dogging them the whole time. A dream job: Hans Zimmer and the music of 'Inception' 2010-07-20T05:02:00Z To engage McDonagh in a graduate-student deconstruction of his oeuvre — the themes, the tropes, what the artist is trying to say — is to invite the repeated invocation of one of his favorite obscenities. You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Here, too, Iñarritu borrows tropes and tricks from previous films and boils them down to their most common, least challenging elements. “Birdman” Never Achieves Flight 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z As the film unfolds, it mines more from the Mata Hari trope than mere titillation. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z On a humorous note, a Stephen Sondheim mash-up “No One Is Alive While I’m Around” located the composer’s recurrent musical tropes. Review: In ‘Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs’ at Café Carlyle, No Emotion Is Left Hidden 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Stephen Colbert led his monologue on “The Late Show” with the 100 day trope, focusing his attention Trump’s performance thus far. “Turning an F to an A”: Here’s how late-night TV celebrated Trump’s first 100 days 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The scene is a variation on a familiar trope: the reluctant woman cajoled by a man’s aggressive lust. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z Had the movie prioritized such clearheadedness over crude true crime tropes, it might have emerged as a sharp window into the dangers of speculation — both in the purchase of assets and on conspiratorial Reddit boards. ‘Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King’ Review: Coins and Misdemeanors 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The scene where Elbe gets beaten up by people who ask: “Are you a girl or a boy” felt heavy-handed, plastering a familiar transphobic trope over a situation that was far more nuanced. A fantastic leap – trans cinema's breakthrough moment 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z For Park, who, in addition to starring in “Joy Ride” also appears in “Beef,” the excitement about the new stories isn’t so much about retiring tired tropes about Asian Americans. For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z It benefits women like Vergara to play along with jokes like this, but there’s no excuse for the Academy to engage in such a blatantly sexist trope. Sofia Vergara Was Literally Put on a Pedestal in a Completely Sexist Bit at the Emmys 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z We did like the fact that we were poking fun at this whole Hollywood trope. Matt Damon and George Takei, check out "White Savior," a samurai satire challenging beloved movies 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z So go three popular sexist tropes, with mothers — stereotypically sexless figures — usually falling into martyrdom or sainthood. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In “Those Kids From Fawn Creek,” Erin Entrada Kelly makes this trope feel brand-new by the sheer power of her narrative voice. Erin Entrada Kelly on the Stranger Within 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In the same way, the comic book industry is still addressing decades-worth of whitewashing, clumsy attempts at diversity and the peddling of white savior tropes. Nerds of the world, unite: The villains have weaponized “canon” — and it’s up to us to stop it 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z This does not mean that physicality is not a factor in "Saint Maud," but it doesn't fall into the well-established "death is sex" trope. How "Saint Maud" turns a feminist lens on body horror and gives its "final girl" autonomy 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z What was striking was how many of the participants have worked through the problem of Lovecraft himself to repurpose the basic tropes in his fiction. A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z These are the tropes and tribes of modern dating. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z At some point there are there are these thriller tropes that do involve some guns, so we didn’t totally abandon that. Homeland hits New York City: 'Things are very disrupted here at home' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It gives power to Asian characters instead of Westerners, and the fluidity in gender roles counters sexist tropes in Puccini’s opera. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar The brilliance of the amnesiac spy trope is that it makes that identification the quietly meta center of the story. American Ultra: should the the amnesiac spy trope be forgotten? 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Time travel is, of course, a familiar device in speculative fiction, particularly the trope of the single event that changes the course of history. What if You Could Go Back in Time to Stop Terrorists Before They Strike? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Gangs, in elaborate masks that echo any number of horror movie tropes, run a recycling program, kidnapping and selling people to be offed for sport. 'The Purge: Anarchy' ups the ante and the gore 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Then in October, a place opened in the West Village that seemed to hit all the right tropes. Red-Sauce Italian Cooking Finds a Future at Don Angie 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “There are other tropes, like male nudes but not the usual stuff. One day he was posting the erotic drawings of Duncan Grant.” Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Many of his lyrics feature standard hip-hop tropes, like allusions to sports and pop culture. How BMG Secretly Signed a Rapper Dropped for Antisemitic Lyrics 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z A: I was really interested in those stock standard characters or tropes that we know and love in rom-coms and TV and film. Let’s talk about ‘Sex Education’ — and all the bad info we got as teens 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z They are the epitome of in-one-ear-and-out-the-other, which was my mother’s trope for a failure to connect. First: The Twitter Trap 2011-05-18T20:53:46Z Life follows many tropes of the genre, but with enough neat twists and lessons on human nature to keep it interesting. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I would love to not talk about my personal life’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z I also enjoyed watching the young cast, even when they had to enact horror-film tropes like the guy who leaves his girl alone near the climax. A Nightmare on Elm Street Review: Freddy's Not Dead Yet 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z As in “Modern Family,” the show deploys the hot wife trope self-consciously. Kevins Can Score Improbably Attractive TV Wives 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Galadriel learns the danger of trusting a certain trope of man, the mediocre ones who fall up and will drag you down with them. "The Rings of Power" shows us a new side of Middle-earth: girlfriends 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z In it, Schumer, whose movies always turn on the trope of the unruly woman, is a cog at a makeup company who requires a head injury in order to think herself attractive and professionally capable. “Growing,” Reviewed: What Amy Schumer Won’t Expose 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s a premise that not only counters the trope of a Jewish conspiracy but also taps into the paranoia of being gaslit by an entire culture. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The former finds hilarity in hackneyed entertainment genres and worn-out tropes. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z David Wain’s “They Came Together” identifies the tropes of the romantic comedy with uncommon acuity. Review: ‘They Came Together’ a parody party 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z One of the most popular tropes in the performing arts is the star-is-born moment. An opera star is born — with years of hard work 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z However you define it, for Amos, there was resistance and freedom in heterogeneity — an ability to be her multiple selves at once and an opportunity to rethink the tropes and traps of history. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Space forces have been a science-fiction trope since at least 1948, when Robert A. Heinlein published the young-adult novel “Space Cadet,” about a teenager who joins a group called the Interplanetary Patrol. We crashed a science-fiction writers convention to ask about Trump’s ‘Space Force’ 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But as another well-worn trope puts it, when one door closes, another opens. Music Review: Michael Schade and Luca Pisaroni at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-26T22:25:13Z It spoofed and pastiched the scary genre itself, drawing attention to its own tropes and tricks, knowingly tipping the wink to fans. Wes Craven: the mainstream horror maestro inspired by Ingmar Bergman 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s an emerging TV trope — a woman who excels at her job but for some inexplicable reason makes terrible choices when the man of her affection enters the picture. TV’s Strongest Female Characters Share One Stupid Flaw 2013-10-10T09:45:31Z The clear-eyed kid, wise beyond their years, is an evergreen trope of teen TV. 'Take care of your actors': the intimacy director keeping Netflix’s sex scenes safe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And yet, the most talked about opera in years stars a woman who was perceived as the older trope—the archetypal dumb blonde sex object. Buxom and Doomed: The Odd Marriage of Opera and Anna Nicole 2013-09-27T14:09:14Z Indeed, it is a modern trope: the loving family man who perpetrates acts of cruelty because he is just following orders. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The extraordinary black person is a character much of America is comfortable confronting — from the superhero to the heroic slave, black girl magic to the trope of the Magical Negro. Everyday Excellence 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z The classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published 100 years ago this summer, takes the traditional children's literature trope of the orphan protagonist and twists it. The Secret Garden's hidden depths 2011-08-05T11:42:29Z “We wanted to figure out how to write a hip-hop song as a guitar band, but we were falling into these punk rock, post-punk tropes,” Bowen said. Idles Are Throwing a Post-Punk Revolution, and Everyone’s Invited 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z “All using tropes and shapes established a hundred years ago” by their Futurist and modernist forebears. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Good parodies rely on taking familiar tropes and then finding a comic spin on them. “The Happytime Murders”: A sad excuse for grown-up comedy 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z As the superhero genre continues to gain in popularity, it was perhaps inevitable that we would see comic book tropes beginning to seep into other genres. A Batman for the real world: is Casey Affleck's Villain the superhero we deserve? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z They literally “drank the Kool-Aid,” spawning a trope that has lingered in American culture long after its origins have been forgotten. The myths of Jonestown: “Jim Jones was who Charlie Manson wanted to be,” says author of new book on 1978 tragedy 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z “If you decided not to watch a TV show unless it was completely devoid of racial tropes, you’d have about one show to watch.” Despite declarations to the contrary, black people watch "Game of Thrones" 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The danger of having Will die is that this lands squarely in the "bury your gays" trope, an outdated and overused device where queer characters are killed, particularly if they've found love, peace or happiness. How to fix "Stranger Things" for its fifth and final season 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z To forge ahead, we require an outrageousness that sees beyond the tired tropes and easy outs that mass media provides. Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities 2014-04-08T18:34:00Z Daphne was written and directed by men, which shows how established the “self-loathing promiscuous woman” trope has become. Let’s have more sex in the movies – but please can it be the fun type? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Nancy bulldozed the trope of the saintly single mom by being downright evil and a little sex obsessed. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In the early and mid-2010s, Yankee released a spate of albums, but many of them lacked dimension and verve, relying on unimaginative commercial tropes. Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Lynch, for his part, exhibits little use for that go-to trope of so much modern television: the cliffhanger. Enough with your “Twin Peaks” theories already, you’re ruining it 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z But the danger never materializes; the trope is upended. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s as if a vestige of Old Hollywood—the classical movie trope of characters as types—was resurging, uneasily and perhaps unawares, in a movie of a notable modernity. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z This is a wondrous work of video that digs into a part of Los Angeles that is too often reduced to tropes. Datebook: A performance art fest, an online opera and African American abstraction 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “The Toxic Avenger” is hardly a great musical, awash in false rhymes and schlock, the musical theater tropes seldom rising above pastiche as in, say, “Urinetown.” The laughter is contagious at Hollywood Fringe Festival's 'Toxic Avenger' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Steampunk is really just historical SF; and Adam Roberts has written superb works, such as , featuring science fiction tropes in a historical setting. The Edinburgh literature festival that could change history 2013-04-11T15:28:06Z The historical works I enjoy tends to subvert or ignore the tropes of the genre. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z Fielder’s immortal hero is also a response to the longstanding cinematic trope of Black men dying before the final credits roll. Beyond ‘Black Panther’: Afrofuturism Is Booming in Comics 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z “The delight of this odd, humane show is how it rearranges old alien tropes to find a new way to say what ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ once did: We are not alone.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Diana, Our Mother’ and ‘Somewhere Between’ 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z “The idea of writing the same movie or play or using the same tropes over and over again would be stultifying to me.” John Logan Comes to TV With Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-09T21:52:11Z A laundry list of tropes about rural life. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Zimmern is employing a classic journalism trope: the question presented as a sweeping statement. Andrew Zimmern moves from entertainer to advocate on his new MSNBC food show 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But the fun of “Glass Onion” is that it takes these tropes to build what appears to be an elaborate murder scheme, only to reveal that the crime was much more straightforward than it seemed. At the Movies, Bagels, Onions and a Side Dish of Nothing 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Tourville referred with a laugh to the trope of “conductor wives,” who imperiously attend even rehearsals. The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z I’ve discovered that a lot of scholars now postulate Shakespeare may have intended it as a parody, a farcical exaggeration of tropes from the ancient tragic form. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z There will never be proof other than he word and the trope of old men chasing 18 year-olds in his films. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z They dislike the scary clown trope, but for entirely different reasons. Clown group upset over 'American Horror Story' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Olds frequently borrows religious tropes to write of her erotic life, letting the body take the place where religion had been. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Yes, most of the metaphors and parables packed into this story — a grab bag of sci-fi tropes highlighting humanity’s hamster-wheel existence — are this heavy-handed. From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z It's a crime series trope sure, but it's a trope because it works. Justified 'Trust' recap: Almost made the county line 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “Don’t let the terrorists win” is an easy enough trope to repeat, a harder one to live by. Paris, One Year Later 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “Devil Pray”, another track that deals with religious themes—one of the singer’s favorites tropes. Surprise! Madonna's New Album Is Available For Pre-Order Now 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z But the films’ common dependence on the tropes of superhero stories and revenge fantasies, whether explicit or in disguise, suggests the difficulty of making reality-based cinema out of the history we’re currently living through. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z So, let’s look at some of the most pervasive Instagram rich-kid tropes, and see what they reveal about the Rich Parents of Instagram’s assets – and how they could be used against them... Fools' gold: super-rich Instagram decoded 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Instead, they rely on time-worn tropes and use samples of the sort fans will recognise from back in the day. New band of the day: Joey Bada$$ (No 1,302) 2012-07-05T15:50:28Z Even the much-lauded film “Phantom Thread” relied on the trope of the designer as tortured narcissist. Perspective | Documentary series ‘American Style’ embraces fashion as an art form 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z When you take action film genre tropes and graft a political narrative onto them, people often imbibe the ideology along with the spectacle. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z This is an unnerving pattern, and a common trope in media representation of LGBT+ people more widely. Too woke? Nope – Doctor Who is more offensive than ever 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “There’s nothing unusual about it. But in the west, there is this bamboo ceiling. There’s been this endemically racist trope that east Asian actors feel incredibly angry and resentful about.” The new heart-throbs: how Hollywood embraced east Asian actors, from Henry Golding to Simu Liu 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z You lean into the tropes — the dating montage — but the film is a bit cynical about romance. "What's Love Got to Do With It?" director on dating today, from apps to setups: "Love is a mystery" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “Some of the initial numbers were thinking about tropes of Western musical theater and how to make that through a lens of a South Asian American college student,” Lew said. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z This seems an odd choice: Surely the "nose-to-the-porthole" trope, as Paul Theroux calls it, is beneath a writer of Winchester's power and scope. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z This is a common conspirazoid trope: the powers that claim to protect us are actually seeking to destroy us. Pop stars and their conspiracy theories 2011-07-21T20:48:00Z He found in it the trope that would continue to justify his people’s suffering for decades to come: that foreign powers—chiefly America—had always been to blame. Tyrant and truant 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Women are generally cast in the leading roles, with the shows drawing on a liberal feminist trope of exposing religious life as traumatizing and oppressive. Netflix’s "My Unorthodox Life" urged ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z It features smart, wiseacre conversation over lunch – and the lunch scene is a signature Ephron trope. Nora Ephron was serious about comedy 2012-06-27T12:12:07Z It's disheartening to realize that this trope is so pervasive that it's not just relegated to violent adult fare. James Bond hasn't changed much, and neither have his problematic villains after 25 films 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Her 2011 collection, “Life on Mars,” which won the Pulitzer, is inflected with dystopian themes and tropes from science fiction. Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Common tropes include: What’s most important is a sort of genial feel-good sense that everything will be OK, thanks in large part to the brilliance and beneficence of TED conference attendees. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z This whole book is me breaking my favorite stories and tropes apart and asking, “Why?” Rainbow Rowell on ‘Stars Wars,’ the Bible and why she’s winking at you 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z All possibilities are kept in play, the various tropes employed less like the escalating steps of a horror tale than like the stock, rotating elements of a situation comedy. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Thanksgiving Feast of Twists 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z “I broadly criticized the local news networks that hyper-focused on looting and all these other tropes they were building about these protests.” How Hasan Piker Took Over Twitch 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z So I wasn’t interested in the trope of one light-skinned and one dark-skinned friend. ‘Insecure’ Broke Ground by Embracing Imperfection 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In two minutes flat, Eedy hits all the major notes of the "Jewish mother trope," belittling, manipulating and aggressively meddling in her son's life. "Andor" reflects our ugly ambivalence, trafficking in antisemitic tropes while calling out fascism 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The novel is an exploration of adolescent trauma and its otherworldly manifestations rather than a retelling of a trope. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Watch and stream enough of these downbeat, post-yuppie shows and you could build a bingo game out of the usual tropes: Character who works a menial job in the media/entertainment industry? How Netflix’s ‘Flaked’ is just one more drop in L.A.’s ocean of hipster miseries 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In its individual pieces, “Stranger Things” is an Easter-egg salad of references, story lines and tropes. ‘The Get Down’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Feed Nostalgia With a Historical Remix 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z This is especially evident in Dr. Sharon's steady introduction, through which the writers display care in lending individual quirks and breathing true interiority into a character who could have easily become another TV trope. OK "Ted Lasso" fans, time to have a conversation about our dear, wonderful Sam Obisanya 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z And we get the same extremely tired tropes of the Indian maid and Native women as a symbol for a Wild West that has been lost. Empowering "Dark Winds" Navajo women: "As Native people, our continuing existence is a radical act" 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z When the show shifts into broad comedy, it can lean on tired tropes, like a woman suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and loudly cursing. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z "Love Fraud" is very much a work in which every participant evokes a keen awareness of the genre's tropes. Showtime's alluring "Love Fraud" exposes the common con artist charming America's lonely women 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z “Beauty equals good” is an age-old trope in entertainment, points out Doris Bazzini, a professor of social psychology at Appalachian State University. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z It is important to see people of color represented in a wide array of characters to avoid falling into racist tropes and stereotypes. Rooting out racism in children’s books 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z We encounter the novel not as a relic, encrusted with renown and analysis, much revered and much handled, but in all its freshness and truculent refusal of fiction’s tropes. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Likewise, there are occasional throwaway plot twists, like that worn-out trope of a surprise same-sex kiss between friends, that detract from the show’s more novel reflections. ‘How to Defend Yourself’ Review: The Murkiness of Consent, and Friendship 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Like Bong Joon Ho’s film, “Bacurau” twists genre tropes — taken from ’70s science fiction, exploitation flicks, war movies, Hollywood westerns and much more — into a rollicking screed against inequities of capital and power. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z There are particular pitfalls with Joplin, whose spectacular musical rise and concomitant drug abuse lends itself to the VH1-ish tropes of the genre that most filmmakers want to avoid. A Janis Joplin film finally shakes the kozmic blues 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z What are the ways that this trope has evolved over time? YES MEANS KNOW: Respect, ravishment, and the non-con job of being a wanton woman 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z My favorite series on the list, “The Boondocks” took an unparalleled approach to sociopolitical satire about stereotypes, tropes and prejudices Black people face in America. From ‘Proud Family’ to ‘The Boondocks’: 11 Black Animated Series 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z “The Fifth Child” explores this double bind through lurid horror tropes. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The zone of death around ancient ruins will soon become a familiar science fiction trope, as in Stephen Vincent Benet’s prescient 1937 story of Earth after the Great Burning, “By the Waters of Babylon.” Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Weiden applies all the standard crime novel tropes, but compelling characters and the reservation setting make everything fresh. Review | ‘Winter Counts’ hits the sweet spot between gritty thriller and social novel 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In his latest outing, Weir uses a common SF trope — a protagonist who must discover who he is and what’s going on, and oh, also save humanity. Review | Andy Weir’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a bestseller. It also has some problems. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z This time, the researchers used stories written for junior or high school students that use common tropes and plot devices. Enough with the spoiler alerts! Plot spoilers often increase enjoyment 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z In terms of narrative tropes, it occupies the place that freak memory loss did in the 90s, kicking off all the action and driving it forward; never mind how unlikely that scenario was. From Elle to Game of Thrones, why is culture obsessed with rape? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z He further explains that the discussion of the film's goblins were meant to illustrate "how some tropes are so embedded in society that they're basically invisible, even in a considered process like moviemaking." Jon Stewart said Harry Potter goblins are Jews, but adds, "I do not think JK Rowling is antisemitic" 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It is difficult to write about this subject without falling into predictable tropes or clichés, but Russell manages a brutal originality. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “Going forward, no comedy-loving kid really needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness.” Fey asks to pull ’30 Rock’ episodes that featured blackface 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Yet the “world’s greatest/hardest” routine is a common heart-tugging trope. Motherhood isn’t the “world’s toughest job” 2014-04-15T14:12:00Z The old "all men are animals" trope is certainly a convenient way of identifying yourself as one, but speak for yourself, pal. Scott Adams' defense of rape mentality 2011-06-20T15:30:00Z Balasubramanyam's only book released in the UK has moments of frivolity and fantasy that exploit Bollywood tropes with such imagination and wonder that you can't help but be spirited away. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z Sick of those tired tropes, a group of Israeli moviemakers created an Israeli national movie fund in 1979, hopefully named the "Israeli Fund to Encourage Quality Films." Israeli film industry is a surprising powerhouse 2012-01-27T12:14:20Z Lyrically as well, Ferry explores a timeless trope — love — although his takes provided a more complex view of pursuit and attraction. 50 years ago, David Bowie and Roxy Music made history 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z “Widow’s Point,” a collaborative novella by the father-son team of Richard and Billy Chizmar, is an epistolary rendering of a classic horror trope: a psychic investigator’s encounter with a Bad Place and its animating spirits. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “This is because of age-old antiqueer tropes that position all queer people as sexual predators and social deviants.” Perspective | The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But the trope works two ways — both in horror, and in Bickel’s photo. Analysis | That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z In mourning the lost possibilities of Mercy’s life, Tyler takes aim at a sentimental trope deeply embedded in American culture. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z World leaders in other hemispheres, of course, have traditionally had a different kind of uniform, one that can involve cultural, often indigenous, garment tropes. Trump vs. the Disappearing Tie 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z This week the show made a welcome pivot to his origin story instead, using the classic trope, Return of the Case that Haunts Me, to fill in some of his biography. 'Gotham' Recap: The Story of Harvey Bullock 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Flight of the Conchords songs often skewer pop tropes by linking a joke with an inescapable hook. New York Funny Songs Fest on Lower East Side 2012-05-31T20:41:24Z Or, in a Tarantino twist on a Sergio Leone trope, the three actors engaged in a triangular shootout, and only the Austrian survived. 2013 Oscar Nominations: Who Will Win? 2013-01-10T16:37:58Z Nearly every critic and music-industry professional I know routinely decries the Grammys as trifling, an arbiter of nothing: they are too white, too docile, too choked by genre, too long, too loyal to outmoded tropes. The 2017 Grammys Have No Answers 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z It isn’t using familiar tropes to demand your money or your attention. Review: 'Stranger Things' Is Nostalgia That Works 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z At its best, this brand of comedy takes sexist – and even racist – tropes and plays inventive and revealing games with them. Funny men behaving boorishly 2013-01-04T19:00:01Z “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is firmly grounded in Rebecca’s own perspective, rather than viewing her through the male gaze or treating her as a trope. Not anyone’s “crazy bitch”: Smashing the “Fatal Attraction” clichés of the “female breakdown” 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Spielberg-produced alien invasion epic with good stuff buried among the more soapy TV tropes. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z Too bad she falls into one of Marvel’s reliable tropes: the cool sister waiting in the margins of the story. ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Review: House of Hidden Dragons 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z He’s the kind of character one finds only in the richest novels and very rarely in film or television, which so often reduces white Southern men or gay men into one-dimensional tropes. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z But some viewers felt Brad Pitt’s role as an abolitionist represented the “white savior” trope, which gives white characters the credit for black characters overcoming their struggles. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “Those kinds of male-female dynamics are things that are universal. Men and women don’t understand each other, and I don’t find that in any way to be a trope.” In the Shadows of a Giant and Dinosaurs 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z There’s some really exciting stuff happening here, but ‘Top Chef’ trafficked in lazy stereotypes and tropes about Texas.” How Seattle is ‘Top Chef: Seattle’? 2013-02-27T15:41:10Z After The Office introduced the trope of sitcoms posing as cinéma vérité film-making, a bunch of critically acclaimed shows such as Modern Family and Parks and Recreation jumped on board. Mocking the mockumentary: Will Ferrell gets meta in HBO baseball special 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Turning again to Shakespeare, Mr. Branagh said that the mystical elements of “Thor” — enchanted hammers, frost giants — were no more preposterous than the supernatural tropes in plays like “Macbeth” or “The Tempest.” Summer Movies: Creating a God, With Links to Olivier 2011-04-28T13:49:44Z But YA authors are conscious of those tropes and trying to tell different kinds of stories. Queer young adult fiction grows beyond the coming out story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z In photographs of children, for instance, Kamoinge took a familiar trope — the outsider fixation on kids in poverty — and replied to it. ‘Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But aside from borrowing the trope of strychnine poisoning, Mr. Suh has used his little gray cells for other purposes. Review: With ‘Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery,’ Lloyd Suh Takes on a Legacy 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But intentionally or not, it still bolsters older, bygone tropes, of women as crazy, the mentally ill as violent, and policing as salvageable by individual, honest cops. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z A similar conversation took place just a week before after Meghan McCain managed to center herself in the debate over whether Omar used anti-Semitic tropes in her critique of the Israel lobby and U.S. empire. John Oliver is right: Wield the power of public shaming responsibly 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z One of the right's most reliable Oberlin tropes is the idea that the college and its students are at odds, somehow, with the surrounding community. Why do conservatives hate Oberlin so much? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Not only did this waste the considerable talents of the miscast Ian Hart as Goldsmith, it also meant another regurgitation of overfamiliar rock legend tropes. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z Pushing the trope further, the producers commissioned a clever elaboration that’s used as a poster for the movie. Review: Did Anyone Have a Good Time Making 'Night at the Museum 3'? 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The same tropes are bound to recur, subtly modified, as similar problems bring forth similar solutions. Planet Hollywood: is the universe full of little green men like Paul? 2011-02-18T12:38:22Z Where awards ceremonies struggle with humour, the half-time show struggles with the typical rock’n’roll tropes of sex and rebellion. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Earlier, even less direct language had it that “Democrats slammed” Trump’s words as a racist trope; editing changed that for the better. Perspective | Tiptoeing around Trump’s racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z TV has come a long way in a few decades and don’t the creators know it – both Insecure and Dear White People feature fond satire of less sophisticated tropes in their shows-within-shows. Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Eschewing a trope common to movies about music, we are denied the classic song-coming-together montage. That Zac Efron E.D.M. Movie 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s more like an exaggerated version of an old trope, an echo amplified by a megaphone. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z “What it’s done, its justifications, its tropes and idiocies.” The San Francisco Bookstore Where the Revolution Ends up 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z What relationships are possible when you let go of these tropes? "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But the parallels go beyond that trope, to other qualities that Atticus embodies, and that Biden reminds us of. Perspective | In Biden victory, a cast change: Out with Richard III, in with Atticus Finch 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z “Empire” has generally avoided kitschy musical theater tropes in its performance segments, but Laura serenading a crowded plaza, backed by an invisible band, and winning the hearts of felt like a scene out of “Glee.” ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 7: ‘True Love Never’ 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The only judgment of Ozymandias comes through Rorschach, who, with his problematic politics and psychological infirmities, is himself a spoof of the righteous-hero trope. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z “I am tired of this Marvel movie trope where the bad guy has the same powers as the hero,” said Martin. George RR Martin lambasts 'tiresome' Hollywood supervillains 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z All of the tropes of the genre are there: a colourful bunch of apathetic employees, check. Six to watch: workplace comedies 2011-08-04T14:08:03Z Hollywood has always relied on the trope of the sudden, random event — the blow to the head, the newly discovered wormhole, the accidentally activated DeLorean — to get the action going. Perspective | Summer movies circa 2019: A season of random blips and nostalgia trips 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z His alleged acts of abuse were especially insidious following a devastating presidential election year in which his coverage repeatedly resorted to sexist tropes and attacks against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Who should cover stories about sexual violence? 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z I was thinking, "What are the chick lit tropes, and how can I throw him in and see what happens?" Christopher Noxon on being a 'domestic first responder' and 'Plus One' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z BMike takes societal misinterpretations, tropes, and stereotypes and flips them, creating images of revolutionaries, artists and social-justice figures, often placed in unexpected settings. This New Orleans Artist Challenges the Way People See Things 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z One weakness last week was the way they handled the Sibelian trope of suddenly accelerated movement on an upward path, the music surging forward like a plane in takeoff on a scarily short runway. Berlin Philharmonic Goes to London in Simon Rattle Homecoming 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z For the most part, it’s a bland reprocessing of neo-noir tropes, vaguely borrowing its tone and theme from “Body Heat” and other films that are themselves reprocessings of earlier Hollywood motifs. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the modern couple’s generic conflicts, which never dig deeper than pop psychology tropes, lack the detail and nuance of the Civil War arc. Dual road trips -- then and now -- to 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Wendig's books, which blend noir and urban fantasy tropes with the gritty reality of contemporary America in a unique trailer-trash gothic style, are proof positive that pulp need not lack depth, emotion or originality. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z Although the fictional “Thanatrope” is decidedly malevolent, whenever Hand describes its lingering eeriness, she may as well be describing the power of her own writing. In ‘Hard Light,’ a heroine who’s an edgier (and older) version of Lisbeth Salander 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s just all couched in the familiar trope of the “the celebrity bump watch.” The Politics of Rihanna’s Pregnancy Style 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The trope is that people do that when words just aren’t enough and they have to express themselves in song. Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! No, Really, You Gotta! 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Twenty years on, the brilliance of Joss Whedon’s funny, tragic seven-season synthesis of most film and TV genres, literary conceits and pop cultural tropes remains undimmed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “The Promise of Elsewhere” uses the ordinary as a prism, splitting the tropes with which it plays into a surprising spectrum of colors. Where to Have Your Existential Crisis: Ann Arbor or Rome? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In academic circles, it serves as a sleepy counterpoint to the hyperawareness of “woke” social criticism, or as a more forgivable, understandable, sympathetic version of the Uncle Tom racial trope. Trapped in the Sunken Place: how Get Out’s purgatory engulfed pop culture 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z He accused the Public’s employees of “anti-Semitic tropes.” A Climate Show Was Canceled. Then Came the Finger-Pointing. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The tired romantic trope of the bed and breakfast could not be further from the reality of this James Beard Award–winning culinary landmark in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. These Are the World's Most Romantic Hotels 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z And then we go back to the rom-com tropes for the last part of the season. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Plans ‘Our Version of a Happy Ending’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z This is the logic within which the Woman in Pain trope operates. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The thing is, reality no longer conforms to those old tropes. Stop Telling Women Our Most Valuable Asset Is Our Youth 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Both protagonists follow the same trope of the bungling woman whose life crashes down around her as hilarity ensues, set against a background of middle-class privilege. A modern Bridget Jones 2012-11-11T21:30:03Z Likewise, Maxine as the "final girl" archetype also does not follow the typical rules for that character and trope. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z But lately I’ve been more obsessed with their experiments in smuggling vaporwave vibes into a double-bass solo and trap tropes into vocal music. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Noxon wanted to avoid one trope in particular: “this idea that the perfectionist quality of anorexics is their most defining trait,” she said. ‘To the Bone:’ Can you make a movie about eating disorders without glamorizing them? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z That way, I could see the tropes in these films as sweet or painful personal flashbacks, rather than cinematic conventions as remote from my experience as a Western gunfight or a Martian romance. 21 Jump Street: Rude Fun at Fantasy High 2012-03-15T16:34:26Z Nor was he above resorting to that tradition of racist witticism that named the capital "Londonistan" for hosting Muslim immigrants – in the tradition of similar reactionary tropes about "Jew York". The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z The latter coldly illustrates a murder setup over simple thumps and taps, flexing Gates’ lyrical skills and sparing any clichéd glorification of gangsta tropes. Kevin Gates: ordinary name, extraordinary Southern rapper | Concert preview 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The sad clown would be a hoary trope, if it didn’t resonate so deeply. Review: Zach Galifianakis's 'Baskets' Wrings Painful Laughs 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z These perceptions shaped the idea of tropics as a place of natural abundance, and gave rise to the trope of tropical bounty. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z As always, Sharp takes on potentially sentimental subjects with a tone which is almost shockingly unsentimental; never has the trope of a Victorian drawing master romancing his sheltered female pupil been rendered less romantic. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z It's a trope that gets old fast — I'm thinking of my flagging interest in the final episodes of Hulu's romantic drama "Normal People," a show I liked well enough at the beginning. 5 ways to fix "Bridgerton" next season to transform this guilty pleasure into guilt-free escapism 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Fans criticized that video for being a “tad racist” as well as mishmashing China and India into one fetishizing Orientalist trope. Coldplay’s eat-pray-love India: Their Beyoncé collaboration is even more insidious than cultural appropriation — and it’s not the band’s first time 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But while this was very much a return to form, it’s an old form — a definition of power that relies on hobble skirts, chopped and changed le smokings, and the boardroom/bedroom trope. Tom Ford Leads the Streetwear Resistance 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He's a brainy filmmaker, a student of his craft who's well-acquainted with well-worn cinematic tropes. 'Contagion': Hair-raising thriller keeps its cool 2011-09-07T21:42:09Z The impacted passions and disturbing aftershocks of Choe’s story—even though distilled to familiar tropes—nonetheless place “Nancy” far ahead of most acclaimed movies in theatres now. “Nancy” Reviewed: A Complex, Untapped Story of a Woman’s Desperate Hoax 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “Green Book” is the latest example of using the magical Negro literary trope to deny powerful acts of African self-determination and diminish the African role in shaping America. "Green Book": Black survival tool or white lie? 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z This is a sturdy science-fiction trope, but in these films there’s no science: no teams of earnest, frazzled-looking men and women working around the clock to avert disaster, no desperate missions. ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ and Other Apocalyptic Movies 2012-06-15T18:30:00Z The spoof is hilarious and painful, as we see all the tropes generally used to discredit women on full display. The radical subversion of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's survival narrative 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Therefore, it makes sense that the makeover trope is also part of the conversation and being scrutinized. "He's All That" and why the Pygmalion story is so important to – yet undermines – teen stories 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Currently, only 13 states in the nation require sex education to be medically accurate, and the level of general deficiency has become something of a trope on television. Netflix's "Sex, Explained" finds a balance between smart and steamy 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z This foolish trope ups the viewers’ degree of difficulty in following the story and reduces the level of their commitment. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s a thoughtful approach to the genre’s usual tropes, and Williams excels as a conflicted good guy. Perspective | ‘The Chi,’ ‘Versace,’ ‘Altered Carbon’ and other winter shows to help you hibernate 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The filmmaker Eli Roth kicks off the second season of this show, where he delves into common horror tropes and explores how the genre has evolved through the years. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soulmates’ and the Vice-Presidential Debate 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z We don’t care about making Mildred softer, or more motherly, or any of those usual Hollywood tropes. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Most often, his work tends to cast women into narrow tropes and roles. Just like a woman: I’m a feminist and I love Bob Dylan—even though I know I shouldn’t 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It was panned for its inability to go beyond crude jokes and racial tropes for laughs. Nicole Byer is nailing it 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z The film subverts genre tropes, and takes the opportunity to explore the sexism that is, the film argues, inherent in the Greek system. Sex, booze and stupidity: fratboys on film, from Animal House to Goat 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Plaster-less dipstick attempts to reboot driving = shagging trope and gets it embarrassingly wrong. Sweet Baboo, Nelly, Nadine Shah: this week's new tracks 2013-04-15T05:00:00Z It was a traditional trope, and it asked to entitle a work which combined a concern with tradition and a bizarre technique.” Unpublished "Clockwork Orange" sequel discovered — here are the first details 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The kids are straight out of the TV tropes playbook — from the cool, eye rolling eldest teen daughter to the adorably underachieving youngest son. You should be watching “Black-ish” with your kids 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z This common trope is given new life by Malcolm, who makes Brooke’s evolution believable through a tactile physical performance that takes advantage of every bead of sweat and every speck of dirt on her body. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z There are shades of Adams’ comical tempo here, with layers of “Monty Python”-inspired visual gags and tropes familiar to fans of high concept American movie comedies. Marvelously strange: “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” asks us to trust that it’s all connected 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z But like everything in pop, there's a hierarchy, and while big-name stars can have their pick of the most emotive objects, singers knocking around pop's second division have to make do with more laboured tropes. Swim Deep, Gabrielle Aplin, Jai McDowall: this week's new tracks 2013-05-03T12:00:00Z However, the “failed Thanksgiving dinner” trope is bigger than that. Why the "failed Thanksgiving dinner" is actually the best sitcom trope 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Hutchinson said the theme was intended to demonstrate “mutual respect,” rather than fall into tropes of intergenerational antagonism. Black Artists Pioneered Electronic Music. This Festival Celebrates Them. 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The romantic tropes won't serve for a whole lifetime in mainstream fiction. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z “I am so tired of this old trope, this old stereotype about anti-gay florists,” he said. Jon Stewart wonders 'what is wrong' with same-sex marriage opponents 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z All these simplifying narrative tropes were deeply embedded in World War II movies; but Bertolini has also seen The Hurt Locker. Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess 2011-03-11T11:05:00Z A phenomenally grounded Biko Eisen-Martin as Mr. Isaiah, the facility’s English teacher, helps the Whitney White-directed production skirt the trope of the saintly educator who brings out the best in his pupils. ‘Soft’ Review: Young Black Men, Gently Pointed Toward Liberation 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z My colleague Alison Stine already pointed out the many ways the show fails its queer characters by sliding into ancient tropes. How "And Just Like That" makes its new friends compete for a seat at the table 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z “Marco Polo” seems to draw on every available trope of cinematic Orientalism — there are ancient dynasties, bloody battles and the martial arts. Netflix’s ‘Marco Polo’ is so plodding that it’s practically binge-proof 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The types and tropes were all there—mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive parents, delusional teachers, a bad-boy crush—but they were relentlessly amplified, turned into grotesques. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Tolkien for inspiring entire races and subclasses within the D&D game that were built on racist tropes and reinforced harmful stereotypes. Who’s Playing Dungeons & Dragons These Days? The Usual Fans, and Then Some. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Get Out starts with a familiar trope – the audience sees Lakeith Stanfield’s character walking through a bland suburb before being thrown into a car and driven away. From Blacula to Get Out: the documentary examining black horror 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Empire does a fine job of injecting pathos, humor and humanity into those genre tropes, though. Empire's state of mind: the new TV shows highlighting African Americans 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The trope of humble beginnings, innate gift, self-determination and ultimate triumph mirrors the composer’s own life story. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Expect every comic book trope — the buxom lover, for example, or the British bad guy — but always with a wink. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Amanda Knox’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z National Geographic Channel is bringing a dramatic trope from hospital shows like Grey’s Anatomy and E.R. to life. National Geographic Will Air First Live Brain Surgery 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z But even Billy’s surname is an unsubtle reference to the ancient racist boxing trope of the Great White Hope, the wholesome and immensely marketable American hero who will rescue the sport from irredeemable blackness. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Either way, this work turns on its head the old trope about architecture being frozen music. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z Other characters in the series are also presented as tropes that don’t get complicated in ways that are particularly interesting, and yet aren’t campy enough to get played off as simply absurd. Insatiable: how offensive is Netflix's controversial new comedy? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Whether this is metacommentary on the extent to which movies have taken over our dreams or just a lazy reliance on shopworn tropes -- that one’s a toss-up. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z The criminal-genius trope has become an easy instant recipe — just add slaughter — for transgressive TV ambition. Review: Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ Is More Chatter Than Splatter 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The early days of Covid-19 — “the Chinese virus,” as our hapless, xenophobic president has called it — dovetailed neatly with one of Trump’s favorite tropes, a fear of immigrants and foreigners. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Erpenbeck uses both tropes, but reinvents them, so that they seem anything but formulaic. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z And far from subverting the trope of the “tragic mulatto,” Senna toys with it. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Post-heartbreak ice cream holds a secure spot in the library of TV tropes. Who gets the recipes in the divorce? What to do when serious relationships that involve cooking end 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z As Jamison puts it, the ubiquity of this trope suggests the possibility that "being a woman requires being in pain, that pain is the unending glue and prerequisite of female consciousness." "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But compare Yiadom-Boakye with another artist, Kehinde Wiley, who deliberately inserts black faces and bodies into some of the most mannered tropes of Western art, and it’s clear something very different is going on. Review | An artist who summons black faces and bodies at ease in the world 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z On “Track Record,” Lambert bemoans her romantic woes, and “Tequila Does” is a cleverer take on the succumbing-to-alcohol trope than it deserves. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It's an overfamiliar standup trope, which feels off-the-peg rather than from the heart. Phill Jupitus ? review 2011-08-09T11:44:08Z Until the late 19th century, indeed, the smell of fried fish was a common anti-Semitic trope in Britain. In London, eat your way through the history — and future — of fish and chips 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z And their shared starting point, a vanished white girl, plays into a vicious colonial trope: purity, savagery and the quiet nobility of hardscrabble pastoralists. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z “The trope of the bridezilla,” says Kay, “does a lot of ideological work in trying to keep women in their place.” How ‘bridezilla’ became this summer’s biggest sexist slur 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Just in time for Halloween, “Slade House” opens its rusty door on a ghost story that dresses up all the dusty old tropes with Mitchell’s spirit and wit. David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Toews captures the Mennonites’ antique way of speaking, a language thick with biblical tropes and Christian ideals challenged by the obscenity of what has been done to them. Review | More than 100 women were raped by their neighbors for years — but no one would believe them. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Leda, squashed between the trope of the young muse whose vitality sustains the aging artist and that of the daughter whose disobedience angers the jealous father, is at risk of losing sight of herself. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z There’s a reason that “meeting the parents” is such an often-used sitcom trope. Dear “Mindy Project”: It’s time to introduce Mindy Lahiri’s parents 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z These gradually began to display Hollywood stylistic tics and tropes as the available American product exerted its influence. Yugoslavia, paradise on earth, just a shame about the films 2012-11-16T14:00:02Z The newer works — all commissioned by the group — updated vintage tropes and styles. Review | Claremont Trio energetically amplifies historical currents 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The bromance has become a familiar trope in movie comedies lately, and Mr. Eisenberg’s variation on the theme is probably subtler than most. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z The Daniels’ command of modern cinematic tropes is encyclopedic, and also eccentric. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z On Twitter, critics cited a slave auction that plays a central role in the book’s plot as evidence that “Blood Heir” borrows the tropes of chattel slavery without fully engaging with them. In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Autobiographies of the enslaved, central to the Abolitionist cause before the Civil War, brought political and moral urgency to the tropes of violated innocence and daring escape. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Host Rob Lowe and his guests walk us through the origins of the tropes of "walking away from an explosion," or the "meet cute," or, of course, "women running in stilettos," among many, many more. From a "Dear White People" swan song to Tokyo assassins, here's what's new on Netflix in September 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z “How desperate must he have been to align himself with some trope in its death throes to sell a record?” Lance Loud Was an Early Reality Star. He Was Also a Gay Punk Pioneer. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Your story in this week’s issue, “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm,” is one in a series of short pieces you’ve been writing that draw on cinema tropes. This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on Our National Disdain for the “Intellectual” 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z She captures all eyes until the very last shot of… we won’t say, except to hint that Hitchcock’s prime avatar never tires of his old Psycho tropes. Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice 2012-09-15T12:00:50Z Critics have long said that the slaves are depicted as well-treated, content and loyal to their masters, a trope that rewrites the reality of how enslaved people were forced to live. HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Cheap-looking and unpleasant — too many scenes boast a sickly green sheen, as if viewed through a haze of nausea — “Black Site” is a pointless rehash of war-on-terror tropes. ‘Black Site’ Review: Stranger Danger 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The rest of the time, like fishing itself, there's something soothing about the familiar tropes of the workday format. The 5 most inexplicably popular reality shows 2010-05-12T04:38:00Z Home The X-Files also took in some of the darker tropes from horror. The X-Files: 12 episodes to get you ready for Mulder and Scully's new series 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Cody is about 92 percent white; a reporter for Billboard who visited last October spoke to residents who associated Kanye’s presence in town with racist tropes, such as increased crime levels. Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Jones wasn’t that intellectually gifted, for one thing; he did have a “stunning charisma,” but his ideas were a flimsy synthesis of New Age tropes and spiritual Darwinism. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z For me, it was caricatured tropes that painted an individual as either incredibly heroic or incredibly broken. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The characters Lee has created are unique and brilliant – a far cry from usual fantasy tropes and all the better for it. World of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee 2010-08-27T10:05:00Z Many of these films deliberately mimic the tropes and stylistic tics of indie cinema – alienated teenagers, dysfunctional families, meditations on suburban soulnessness, self-consciously quirky humour, and a generous resort to shock tactics or the taboo . Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z His style isn’t substance but a decoration of substance; its essence is in tropes, not in compositions. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z There is human complexity to this transdimensional being that likes to toy with its prey, a sense that there is a personality with issues beneath the one-liners and horror villain tropes. "It Chapter Two": Flawed but effective follow-up to 2017's horror hit 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Believe me, there are tropes in this movie that will appear as nothing else. ArtsBeat: Joss Whedon on Assembling 'The Avengers' 2012-04-11T14:00:26Z As a professor of theater and media who has written extensively on the elements of stage drama, I wonder: Are writers and directors finally poised to move beyond these narrative tropes? On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Within the span of a few hours, it seemed, Zellweger became a one-stop trope for the tyranny of sexism and appearance in Hollywood, where the system is notoriously unforgiving of women who dare to age. From ‘Birdman’ to Zellweger: the actor as screen object She's taken a hoary old trope — murder and mayhem at an isolated English estate — and turned it into something authentically moving and scary. 'Instruments of Darkness': murder and mayhem on an English country estate 2011-02-16T23:38:13Z And there's the misconception that maybe adopted kids' parents didn't want them or tried to kill them, and it's a trope. Justin Chon on his heartbreaking "Blue Bayou": "I wanted to do justice to the adoptee community" 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z But at the same time, they're still able to have a twinkle in their eye about like watching Christmas movies themselves and the silly tropes people get caught up in. "Ghosts" star Rose McIver on poking fun at the Christmas movie, cultural appropriation and all 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z When the plot of “Love Hard” and Yang’s casting were revealed, there was immediate criticism that the story would hinge on the trope of the nerdy Asian guy not being a believable romantic option. Jimmy O. Yang’s Crab Club feasts on Asian American stories 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The movie is a comedy of sorts; its faithfulness to the tropes of the Western is realized, at first, in winks—but it soon turns breathtakingly serious without sacrificing its wit. Highlights from BAMCinemaFest 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “Then we use the movie to constantly feed that character. And allowing the trope to become a fully realized character was the goal.” In ‘The Blackening,’ Rather Than Dying First, Getting the Last Laugh 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Built on familiar tropes and repeated melodic motifs, “Into the Woods” is deceptively welcoming; thanks to the 2014 movie and innumerable school performances, it is probably Sondheim’s best-known work. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Some tropes are familiar from Hogg's first film. Archipelago ? review 2011-03-03T15:01:00Z But this album also reflects a slowdown in the Drake Industrial Complex: He’s pulled back on sonic innovation, and his story tropes are becoming familiar. Is Drake Tired of Drake? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The quandary of what “Blackest” means puts this movie squarely in the company of others that have used genre tropes to make sense of race in America. ‘The Blackening’ Review: Race Against a Killer 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The crucified feet nicely resonate with another of Michele’s repeated tropes: shots of his own feet inside his own fantastical Gucci footwear, set off against interestingly patterned rugs or marble floors. A Portrait of the Creative Mind Behind Gucci, on Instagram 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Before long, white writers were using the trope to sensationalise novels. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Instead, writer and director Yeon Sang-ho plays with South Korean tropes and subverts them to show that who we perceive people to be has no bearing on who they are morally. Hollywood, please stop adapting K-dramas. It's not just unnecessary, it's racist 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z "The Affair" is wildly ambitious, with pretensions toward art and insight that belie its criminal investigation trope. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The sorting ritual is a prized trope of young adult literature. From Gryffindor to Dauntless: “Insurgent” and our obsession with young adult sorting rituals 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Some day, Nathan Rabin's identification of the "manic pixie dream girl" trope will be seen as the movie equivalent of isolating the polio virus. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z "The idea of an abandoned colony on a distant planet is a great SF trope, and Chris Beckett is unflinching in answering the challenges posed by his original 'what if?' concept," said Hunter. Chris Beckett wins Arthur C Clarke award for Dark Eden 2013-05-01T20:01:01Z Perhaps with Louis CK's career destruction we can get past those tropes. Comedy Is Booming. I Can’t Wait for the Bust. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z A more relevant question for “GLOW” — especially in a year when a toxic masculinity was literally inaugurated — might be how the show both exposes and parodies the tropes of manliness as an elaborate, fragile front. Man up, ladies! How “GLOW” exposes “manliness” as an elaborate, fragile front 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Graham Greene often plays a wise First Nations character; his tribal cop roles in "Thunderheart" and "Wind River" are classic examples of that trope. Actor Graham Greene on how fear & golf relate: "It's a game where you get to play against yourself" 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Putting a fresh, insightful spin on familiar tropes, the show is a pure serotonin hit. 7 Fiction Podcasts Ready Made for Vacation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Largely why millennial women remain committed to toxic relationships is because we don’t identify with the timid, battered housewife trope, and our relationship with success and failure is almighty. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Part II” plays on themes in Norwegian culture and politics with each voice in the opera representing a trope: the tenor the artist, the soprano the state, and the choir the populace. Steinar Haga Kristensen Is One of a Wave of New Artists Reviving the Norwegian Capital 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I did an installation, "Melrose Avenue, Eastbound" that is a way of me going from west to east and painting about these tropes. From nanny to international art star: Ramiro Gomez on how his paintings reveal the labor that makes California cool possible 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z It is good that Nancy became a radical activist and that Jane filed a Title IX complaint, and Raychelle fights against the "angry black woman" trope. "Picture a Scientist" examines the hostile, sexist STEM environments that drive women to leave 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z And, like the old Native American burial ground trope, the basement channels Syd’s teenage rage into Carrie-like powers that levitate objects when she is upset and kill her brother’s pet hedgehog. I Am Not Okay With This: more Big Teen Emotions from the Stranger Things team 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z At the same time, she rejects the trope of the angsty teenager, capturing adolescent alienation with buoyancy and subtle whimsy. ‘Spring Blossom’ Review: Youth’s Fickle Desires 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z It takes the time-honored allegorical trope of a boat journey down a river into the wilderness, flecked with glints of reality. Fall preview: From ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ to ‘Dragon Rhyme,’ fantasy resounds in D.C. Someone is always willing to try again, usually by unpacking the old tropes of holiday specials. If it’s not on TV, is it technically a TV Christmas special? Even if it stars Bill Murray? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In essence, this is just the latest iteration of the “motley crew of lovable misfits overcomes obstacles on its way to nationals” trope. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I wonder if, in my 20s, I believed this trope was true? The trope of ‘her indoors’ is alive and well. Rather that than be silenced | Coco Khan 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The tropes are all there: the tough talk about family loyalty, the sit-downs at Italian restaurants, and, of course, the confrontations. "Real Housewives'" child exploitation 2010-05-31T18:01:00Z She even lived out a movie trope: She cut her hair short, a symbol of her continuing artistic transformation. A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z When he tosses a few discarded rags at Rosalind and Celia to help them conceal their identities, a much more tired trope is being reinforced, that of the man as protector. Synetic’s ‘As You Like It’ stretches the Bard, and the audience’s patience 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Does a film need to trot out the virtues of on-screen diversity and the negative effect of racist tropes that so many have constantly parroted in recent years? ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: A Miracle Decade 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The endorsement deals that made them relatively rich coincided with a revitalized surfing aesthetic that did away with lingering Beach Boys tropes and imbued the scene with Gen-X cachet. Review | In HBO’s ‘Momentum Generation,’ the tide turns for the star surfers of the 1990s 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z That leaves you with two hyper-masculinist tropes running in tandem, to which all other considerations – courtesy, fairness, respect – are subordinate. ‘The manager was selling coke to staff’: the truth about top restaurants 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z As for the Asian characters, whose role in part is to provide the chorus of dissent against the McCulloughs, they also fall under tropes. Review | Celeste Ng grapples with both sides of the debate over interracial adoptions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z From accommodating Uncle Toms to superior mulattoes to soulful Africans, the book also popularized any number of lasting racist tropes. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The trouble is, it's easy enough to write an avant-garde novel by making selections from the congealing buffet of approved avant-garde tropes – decay, topography, Heidegger, electricity pylons, the supposed debility of language, etc. My hero: Charlie Kaufman by Ned Beauman 2012-08-17T21:55:11Z And some of the tropes in the film — the woman trying to steal another woman’s man, questions about whether it’s possible to “have it all” — feel outdated. ‘The First Noelle’ Review: All I Want for Christmas Is My Ex 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Now, yes, it is true that in a sense, I’m deconstructing those tropes, those myths, the things that were hallmarks. George R.R. Martin Is Finally Getting the Show He Wanted 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z And similarly, many of the films in the series reject not only the faces typically seen in Hollywood motion pictures but also the storytelling conventions and tropes. What came before ‘Daughters of the Dust’: A new series focuses on little-known works from black female filmmakers 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” which begins its final season Friday, hasn’t shied away from looking at the many ways in which women are affected by systematic bias, bamboozled by romantic tropes and made insecure by unrealistic expectations. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Plans ‘Our Version of a Happy Ending’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “Poetry saved my life” — well, there’s a self-help trope that’s all too easy to set to uplifting music. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Wong, however, with his predilection for woozy atmospherics, riper-than-ripe visual tropes, and shimmering decorative surface, has delivered a far from conventional example of the genre. The Grandmaster - review 2013-02-08T00:59:36Z Her exhibition at Cherry and Martin irreverently mixes high art tropes with construction materials, photographic techniques and a craft sensibility. Katy Cowan: Art about art, with a playful side 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z By tracing the faintest of threads through history for the first time – namely, the evolution of gender nonconfirming and trans characters on screen – we see shockingly vivid patterns and tropes emerge. 'Tough but profoundly cathartic': can Disclosure change trans representation on screen? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Though the script, written by Nolan with his brother Jonathan, incorporates some "familiar science fiction tropes," he said, it also "manages to investigate some compelling emotional material." 'Interstellar' is an ambitious, imperfect sci-fi epic, reviews say 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Frequently at the movies, the past is not a foreign country, but an easily assimilable digest of recognisable historical tropes, offering the comforts of home away from home, like a cruise liner. Hollywood's terrible track record with historical dramas labours on 2013-07-08T12:31:18Z With the Scream trilogy, Kevin Williamson made clever horror, using a deep awareness of the genre’s tropes and playing with the audience’s expectations of them. From Clueless to Tarantino: why the 90s was Hollywood’s fairytale decade 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z One thing that I found interesting too in your special is you talked about the two dominant tropes for immigrants in the U.S.: the bad-take-jobs-bring-crime propaganda or simply a victim, and both are dehumanizing. Pulled off a bus by Border Patrol: Mohanad Elshieky on ICE, comedy and "peak white liberalism" 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Dara Horn, the American author of the 2021 book “People Love Dead Jews,” an exploration of anti-Semitic attitudes, said that this story fits into a trope of Jews turning against Jews. Scholars Doubt New Theory on Anne Frank’s Betrayal 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z You could see the abandoned-Earth trope – a classic return to innocence – as a reaction to current global issues such as overpopulation and environmental pressures. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z You know, your usual family TV show tropes. ‘Here and Now,’ a New Supernatural Drama From the Creator of ‘True Blood’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Further, coming-of-age movies for girls now even seem like a popular trope. ‘Now and Then’ at 25: Girlhood Finally Taken Seriously 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Moreno-Garcia: Although zombies are by now synonymous with pandemics, there are a number of novels that avoid this popular infection trope. Review | Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z And most often, the novels in this new wave straddle more than one genre as they use time tropes to explore relationships and probe mysteries. Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z These are her tropes; this is what she does, and this is how you write her: Has the Girls revolution come to an end? 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Credit where it's due: Rise of the Guardians provides a welcome distraction at an event that has otherwise been rather too in thrall to broad continental comedy and over-familiar social-realist tropes. Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-14T12:17:15Z But the autobiographical tropes can be trying for friends, family members, ex-husbands and former lovers. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Over 11 songs, the words begin to scrape the surface of something serious and human before reverting to the band’s usual glam rock tropes. On Hot Cakes, The Darkness Has More Sass Than Soul 2012-08-22T16:30:33Z Time-travel is a recurring trope in pop film and TV culture. Queen Sugar: why it's a time travel show for black audiences 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Except for its scenes involving animals, this handsome, excessively fastidious screen adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s 2007 nonfiction best seller is a polite but pallid recycling of Holocaust movie tropes with epic pretensions. Review: In ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife,’ the Holocaust Seems Tame 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Thematically, "I Never Loved a Man" isn't all that different from the Columbia release of "Won't Be Long" – it essentially plays into same male fantasy trope. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z It is a frankly pretty weird attempt to interpolate our own sensibility into an American combative trope – jock v nerd – that we don't even fully understand, that we've just picked up off the telly. TV review: Beaver Falls; Harold Baim's Britain on Film 2011-07-27T21:00:01Z But the heavy use of spy tropes only emphasizes how inert and uninvolving the tale is. Review: ‘Radio Delirio’ Focuses on a Forgettable Man 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Of course saying "aha, it was limbo all along" is just a marginally more profound way of saying "aha, it was a dream all along", a trope which became a cliche through overuse. Screen burn 2010-05-28T23:41:00Z By discarding black and white tropes in favor for something a bit grayer, the plot mirrors an intellectual journey that I, and so many others, have made. The Leftovers: confusion and doubt mirrors my religious journey 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Not only did she escape the kept-princess trope, but she reversed it by bringing her husband with her. Perspective | Meghan Markle just flipped the princess fantasy on its big crowned head 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The best covers are a folky pastiche, relying on familiar tropes from movie posters and video games, and applying layers of digital effects and clip art to make something memorable. Celebrating the Fast-Moving, Bug-Eyed, Wily World of Hip-Hop Mixtape Covers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The unfortunate timing of it coming out right after a hilarious spoof of “chick flick” tropes in a superhero context on “SNL” was just too much to ignore. My “Supergirl” hypocrisy: Female superheroes don’t need to be “broken” to kick ass 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z And while “Seven Psychopaths,” a riff on various macho Hollywood tropes set mostly in Los Angeles, mostly drew positive reviews, it was not a box-office success. Martin McDonagh’s ‘Hangmen,’ a Mordant Stage Homecoming in London 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The female clique atop the teen social hierarchy is a well-loved trope. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Here, yet again, was a villain with a disability, one of the oldest, and, for many, most damaging, storytelling tropes still around. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z This is a recurring trope in cinematic dialogue, used here as another wink at the audience. "Watchmen" finale: One last reveal explains all those eggs and the crushing weight of legacy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The "Padma stops by out of nowhere" trope is always fun and I liked seeing the cheftestants maraud through the halls letting their fellow competitors know that they should go downstairs. "Top Chef: World All Stars" meets "Downton Abbey" for an elevated picnic Mrs. Patmore would hate 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Sciarrino also uses the Baroque trope of a chorus that narrates and comments on the action. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Hands that built the garments, most of which referenced classic couture tropes but revealed the work and structure inside: the boning of corsetry, the tulle underskirts, the linings of trousers and horsehair stuffing of suiting. In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean? 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Hiding one’s own wild teen antics from one’s children is practically a sitcom trope. My not-so-maternal instinct: I refuse to lie to my kids 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z “Smile” deploys similar tropes—a creep-shot story line, a flubbed dance routine, a contestant performing uncomfortable ethnic schtick—but it does so with more subtlety, and without appearing to dehumanize its characters. “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z In the popular canon the trope of the “magical Negro” is a black character who turns up exclusively to aid, often through uncanny wisdom, a white character. In ‘Magical Negro,’ Morgan Parker’s Poems Challenge White Ideas of Blackness 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The source was a vintage postcard from Jamaica, a trope in colonial depictions. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Though “Lovecraft Country” has every flavor of creaturely nightmares, its biggest horror is the way it misuses historical woes and seems blind to its own perpetuation of damaging tropes. The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z I think the episode manages this, especially if you are familiar with the tropes of Doctor Who. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Ligeti uses one of the most familiar tropes in music, a horn call, as a crucial motif. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z If he has any bias, it’s to make sure that Black people are portrayed as the complex, multi-faceted people they are, much more than the tropes that often show up in popular media, Williams said. For Black journalists, working Chauvin trial drains emotions 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Ulman grew up with the Web and its tropes intrigue her. Social media have become a vital tool for artists — but are they good for art? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But worse still was the show’s reliance on tropes around addiction that, if they ever really worked on TV, have grown tired. 'Vinyl' on HBO Was a Major Disappointment: What Went Wrong? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z No matter, it’s a well-worn horror trope that doesn’t seem to lose its punch with repetition. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Picture this in 'Pittura Infamante' 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The musical, by Andrew Lloyd Baughman and with lyrics by Phil Close, spends most of its energy fondly lampooning “Glee” rather than “Scream,” with songs inspired by some of the TV series’s more tired tropes. ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Gleeam' 2011-08-18T19:49:44Z Yet the writers are choosing to show us the same old trope of girls shopping, staggering home swinging plastic-coated single-use bags carrying numerous items of clothing that will be worn once or twice. The missing ingredient in fighting climate change: positive fictional role models 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z There are tried and tested horror film music tropes too, of course. These Composers Are Maestros of Menace 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Ansari made her a pivotal part of the series; a no-nonsense confidant who was elevated above the trope of the “black best friend”, and instead became a fully rounded character. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z William Black at The Atlantic explores the fruit’s history as a racist trope. Roundup: Art, money and Art Basel, plus taco gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z There are certain tropes: Vilde is the naive, socially awkward striver, for example, but mostly the show’s characters are realistically flawed young people dealing with growing up. Skam: the hit Norwegian teen show headed for a US remake 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “A Lot of Nothing” touches on microaggressions, colorism, class, gentrification, fertility, veganism and the sexual fantasies of a biracial Black woman who is this movie’s update on the tragic mulatto trope. ‘A Lot of Nothing’ Review: The Cop Next Door 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The White Boyfriend offers a compelling opportunity to reconsider and rewrite classic and racist tropes within interracial romances. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z While many people — though certainly not all — try to be more sensitive about race, orientation and heritage, ageist tropes ran rampant. It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “Troubled male genius” is an old trope, but Miller elevates it to new heights. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Sweet Tooth takes the familiar tropes of the Cold War thriller – secrecy, betrayal, deception – to examine fiction writing and the relationship between author and reader. Book Club with Ian McEwan 2013-05-21T14:46:41Z It is also globally famous, not as a place on a map but as a poetic trope, a metaphor for an organic community. In praise of ? East Coker 2011-08-22T20:10:48Z Andrews knew this was a familiar comic trope plumbed in movies like “The 40-year-Old Virgin,” and that’s why he was skeptical of it. Inside the Minds of Two Expert Improv Comedians 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Ari’s ideal of motherhood is a gentle, nurturing feminist utopia, one she passionately espouses and unsteadily embodies through all the modern hippie-mom tropes. A mother’s fury: ‘After Birth,’ a novel by Elisa Albert 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z If “Scream” were just a lark, a feature-length riff on horror tropes, it would be as tiresome and predictable as the movies it’s satirizing. ‘Scream’ at 25: How Meta Can You Get? 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Is his suspension from the Brooklyn Nets the result of posting on social media a link to a movie characterized as containing antisemitic tropes? "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z He wanted to use all the tropes of Westerns, like having the posse come after them. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z What Carlson speaks of is a deplorably common trope in the criminal justice system and in the media when the victim of any form of violence is marginalized. Gretchen Carlson says the Bill Cosby verdict gives her hope: “It was really emotional for me” 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The last, future single mother of Serenity, Helen, bucks the TV trope by being older, unmarried, successful and Black. "Sweet Magnolias" is full of single moms – too bad it misses what solo parenting is really like 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z "Marrow" makes use of several tropes common in other novels of the late nineteenth century. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z And it labors under the weight of some tired tropes — secret societies guarding secret knowledge through the ages, people willing to do anything to live forever. Early on, 'Intruders' gets swallowed by the dark 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Contemporary white supremacy is a mishmash of old anti-Semitic tropes, racist pseudoscience and bizarre fantasia — what Lavin calls a “bigot’s pastiche.” An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z These criteria gave rise to slapstick based on simple tropes, as well as to the idea that performers could “borrow” and “build off of” other acts. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In many ways, it was an opportunity to subvert a lot of those tropes. Big Mess on Campus: Making ‘Emergency’ 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z She also plays with metaphor as a literary construct, along with other tropes like transitions, dialogue and “economy of form.” Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Still, a little digging shows that the idea of sleeping on the subway was for a long time what a liberal-arts college T.A. would call a “persistent trope.” Let Us Sleep on the Subways! 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The robot that wants to attain personhood is one of science fiction’s most persistent tropes. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Why are we attracted to these particular tropes?” An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Tower’s piece is the sixth of a series titled “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman,” a trope on the famous Copland number. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z A photograph by Cindy Sherman shows her appropriating and pastiching all the most characteristic visual tropes of witches, such as warty chin and huge hooked nose. Witches fly high in major summer show 2013-03-22T13:00:59Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 24: Our contest for ideas for man-in-desert cartoons and other tropes. Style Invitational Week 1398: This is the year that is 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The trope of the laughably frumpy worker bee, filled with optimism and quiet wisdom, is demeaning, and Mrs. Harris’s iteration is no exception. ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ Review: High Fashion for the Humble 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z When we first meet Meloni’s August Pullman, in the pilot episode, he appears to fit the trope of the “white savior” we’ve seen in other slavery-era stories, but that illusion is swiftly shattered. Christopher Meloni on His 'More Wolf Than Human' Slave Catcher in 'Underground' 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z These ADD habits have leached into pop from hip-hop and R&B and are now further addled by European rave tropes. Haim; Ellie Goulding – review 2012-09-29T23:05:37Z On a lesser show, Scott and Stonebridge would have remained within the comfortable confines of their familiar character tropes. Saying Goodbye to Strike Back’s Odd Couple 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z A pity, since Winston's backup team of Frankie's friends could have been loads of fun, problematic tropes aside — I mean, it's all relative right? Don't check into Peacock's John Wick spinoff "The Continental," not even to check out Mel Gibson 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z She was referring to a trope made famous in 1930s films, but there was also something of an actual show. Sag Harbor’s Historic Cinema Saved 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z With references to his own back catalog, and the tropes of couture. Marc Jacobs and the Ghosts of Fashion Past and Future 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z More complex, more sophisticated stories and representations need to replace the simplistic, outdated and cliched tropes that have been consistently rewarded at the Oscars. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Louisa is just the latest example of the most well-worn of romantic tropes: making your female lead clumsy, socially graceless, or generally inept in order to make her more “relatable.” We like women better when they fall: “Me Before You” stumbles into the same old “relatable” trap 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Dory is the hipster loser trope made famous in Girls, High Maintenance and Master of None. The best TV of 2016 … that you probably didn't watch 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But in between its spot-on music doc tropes—the meddling girlfriend, the unwarranted arrogance, the misplaced value on volume—are songs as catchy as they are ridiculous. 11 of the Most Memorable Original Movie Musicals 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Some critics viewed Jolene as veering “dangerously into ‘guardian angel’ and ‘magical Negro’ trope territory,” referring to Black characters whose only apparent purpose is to aid and enlighten white protagonists. Moses Ingram Knows You Wanted More of Her in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The first is to replace the usual horror tropes with stealth kitchen-sink realism. Review: ‘The Cured,’ in Which Former Zombies Turn to New Terrorism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Evidence: Other comedians of similar descent will mine their parents’ accents for comic effect — sage-like South Asian parents are practically a pop-cultural trope. He makes white privilege a punch line. Will America get the joke? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This series works the tropes without the humor, and the result too often feels exploitive. ‘Stalker’ Stars Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z His favourite trope is the paradox, and his six months in Siberia are full of contradiction. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Its trailer, focusing on generic horror tropes, did nothing to quell fears. Comic-Con match-ups: Who won? 2010-07-26T05:46:00Z Westworld, which has just entered its second season, is no stranger to this trope. Is Westworld an anti-human fable? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The inability to experience pleasure is a common trope in comedy, but what Marc Maron or Woody Allen would take a minute to describe, Mr. Newhart gets across in a pinched glance. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Besides, the series also relied on another trope of anthologies to bring in viewers: guest star roles. Lame, lazy, lifeless: have TV anthologies lost their way? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “Yes, definitely, because it’s such a trope of trans storytelling. This is my story of starting a family – so what on earth has my old name got to do with it?” The dad who gave birth: ‘Being pregnant doesn't change me being a trans man’ 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Cats: the most ubiquitous and unforeseen pop-culture trope of the new millennium. Cats Meet Hip-Hop 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Here the tropes include the grouchy chief, the conceited and sexist male surgeon, the sudden and difficult childbirth. Review: In ‘Good Karma Hospital,’ Some Familiar TV Templates 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z We could have played into visual tropes to make her attractive in the tribunal. "Anatomy of a Fall" inverses the formulaic whodunit and shows the "limitations of a courtroom" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Is it – as nay-sayers believe – a savage, uncontrolled and splenetic attack on modern British life, culture, mores and tropes? Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-09T23:06:18Z The staging is always exquisite, invariably incorporating the most fashionable choreographic tropes, but beneath the surface gloss there hasn't always been much sign of life. Nederlands Dans Theater; Counterpoint; Slow Dancing 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z If we address Nolan's track record with female characters, he is known for two tropes: Dead Wife and Woman in A Refrigerator. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z I want to know why we reuse these tropes uncritically, reaching for analog without asking what gives it power. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z But the horror movie tropes that turn up make this "Paranormal" feels a lot more "normal" and run of the mill than you'd expect. 'Paranormal Activity 2': Poltergeist frights pack less punch in polished sequel 2010-10-22T16:24:00Z The scripts overhaul the moldiest genre tropes -- interstellar invasions, time travel loops, dimension-hopping inventions -- and infuse them with such warmth and silliness that they seem fresh again. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z Suffice it to say that, other than the borderland setting of "The Counselor," there's nary a Western trope to be seen. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s a trope that extends from “Dangerous Liaisons” to the librarian who whips off her glasses and lets down her hair to reveal she is actually a hottie. Why Did We Fall for the Angels? 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “We didn’t want to fall into the trap of using psychedelic visual tropes — wild colors, rainbow streaks, morphing images,” Ellwood wrote in an email. With ‘How to Change Your Mind,’ Taking a Trip With Michael Pollan 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Might she not be a reiteration of an old trope: Eris, the terrible goddess of discord, who threw the golden apple to Paris, thereby causing the Trojan War? Love's True Kiss: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The idea of rich people having suddenly to survive without money is an old comedy trope. Q&A: Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara on comedy, Canada, 'Creek' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z “It’s a virtue, a value, a trope and an aesthetic. As far as studied nonchalance is concerned, that’s how you learn.” Brooks Brothers Revives the Preppiest Shirt Collar 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Yet it’s a fascinating experiment, fusing Almodóvar’s usual obsessions with genre tropes in entertaining and unnerving fashion, and it features one of the darkest turns to date from Antonio Banderas, his frequent collaborator and avatar. ‘Definition Please,’ ‘Cyrus’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “There’s like 100 tropes that are exploded in this film,” Ejiofor said. Jolie and Pfeiffer battle for power in 'Maleficent' sequel 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Better yet, it eschews the problem of the vast majority of video games, namely, that they are too reliant on tropes of user interface control that only a seasoned gamer would understand. "Kentucky Route Zero," a magical realism masterpiece, is proof art can thrive in trying times 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The usual Austen players are there, but “Persuasion,” Austen’s last completed novel, is more than an amalgamation of tropes and themes from her earlier works; it’s a natural progression from “Emma” and “Sense and Sensibility.” Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It's a subtle change, hardly the dramatic makeover montage that has become a trope of many comedies geared to women. Melissa McCarthy's star power helps her go out on a limb with 'Tammy' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Edwards, whose credits include “Monsters” and the 2014 remake of “Godzilla,” said that “Rogue One” deliberately reverses some of the tropes of the original “Star Wars” trilogy and the story of Luke Skywalker. From ‘Rogue One’: A Rising Star in a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Various horror tropes and vague symbols of the uncanny are patched together in “Nocturne,” the debut feature by Zu Quirke. ‘Nocturne’ Review: On a Low Note 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “Overall I enjoyed the movie, but it hit a lot harder with some of the tropes that you wouldn’t think about as much if you’re with friends and family.” Some think watching holiday movies feels sad this year. Others started in March. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z He was turned into a nuanced and complex character, moving well away from the tropes of his beginnings. "Black Panther" and its science role models inspire more than just movie awards 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z It's profiting from alleged antisemitic tropes on its platform. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In a way, the Gordon character is actually following in a well-established “Batman” trope: the hero is the least interesting person on screen. 'Gotham' Recap: Take It Away, Balloonman 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z But I wanted to take those tropes and flip them on their head or really dig into them a little bit deeper and show them from a different perspective. Let’s talk about ‘Sex Education’ — and all the bad info we got as teens 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z If rock lyrics were not poetry, they were "writing," real writing, with "tropes and devices," "rhetorical strategies," "allusions and imagery." Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy 2013-05-16T22:40:10Z Patino has a good time playing with tropes, including Wilson's tactic of surrounding himself with female bodyguards like some boss out of a '90s Hong Kong action flick. A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z While Shang-Chi can high-fly kick and punch any opponent, is the “master of kung fu” powerful enough to make Hollywood finally bury tired story tropes and support projects by actors and filmmakers of Asian descent? Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Split into four episodes, DuVernay’s approach bluntly but successfully turns this story inside-out, borrowing the look of true-crime dramas while discarding the genre’s usual tropes. Review | ‘When They See Us’ is a powerful, overdue telling of the injustices endured by the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In “Grey House,” the prime trope is coy creepiness. Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z It's become a trope to have 'color' superheroes, : http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ColorCharacter ... it's time honored, as they say.. On ‘Black Lightning,’ a Superhero Takes On Race, Justice and the Real World 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s a YouTube channel that points out all the tropes and archaic things that happen in our industry, where everything is so austere and we make art. Tyler James Williams Lifts His Spirits With bell hooks and Tom Ford 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Of course, no TV liveblog is truly complete without a drinking game, especially for a show that heaves with as many tropes and quirks as The Great British Bake Off. Play Great British Bake Off bingo with the celebrity special 2013-01-21T12:12:58Z “The Red Line” also stumbles when it travels into Blue Lives Matter territory, leaning too heavily on Irish cop stereotypes and easy tropes of corruption. Review | Noah Wyle gives a must-see performance in CBS’s occasionally clunky ‘Red Line’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s a common trope in rock histories — a vague, hands-off treatment of lurid behavior — but it’s one worth challenging. How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The evil preacher is, of course, a dystopic trope as common as cannibalism. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The least we're entitled to expect is that writers will rework those old tropes in interesting ways. Christmas gifts 2012: the best science fiction 2012-11-28T14:05:04Z In every form of media you can think of — across all genres, but especially in horror — a common trope is for villainism and mental illness to go hand in hand. Stephen King's "Holly" reframes his hero's mental illness as an asset 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Another explanation lies in the easy tendency to lump the story in with the "tragic mulatto" trope, a crude designation defined by works like Fannie Hurst's "Imitation of Life." Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z His most popular songs are comfy midtempo ballads that deal in familiar tropes of Southern life, and it’s a formula that’s resulted in 11 No. 1 country singles. Your week in Seattle music: Heart, Blake Shelton and more 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Dollface,” meanwhile, is a fizzy bath of seen-it-already tropes playing out through characters that might as well have been generated by an online personality quiz. “Dollface” is the comfortable yet unremarkable grey sweatpants of friendship comedies 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z But the delight of this odd, humane show is how it rearranges old alien tropes to find a new way to say what “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” once did: We are not alone. Review: ‘People of Earth’ Returns for Affectingly Close Encounters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z But after watching the full season, Wright, who uses they/them pronouns, felt reassured: “There was no angry trope that got attached to me,” they said. ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Is a TV Rarity With Familiar Drama 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z His style clearly resonates, despite the fact that he can trade in some familiar tropes of moneymaking and misogyny. Mackned hosts mellow house party at Easy Street Records 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post even wrote a hilarious fake movie script that incorporates all the tropes of movies about geniuses. Blame Male Geniuses for Hollywood's Diversity Problem 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z We decided to give the album a few more listens and keep track of all the rap tropes that pop up. We count every rap cliche in Chris Brown and Tyga's 'Fan of a Fan' 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “Cannibalism was the great boogeyman trope of the Americas,” says Bleichmar. A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The two novelists are not unique among transgender writers in their magpie approach to literary tropes and genres. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Yes, Berry said, there were antisemitic tropes in Wagner’s music dramas, and antisemitic politics in his essays. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The first is that the internet encouraged us to treat information frivolously in the spirit expressed by the trope "information wants to be free". Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z It’s a role whose attempted subversion of tropes is just a hair away from acting out the trope itself. Scream Queens is a Missed Opportunity for Fox, and Ryan Murphy 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Chan said he was encouraged by efforts to rethink outdated tropes. ‘Princes Can Be Asian, Too’: A Dancer Breaks Barriers in Ballet 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Nothing against the original Luther, but going abroad to import that trope is like scouring the British Isles to find a Philly cheesesteak to adapt. Enough With the British Remakes, American TV! 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z The tropes of the genre are so predictable that a whole workplace sitcom, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” is layered atop them. The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z That seems like artists who are specifically going for a kind of trope in order to enter the market. | Sterling Ruby on Making It in L.A., His New Show in New York and the Power of the Art Market 2014-05-12T21:20:58Z That I think is okay, because he’s using his voice as a political tool — he is pretending to be upset in a way that mirrors a character trope of Southern womanhood.” Late-night shows still make fun of politicians’ looks. Are these jokes justified — or even funny? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z A radio broadcast that monsoon season has hit the region ahead of schedule plays like that horror trope where doomed teenagers hear of a serial killer’s escape from prison. ‘Thirteen Lives’ Review: Dramatizing the Near Impossible 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z May they all find a way to finish that doesn’t involve the already worn-out narrative trope of Zoom calls. Perspective | The hunt for fall TV brings a last gasp of new shows and — perhaps at long last — a shift in old habits 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z “You begin to see he’s using the tropes of the crime genre to tell a much larger and deeper story.” Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Even when you're tackling big, bold, brilliant women, it's astonishing how insidious the well-worn tropes can prove. Where are all the daring women's heroines? 2011-03-08T10:57:47Z Essentially, a series of interchangeable tropes and the writers that produced them eventually lead to the pulps and the studio system. Who Wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z West avoids predictable tropes in writing about Hannah’s disability, making her neither less than human nor an object of pity. Review | The spellbinding ‘Revival Season’ makes Monica West an author to watch 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z And the Lord-of-the-Flies battle that consumes the final half of the story reinscribes every worn-out trope about peaceful, constructive women and violent, destructive men. Stephen King and Owen King imagine a world where women aren’t woke 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z An eerie tour through an aging woman’s psyche as it loosens its grip on reality, the book reads as a noir, a riff on the tropes of detective fiction. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet instead of ushering in a new era for the rom-com, it simply solidified another set of tropes, just now in the indie world. 'What If's' Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Dowse try to elevate the rom-com 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z She’s reinvented a trope, giving such women a level of depth that turns a caricature into a complicated yet relatable person. Review | The sparks fly in Hulu’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ but it’s hard to sustain the heat 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Ciara, 18 from Manchester, says this was the storyline she “found most moving”, especially when RSE lessons on abortion tend to “play on tropes of regret”. 'It answered my weird questions': what do teens really think of Netflix's Sex Education? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Wise to the familiar 21st century tropes of technological skepticism and potential, it is hard not to label So a voice of his generation. Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z But the musical invests a familiar cultural trope — the angst of the lonely teenager — with freshness and vibrancy. Review: In ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ Teenage Angst Grows Complicated 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The old trope is that the young begin as naive leftists then drift rightwards with age. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “This is a challenging trope to embody. To me, it seems exhausting,” she says. 6 harmful media myths about sex and Latinas 2014-02-02T22:00:00Z In a nod to a common suspense-drama trope, “Fish & Cat” opens with an announcement that the story is based on reality. Iranian Film Festival at Freer Gallery 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z For much of the movie, Mr. Audiard instead seems content to play with genre tropes. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z That tired old trope of the “damsel in distress” never seems to go out of style, not even in the mysteries of an enlightened crime writer like Robert Crais. Damsels in Distress — or Causing It 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The coldhearted character warmed by the discovery of love is a trope that dates back to Victorian literature and beyond, and to her credit Ms. Cho does not allow George’s education to grow particularly sentimental. | 'The Language Archive': A Linguist at a Loss for Words Regarding Love 2010-10-17T22:14:00Z It’s a passably chilling bit of nonsense that builds on the past, the tropes of the genre, and relies on them for the odd jolt and the occasional ironic laugh. ‘Dark Skies’: the kids are not all right, so where’s the parental panic? 2013-02-22T19:19:36Z It's almost a trope of the drag community: people's partners being forced to become their dressers. "RuPaul's Drag Race" star Maddy Morphosis on her transformative looks: "I pull a lot from nostalgia" 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z The film has some classic Coen tropes: wide establishing shots of eerily empty spaces and interiors with receding perspective lines, deadpan faces, querulously bespectacled old ladies and the mandatory old guy in a semi-darkened office. Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis - first look review 2013-05-18T22:10:24Z The tropes of the genre were firmly entrenched: barely holding-it-together woman and emotionally stunted man, kept temporarily apart by whatever obstacle is necessary to ensure the film doesn't end in the first five minutes. 'What If's' Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Dowse try to elevate the rom-com 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Her “reveal” — still a trope in drag — was less a revelation than an admission that whoever Hungry is, and whatever the myth of Hungry means, she is not skin deep. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Two years later came "The Knowledge," which in some respects is more experimental — "Rough Ride" alternates between trilling opera singing and sinewy disco beats — and in other ways embodies classic Squeeze lyrical tropes. Squeeze is no nostalgia act – the UK band is thriving four decades later with its flawless songcraft 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Aziz Ansari gets to luxuriate in all his wooliest Manic Pixie Dream Girl tropes at the expense of the viewers, who all age three to four decades before the episode is over. Cut it! Why the trend for 'extra-long episodes' is a stretch too far 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Both belong to the category of "elevated genre," where horror, sci-fi and monster movie tropes are smartly used to tell a not-so usual story. "Monsters" sets standard for guerrilla filmmaking 2010-09-20T07:25:00Z A novel about people and relationships repeatedly raked over by biographers — not to mention endlessly mythologized by the players themselves — can’t help but replicate certain tropes. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Absurd but sincere, pop but abstruse, “Dickinson” pulses with tender attention to the tropes of teen soaps. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z We also talked about the long path "My Dark Vanessa" took to its final form, the maddening cultural trope of the "Lolita," and more. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Scott and Rapp find a way to knit distinct performances around characters initially presented as types indulging in secrets that fit into tropes about college life and a young woman's sexual exploration. HBO Max's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is less erotic and more awkward than its alluring title 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z This is what the mothers believe, because these are roles and tropes they recognize. Review: Like Life, ‘Catch as Catch Can’ Throws Curveballs 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z For this story, “fannish” essentially means adherence to a certain grammar of genre tropes — which it maintains in its revised form. Mystery Boxes and Budding Loves: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z And even old “Courtney Love is a MONSTER” trope has been trotted out again. Courtney Love, watch out: A Cobain-era beef comes roaring back — Mary Lou Lord “will not go down without a f**king fight” 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z In the space of 90 minutes, Brooker has popularised a new form of storytelling, then identified its tropes and dismantled them one by one. Black Mirror's Bandersnatch: Charlie Brooker's meta masterpiece 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Since then, Robinson has experimented liberally with sci-fi tropes, writing everything from an alternate history of China to an epic about deep space exploration to a speculative historical novel set in the Ice Age. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Eurydice, the beloved of Orpheus, is “less a lover than a trope of literature.” Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Both movies took typical teen tropes and went much deeper with them than anyone had seen before. 'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z “I just applied those same tropes to her, and all these incredible radical moments suddenly appear to an audience.” Wonder Woman Breaks Through 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Here, Carlos popularised or even invented the aircraft hijack as the essential trope of 1970s terrorism: the theatrical gesture that doubles up as bargaining chip and getaway transportation. Carlos: Terrorist? Revolutionary? Or cynic? 2010-10-21T21:00:00Z It took a story that had been repetitive—both repeating itself and resonating, uninterestingly, with age-old tropes—and spun it forward, granting a moment of power to a new sort of heroine. Review: 'Battle of the Bastards' Is One of Game of Thrones' Best Episodes Ever 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z “I guess that’s what makes an album unified, these little musical and lyrical tropes.” Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z It had an appalling reliance on the “magical negro” trope: black characters who aid white characters’ self-discovery. When good TV goes bad: how Nashville turned country music into a trashy panto 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But although “Tragedy Girls” is up-to-date on tweets and technology, its high school dynamics conform to familiar tropes. Review: In ‘Tragedy Girls,’ Teenagers Terrorize (and Tweet) 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, we fetishized each other based on our differences, perceiving the other through the lens of stereotypical Black tropes. When a Summer Hookup Lasts 12 Years, It’s Time to Reassess 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Reed’s attorney and his brother, Rodrick Reed, believe race played a role in the case, pointing out that an all-white jury convicted Reed and that the case touched on “old tropes” about interracial relationships. Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate’s execution 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s heavy on intrigue, politics and court machinations and utilizes the tried-and-true science fiction trope of transplanted memories. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z In one of Bazzini’s studies, subjects watched movies with different levels of the “beauty is good” trope and then rated job applicants. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Heavy stuff, especially for a picture book, but the framing of the tale turns the cruel trope that other languages sound like “gibberish” to English speakers on its head. Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z It became a pop culture trope so gradually that, by the time it ended up dominating our favourite TV shows, it seemed completely obvious that it should. From Westworld to Homeland: pop culture's obsession with gaslighting 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z It tests our familiarity with horror tropes while messing with the variegated verities of Black identity. ‘The Blackening’ Review: Race Against a Killer 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, his predominantly white fan base and rock press often stereotyped him and fed into various racist tropes. 50 years after death, Jimi Hendrix continues shaping Seattle music, as same racial inequities persist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Lisa went to Baltimore, Georgia, where she found people who actually ran a business selling clay to people who wanted to eat clay, which tapped into a lot of strange old Southern tropes. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The trope, of course, is “A Star Is Born.” “Mockingjay” Is a Paean to Movie Producers 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s human nature to fuss over a gray hair or a frown line, and little comfort when a well-meaning friend repeats the trope, “Wrinkles add character.” Essay: Women’s reward for being awesome: wrinkle cream. Seriously? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Nothing can detract from real achievements, yet this memoir is disconcertingly shaped by the tropes of popular fiction and confessionalism. Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis ? review 2011-07-29T21:57:02Z Pulling grimaces, falling backwards into the security staff, he simultaneously parodies the trope of the "rock guitar hero" while providing a textbook example of it in action – antithesis and apotheosis in one. Prince: Why, five years after his death, the Purple One still reigns 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The book fuses fantasy and even Joycean tropes to create an entertaining, passionate story. New in Paperback: ‘Jerusalem,’ ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “Fat Ham” uses that to its advantage, challenging our expectations of, say, Tedra, who isn’t shy about defending herself against the trope of the weak, unfaithful wife and irresponsible mother. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black ‘Hamlet’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z I am detecting a theme in Mr. Robot besides what is on the surface a show about a more common trope of millennial loneliness in a 21st century personal computer world. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z But suffice it to say that it reads like a high-brow flame war, with talk of "conceptual blackface," "white male privilege," postmodern "tropes" and "Friedian affect of theatricality." Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Outside of the familiar tropes and stock roles, what other conversations could we have about pain? "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z He called it a “tired trope” that had nothing to do with the people and events of today. Fox News defense reporter challenges war comments on air 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Amnesia, a familiar trope in romance, becomes epic in Peterson’s hands, as befits the fantasy setting. Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Critics have long dinged the trope for soft-pedaling the history of race relations and for using Black people as props in stories essentially designed to make white people feel better about themselves. Is "Dune" a white savior movie? Denis Villeneuve responds 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z I’d always figured the “foot pop” for a romantic trope, a clichéd way to signal female desire with little to no bearing on reality. The science of swooning: We don’t really know why some kisses lead to back kicks, toe curls and weak knees 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z He plays a jazz club named Reggie who leaps into every scary Black man trope with each passing decade to prove a point about the utter backwardness of Danny DeVito's Frank. From "The Wire" to "John Wick," we trusted Lance Reddick as a voice of authority, empathy and comedy 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Deal’s band chops up these tropes and duct tapes them into something surprisingly sturdy. The weirdest album to ever go platinum 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z It is an old trope, a hollow phrase, often a poetic cliche. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z It's one of those TV and film tropes that once you notice it, it's hard to unsee: the traumatic awakening of a character's superpowers. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z He didn’t pay attention to the fact that his dismissive old-women tropes were no longer acceptable, that they would reflect badly on himself and would harm his colleagues. Perspective | Don Lemon returned with an apology in a can 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The idea of the Kennedy years as Camelot became an enduring trope and, for some, a maddening lie. ‘Jackie’: Under the Widow’s Weeds, a Myth Marketer 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z There's so many fun tropes, like you just listed, and there's a lot of different references and things in there. "I get so emotional": Anna Cathcart on "XO, Kitty" resonating worldwide and with the LGBTQ community 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Each novel, in its own arresting manner, works a change on classic tropes. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z With tropes like that, you might see the Tarantino oeuvre as a footnote to Corbucci’s. ’68 Rides Again: The Return of Sergio Corbucci 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The real work, he said, lay in truly letting go of the “tropes of leading-man-isms.” Ben Affleck Stars in David Fincher's ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The disobedient mother is a horror trope because, as an idealized figure, she has so far to fall, and so many means by which to do so. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z To understand why this trope exists – and why it may be on its last legs – let’s scoot back to the middle ages and the earliest perceptions of women and their cats. Claws out! Why pop culture clings to the crazy cat lady 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In these films, queer people are deployed as villains, problematic tropes or narrative props that enable heterosexual characters to go on a journey of self-discovery. “Moonlight” is the first LGBT movie to win best picture. Here’s why it matters 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Robinson avoids the common tropes in novels about space travel — warp drives, etc. — and instead explores her characters’ internal experiences. A new ‘Dr. Who’ and other best sci-fi and fantasy for July 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The “good cop” trope is a standard of both police procedurals and real-life police tactics, and now crowdsourced video of the protests has given cops a new stage for performing the role. The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s a searing portrait of the psychic toll of racism: Even as slurs and insulting tropes leave him bloody and exposed, the figure wears a “white” expression to get along. How to Look at a Basquiat 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Janus-faced and ambivalent to tropes, Daphne’s narration is riddled with omissions and reversals that intensify the mystery of the broken window. The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z I don’t mean that anyone who criticized the Girls episode is a hypocrite, because the fat-guy-hot-wife trope is pretty routinely mocked by now. Is She Really Going Out With Him? 2013-02-12T19:33:59Z The world of noir is well mapped, and we return to its tropes for the comforting knowledge that the little guy will somehow use his wits to beat the long odds against the Man. A Roaring, Full-Throttle Thriller, Crackling With Tension and Charm 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Lyne ultimately reshot the film’s last scenes, and what shows up in the final film borrows plenty from horror tropes, casting Alex as the kind of monster who just doesn’t die. "Fatal Attraction" remake: Glenn Close is right to want the story told from female perspective 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Rather than poke fun at the tropes of the fairytale, it has fun with them. The Princess Bride: No 23 2010-10-21T10:32:00Z We wanted to try and understand what it might have been like to feel Hitchcock afresh, for the audience not to know the tropes. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino?s Film Partnership 2010-06-12T03:44:00Z Recorded in two weeks, the mixtape, called “Me, My Brother & A Mic,” is a satirical look at a number of hip-hop tropes. 'Dear White People's' Tyler James Williams puts out mixtape -- and it's good 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And all the poses that Mr. Haggard helped innovate became familiar tropes, now worn smooth by the passage of time and by continuous refinement by generations of singers that followed him. Merle Haggard and ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ the Hit That Helped and Hurt Him 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “Less from ‘will she or won’t she marry’ — ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and Mrs. Bennet, that trope — to really making Lata feel like the making of India.” ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Rather than rehash the familiar tropes of extraterrestrial arrival/invasion/occupation, "Falling Skies" starts its story six months after the creatures have arrived. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z It’s a sturdy, versatile trope, no less appealing for being predictable, and with the right balance of flirty antagonism and latent sexual tension, the payoff is certainly satisfying. ‘Moonshot’ Review: Found in Space 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Fortunately, a diverse group of authors are using the tentacle trope in new and interesting ways. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Perez’s analysis of the films is largely focussed not on classical tropes of rhetoric featured in Ford’s directorial method but on the deployment of rhetorical figures, within the context of the film, by Ford’s characters. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z And there were the classic “Star Trek” tropes, like Jean-Luc nonsensically going to the Borg cube, when he was likely the least physically capable of the old crew in fighting off the Borg. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Finale Recap: Saying Farewell 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Alternating lacquered bouffant updos reminiscent of the 1960s with dyed Marine crew cuts, Mr. Palau, in concert with Mr. Jacobs, playfully undercut the tropes of masculine and feminine presentation. For Capitalism, Every Social Leap Forward Is a Marketing Opportunity 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The trope finds its way into comedy, where political cartoons exaggerate a nose, chin or mouth to imply someone is silly or sinister. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The gestures and affectations aren’t just acts of glorified mimicry, however; they are a statement on the Venn diagram of gay male tropes and a particular brand of performance by women. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Warren’s sense of humor carries the book, skewering familiar manga tropes without sacrificing character development. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Superhero Story With Humor 2012-06-15T21:08:17Z But last fall, she started fretting about the end of civilization — specifically, whether publishers were growing tired of the dystopian trope. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He decided to set “Tenor Overboard” in the 1940s and to cram it with what he called “the great tropes of comic opera.” Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z “Let’s get beyond these tragic stories, these old tropes, where someone with a disability is only in a story if it’s centered around their disability,” LeBrecht said. In ‘Luca,’ a Character’s Disability Doesn’t Define Him 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z For decades, Sherman insisted the characters she embodies in her photographs had nothing to do with her, that they were simply amplifications of female media tropes. Cindy Sherman reveals her latest body of work — and it's personal 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Doshi frequently employs Dante's trope of selva oscura, the dark wood, to represent the love relationship, so there is a metaphorical parallel to these paired ideas. Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z This is also known as the "humour as survival mechanism" trope and reached its nadir with the Two Julies in Bad Girls. Women's TV prison dramas: 10 vital ingredients 2013-07-10T12:04:00Z These are such familiar cultural tropes that we may dismiss the word trope altogether. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z His 2005 essay in the British literary journal Granta, “How to Write About Africa,” eviscerated timeworn Western tropes about Africa and African writing. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Kelly said the Blackground women represent “the trope of the three women 30 feet from stardom on the outskirts of every story.” Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z And yet “The Baptism” never feels grim, because in the text and video, Mr. Rux and Ms. Weems subvert these expectations of death and tropes of the dying Black body. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Love dismantles the very tropes it sets up. From Love to Girls – what TV's most toxic couples can teach us 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z This is especially so because it is a remake, which come with their own sets of overused tropes. "Pet Sematary" stinks like a rotting corpse: Stay away and watch the original 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z We talk about our favorite sci-fi tropes, and we pull the panels off of them and see where the batteries are. Rick and Morty creators: 'We're pulling apart the tropes of sci-fi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Last night on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” the Sorkin parody machine reached its self-referential apex, not just parodying these familiar tropes but also naming the tropes as they parodied them. The art of the Aaron Sorkin parody: A brief history of our obsession with spoofing Hollywood’s most spoof-able writer 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z There is a femme fatale, and some hard-boiled dialogue, but the film doesn’t traffic too much in noir tropes. Nicole Kidman is gunning for an Oscar in "Destroyer" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Drawing the tropes of popular culture into serious literary fiction was a particular feature of the American literary scene, Kelly said. Zombie invasion 2012-08-13T16:21:23Z There is no doubt that Americans have little reason for optimism these days, and cultural tropes – like the zombie – are born of lost confidence and waning hope. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z It encouraged fantasy — one of the main tropes of advertising campaigns. Last Chance: ?Cars, Culture, and the City? at Museum of the City of New York 2010-07-19T22:03:00Z Their images are carefully posed to look casual, a defining trope of contemporary photography. Self-portraits 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z But from the very first scene it is obvious that To the Bone leans on some wearily outdated tropes. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z I try not to think in tropes at all. Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Well, one thing, I've really found that she was not fearless, as this little trope of the adrenalin junkie, fearless war correspondent. Rosamund Pike: War correspondent Marie Colvin “was not fearless” 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Do these tropes come to you naturally, or are they something you will have to learn? "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" author Saladin Ahmed: "Politics are central to the story for me" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z This is a harmful trope, and in the last few years, screenwriters have finally started to realize women have other traumas. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Everything remained safely within the confines of established tropes, as though the novelty of having English leads would be enough in itself to give new life to an old joke. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z But he presents this trope with loving humor, in parody that doesn’t quite obscure the earnestness of the message. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z "Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness." Like it or not, it's comedy's turn to contend with its role in perpetuating systemic racism 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z A larger chorus would have been nice for this large hall, as would a more developed ballet for Adams' trope on the kitschy "Red Detachment of Women." San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s the trope of all tropes to say that a writer is “the writer for our time.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Some writers are using science fiction and fantasy tropes to describe grim current political realities. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Leslie Jamison has written brilliantly about this trope and its perilous balance of accuracy and fantasy. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The show has completely rewritten this story to conform to some worn old tropes from westerns, and it doesn't work. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z How much of that idea of subverting the trope of the Final Girl play into her development? Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z We've seen the white savior trope, in which a white hero swoops in to save people of color from their misfortunes. Matt Damon and George Takei, check out "White Savior," a samurai satire challenging beloved movies 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Chatting to an imaginary producer is a well-worn TV trope. Once Chris Moyles spoke to millions on the radio. Now he’s struggling for an audience on his own YouTube channel 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But nestled into the film’s bounty of escapist tropes lie some kernels of deeper wisdom. Perspective | Summer movies were smarter than ever, with ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and ‘BlacKkKlansman’ leading the way 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The action flick is filled with classic heist movie tropes: a planning montage, a speed bump that forces the crew to change their plans and a cop hot on their heels. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z I also want to bring a type of meta perspective and awareness to the logic of the horror film and slasher tropes. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The novel engages the tropes of the comedy of manners, a genre of societal critique that dates back to classical Greece and locks its gaze on the affectations and hypocrisy of the upper classes. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He rejects the self-pity trope, insisting, “I enjoy being an outsider. It’s also a joyful thing.” The Dancer Shamel Pitts on Coming Home 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s a TV trope — even in “The Last O.G.” — that service industry work is a last resort. Two new shows skewer trendy food culture — through the eyes of a black ex-con and a young white server 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z “Extraterrestrial” plays with the tropes of the alien invasion movie. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Thirty-six most-important elections later, in 2012, an Atlantic writer requested the trope be retired because “pundits and political observers invoke the cliche so reflexively and so often that it no longer has any meaning.” Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z There’s a longing for connection in the familiar musical tropes as well as the lyrics, a guileless attempt at kinship. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z “There’s a French forthrightness about showcasing the female body and the trope of the female bath,” said Susan Casteras, a professor of art history at the University of Washington in Seattle. ‘La Toilette’: Art Show Explores Women’s Bathing Rituals Through History 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z But then, tropes that were acceptable when it began in 1989 came to feel almost too uncomfortable to be broadcast later on. A Coming-Out on 'The Simpsons' Shows How Toothless the Show Is 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The artwork does a masterly job of helping to flip that trope. Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In the tradition-bound world of classical music, new music is working hard to carve out its own ensembles and traditions and tropes. Review | Bach Unwound: Cellist offers another new look at solo suites 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Following a standard trope, Vanderbilt dedicates a chapter or so to each pursuit, using his personal narrative, rich in obligatory self-deprecation and infectious excitement, to introduce relevant scientific studies. The Joys of Approaching Life as an Amateur 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z If big-screen gender tropes are indeed due for a makeover, Gone Girl is doing its bit. Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Boastful tropes about stacking cash and bedding women sound even more distasteful once the balance is large enough to never have to work again. 50 Cent makes another horrible pitch with 'Animal Ambition' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z This is the standard trope of the dying husk of genius. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z “It is a trope as old as literature that any scientific advance is punished by the gods,” Johnson declared, as his U.K. delegation watched with mystified smiles. At Climate Week NYC, searching for world-saving answers inside a giant carbon footprint 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z This adds to the novel’s sense of spooky detachment, yet I’ve had my fill of amnesia as a trope in fiction and in the movies. Daniel Galera’s ‘Blood-Drenched Beard’ 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z You could say that it's easy to laugh at the tropes of SF, but for a comedy writer that way lies the black hole of failure. Douglas Adams is still the king of comic science fiction 2013-03-11T12:55:34Z The Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen's "Triptych" for three cellos plays with Postmodern tropes sounds old and new at the same time, moody and exuberant also at the same time. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The production design borrows from HR Giger’s famed techno-corridors, and her engagement with the tropes of sci-fi can give the film the feel of a popcorn blockbuster from a parallel dimension. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 8 – High Life 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z In most of the images, Rasmussen is holding a mirror, a visual trope borrowed from artist Hans Breder. How many legs in this photo? The strange, surreal photography of Heather Rasmussen 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The idea of a white man being taken in by foreigners, learning their ways and emerging as their champion “seemed new in 1973, but in 2017 it’s a storytelling trope that needs updating,” he said. ‘Iron Fist’ Actor, at Center of Whitewashing Debate, Asks Fans to Wait and See 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z There is the child heroine herself – an omnivorous reader who devours Dickens and Balzac in the local library – and the familiar trope of the missed education. Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z That story’s plot neatly reworks the classic trope of murder in a house surrounded by freshly fallen snow. Review | Locked-room masterpieces from Japan are the perfect escape for summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The quartet worked their way through several familiar tropes of improvised comedy in confident fashion and managed to keep the advertised product at the forefront of the action throughout. The risky business of using a live broadcast to plug a product 2013-06-19T10:51:51Z And the music grows repetitive when it leans too heavily on sing-songy sea chanty tropes. ‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’: a modern expedition to romance 2014-04-21T23:56:15Z This opens up a range of topics independent of more rigid and conventional tropes. Blog jam: AudioFemme 2013-04-03T17:22:00Z This was the American premiere of “Nine Rivers,” an audacious cycle of nine pieces interlinked by what Mr. Dillon calls musical tropes, lasting about three and a half hours. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z “When you think of animation and female leads, you always go to the fairy tale tropes,” Hosoda said through a translator. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Maybe if I hadn’t been bombarded with the trope of the mournful mother again and again it would have made an emotional impact, but the repetition finally burned me out. When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Denial of his extraordinary genetic luck for the sake of his self-respect is a common trope with poor Luke. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z As this "Cymbeline" invites us to enjoy its familiar tropes, Woronicz also emphasizes its main link to "The Tempest" and other autumnal Shakespeare works: a profound sense of forgiveness. Shakespeare's complicated 'Cymbeline' is sweetly streamlined at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2011-01-12T21:17:04Z Godard took a familiar trope of American B-movies – the bad boy and the good girl – and recast them for a new world and a new era. “A Hard Day’s Night”: The rock musical that made history 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Throughout the series, "The Nanny" displays self-awareness by playing with this trope. What our love for widower rom-coms says about our flawed search for love 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s known by some as the Bury Your Gays trope; in a 2013 Guardian piece, James Rawson referred to it as the Sudden Gay Death Syndrome in discussion over the ending of A Single Man. LGBT cinema still needs more happy endings | Benjamin Lee 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In its first season it took the unreliable narrator trope and flipped it; made other characterisations of mental health look hackneyed and used some pretty weird camera angles to great effect. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z While of course avoiding any/all sexist tropes. YouTubers Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart smash superhero stereotypes 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z But “Son of the White Mare” isn’t just old hat; the simultaneously geometric and fluid animation renders each mythic trope totally new. ‘Son of the White Mare’ Review: Vibrant Myths From Hungary 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The website open before me now conforms to all of these tropes, but differs from all its seething peers in one key respect. Pop stars and their conspiracy theories 2011-07-21T20:48:00Z Was he real, or just a trope pumped up by Hillary Clinton backers to malign their opponent? Online agitator. Leftist know-it-all. Is the Bernie Bro back? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z While the levels of intrigue and duplicity on “The Americans” and the front page are startling and engrossing, both feature an old trope: Russians as villains. The top 17 most badass and bizarre Russian villains in pop culture 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The play makes a martyr of its gay Black elder and offers him the deliverance of death, as if “burying the gays” isn’t still a prominent — and problematic — trope in entertainment and culture today. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z You may have heard of the Black Best Friend trope before. Remember her? Why your favorite Black female characters are being "summarily dismissed" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z But heroic fatalism and unwilling villainy remain enduring cinematic tropes, including in gangster movies, even if it means holding convention over complexity. Review: In ‘Baby Driver,’ It’s Kiss Kiss, Zoom Zoom 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z As a result, he said, “we are telling a different kind of story this year, one that doesn’t have that easy thriller trope baked into its D.N.A.” It’s Home Sweet ‘Homeland’ for Season 6 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z In creating the film, his aim was to counter two tropes of traditional westerns: people of color shown as less than human; and women appearing subservient and less than men. Zazie Beetz and Regina King on Their Big Battle in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z This combination of small-town heroine and cosmopolitan hero is a romance trope that speaks to readers. Nacho Figueras to help market a new line of polo romance novels 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z He said the audience laughed because the transgression and apology subverted the traditional trope of the serious, just-the-facts detective. In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us) 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z I just saw “Deadpool,” which — besides making me fall in love all over again with the Merc with the Mouth — reminds me that the cancer trope is still going strong in Hollywood. “Deadpool” gets cancer right: Debunking the “hero” survivor myth, one smart-aleck joke at a time 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Drenched in ambiguity and wit, it is a strangely comedic drama that casually plays with movie tropes. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-05-25T05:00:11Z The game falters in following too many of the tropes of a previous installment, Civilization V, and in not being exotic enough. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Kirkman’s series borrows themes and tropes wholesale from both Marvel and DC. Can Seth Rogen's Invincible break Marvel and DC's superhero stranglehold? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In a previous interview you've done, you made really interesting points about how this movie differs from the "white savior" trope. Director of Netflix’s “Skater Girl" on making a film set in India that avoids white savior tropes 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Black man who comes from a cultural background where mental illness isn’t recognised and whose symptoms might be put down to the racist trope of aggression in people of colour. 'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z I realized a lot of what I was channeling was related to video games tropes. Porter Robinson Releases ‘Worlds,’ His First Album 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The fact that those freed prisoners all look like supermodels dressed in lingerie is a standard WIP trope. Mad Max: Fury Road is less radical than its B-movie influences 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “It captures the themes and tropes that define his career.” Julian Schnabel Moves to Pace Gallery From Gagosian 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Sure, there’s a spaghetti trope mishap and some of the red herrings smell fishy, but even these stumbles contain illuminating insight into Serwa’s character. Scary Novels From Nick Lake, Kenneth Oppel and Roseanne A. Brown 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z There are biting parodies of troubling Black tropes in entertainment, like the supplicant servant figures in “Driving Miss Daisy” and “The Help.” In ‘What to Send Up,’ I See You, Black American Theater 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The choice between compliance and resistance, assimilation and separatism, loyalty and defiance–all of those familiar tropes play out onstage, with an almost all Asian-American main cast telling the story from a Japanese-American perspective. This is why Donald Trump is winning: Paranoia brings out the worst in us — and minorities always suffer 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z All the tropes of the digital culture writ large, then. Why you are the future of photography 2011-07-13T17:25:51Z Attempting to define the "latent motifs" of manic depression, he seeks increasingly garbled explanations in tropes of language and symbolism. Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review 2013-05-06T07:00:01Z At first, it felt like “The Big Bang Theory” would make most of its hay from the old trope that a young American man with a high IQ and gaming habit repels most women. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z There’s this tired but persistent old trope about artists: that they thrive in isolation, that somehow they exist exempt from society, or immune to it. Perspective | Artists are struggling to find inspiration in isolation 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Mann builds his films upon myths that he doesn’t dare to reveal as such; his sense of reality overrides his films’ unconsidered dependence upon long-familiar and long-revised cinematic codes and tropes. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z “Three Girls from Bronzeville,” Dawn Turner’s first work of nonfiction, uses the trope of little Black girls inventing and reinventing themselves at certain points in history to help define the era and the country. Review | ‘Three Girls from Bronzeville’ is a story about growing up on Chicago’s South Side — and so much more 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z If some women snap under the pressure, it is hardly surprising, but the trope of bridezilla says more about how we view “women’s work”. How ‘bridezilla’ became this summer’s biggest sexist slur 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But the abandoned-Earth trope offers a variant of the genre in the sheer magnitude of the setup. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z Instead, it presents a physical representation of a racist trope that dates back to the first days of colonialism and slavery. There's nothing funny about putting racism on stage 2011-02-21T17:42:14Z It was a trope beloved by Fidel Castro, who spent five decades honing the role of the righteous David defying the imperialist American Goliath. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He hopes to become an advocate for McGee — to be the white savior, perhaps not realizing in America how played out that literary trope is. 'God'll Cut You Down' misses the mark in Southern murder case 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Expect many of the same tropes employed in previous Star Wars films. How 'Rogue One' Fits Into the Star Wars Timeline 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z I'm interested in this trope of the human beings in the story essentially being the villains, which is something that "District 9," another successful science-fiction film, did recently. 2009-12-17T01:16:00Z In typical Tarantino fashion, the line between evoking the tropes and ideals of pop-cultural pastimes for the sake of “authenticity” and reinforcing those tropes and ideals is heavily blurred. Sharon Tate Is a Woman in a Tarantino Movie. It’s Complicated. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Both Flesh and Notby David Foster Wallace The damaged-infant trope is perfect because it captures the mix of repulsion and love the fiction writer feels for something he's working on. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z So profoundly steeped are we in American cop show culture, we're a lot harder to surprise: we know the slang, the tropes and the attitudes. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z After that, the Moroccan trope kind of trails off. California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The problems arise when the film revs its allegorical engine and Phoenix tries to assemble a character from the tics and tropes he has been given. ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Bobby Moynihan We may not miss “Entourage,” but we do miss College Humor’s “Every Week on Entourage” series, starring Moynihan as Turtle, which parodies the show and its tediously repetitive plot tropes. “Three McConaugheys and a Baby” and more brilliant early sketches and side gigs by the current “SNL” cast 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Start with the wonderfully odd, wonderfully creepy “Sleeping Car Porters,” an inventive take on genre tropes in which Billy the Kid and the Zodiac Killer somehow run into each other. Hungry for Some Unclassifiable Theater? Dinner is Served 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z We also see that handing off a woman between two moving vehicles is now a trope in the franchise. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Their mild bickering and bland bantering wink at rom-com tropes without revising or deepening them; their romance is utterly devoid of substance and surprise. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” Should Have Been the “Godfather: Part II” of Superhero Movies 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Rounding out all of his old tropes in one go gives this album even more of its conclusive tone; his lyrical voice is unified and singular. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z Films where characters try to “pass” as gay often mine comic, romantic, or dramatic tropes to examine issues of sexual identity. “Guys don’t iron other guys’ underwear”: When characters in movies pretend to be gay 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The fearful expectant mother is a familiar horror movie trope – and many of them have good reason for concern. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z “The Curse,” the new show on Showtime from Nathan Fielder that continues his philosophical and moral experimentation with the tropes of reality television. Popcast (Deluxe): What Is Going on With the Grammy Nominations? 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The trope can take many forms, whether set at an actual alumni gathering, as in Mary Higgins Clark’s “Nighttime Is My Time”; or applied more loosely, as in Hanya Yanagihara’s ensemble bildungsroman “A Little Life.” ‘Ohio’ as the Locus of 21st-Century Rust Belt Despair 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, I don't think too much, either in terms of trying to follow a trope or avoiding one. Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z By now the dystopian future is a familiar trope: It seems every other Hollywood movie warns of a savage world overrun by technology. Micah Ganske puts feeling into his dystopian vision at 101/Exhibit 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s a credit to the series that its way of reimagining how to tell a crime story—mostly—manages to outweigh a premise unimaginatively programmed with familiar tropes around gender. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z One of the tropes in news stories about adult cinemas is that the audience consists of leering perverts in raincoats. The last (porn) picture shows: Once dotted with dozens of adults cinemas, L.A. now only has two 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z When Jones finally emerges, she plays the hyper-sexualized, temperamental, physically imposing, and money-hungry black woman depicted in so many racial tropes. “Saturday Night Live” spoof of the new Annie will raise some eyebrows 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Exposing Katie’s trusted Christian pastor as a licentious hypocrite seems an overly familiar trope that is rudely dismissive of an entire religion. Gifted performer, but 'All American Girl' has simplistic worldview 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Larys, who walks with a limp because of a clubfoot, falls into this trope, his compensating strength being a gift for collecting court secrets. ‘House of the Dragon’: Is Larys Strong the New Littlefinger? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Cheeky details like these recall the witty and absurdist tropes of the Victorian era, said Ms. Lock. It Was a Dark and Stormy Style 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The truth is, there's two or three tropes that they all hit. "I've done my share of bombing": Marc Maron talks about navigating failure, grief and embarrassment 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z This trope is exemplified in myriad cultural texts, including "The Big Bang Theory," "Entourage," "Family Guy," "Robot Chicken," "South Park" and "SpongeBob SquarePants." From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z There's also a lot of evidence in the film of him using racist tropes to promote himself and disparage other Black athletes. Ken Burns on his latest, "Muhammad Ali": "What's so interesting is what an avatar of love he was" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z How do you respond to criticism of this trope? Tyler Perry on 'The Passion,' the Election, and the Oscars Controversy 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z She pays homage to, and undercuts, the tropes of documentary realism – apart from the Thatcher portraits, her book is all about a profound sense of place and the ghosts that linger there. How Margaret Thatcher's HQ turned into Chateau Despair 2013-02-28T17:24:00Z Mr. Angelopoulos recycled the lost-child trope to much lesser effect in “Eternity and a Day,” which won the top prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, screening July 24 at 3 p.m. Movie Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In this decade, we see the classic cartoon tropes get a second wind as a new generation breaks into the magazine. The New Yorker’s Ninetieth: Cartoons from 1975 to 1985 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z For now, it’s clear that we’ve gotten the cinematic trope this era deserves, one that encapsulates aspirations and ambivalence in maddeningly equal measure. From transgressive to trope: ‘Unlikable’ women suddenly dominate films 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Within the horror and thriller genres, a sex scene is usually a pretty good indicator that someone is about to die, so much so that it's become a trope. Hide your muscular calves! On "Yellowjackets," sex is violence 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The books didn’t sell especially well, and after a while, Ms. Hawkins began to tire of frothy romantic tropes. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Compared with the reality show trope of hapless youth struggling with modest setbacks, it's a refreshing look at how well twentysomethings muck in when livelihoods depend on it. TV highlights 11/01/2013 2013-01-11T13:08:15Z Crisscrossing folklore with the classic movie trope of a man-child, Sato crafts a thoughtful meditation on alienation and masculinity, and the delusions of male saviors. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z A group of lawyers and scholars, he writes, is increasingly rejecting the “free speech” trope. Motherlode Blog: Marketing Obesity to Children 2012-03-28T20:26:24Z It turns out that adults and children alike want to see tropes more complicated than the pretty princess and the evil stepmother, even in fantasy films. These 8 Actresses Proved Women Can Carry A Summer Blockbuster 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z We realized that as we went along that we should take advantage of every comic book trope that we could think of, to help the viewer. ‘The Blacklist’ Draws Up a Novel End to Its Season 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Salon spoke with Ascher about his own experience with sleep paralysis, horror film tropes and why some people start experiencing sleep paralysis right after learning about the phenomenon. “My body was in a net that was being tightened”: Director Rodney Ascher on the frightening phenomenon of sleep paralysis 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z There was a casual harmony between the curated, subculture clothing and book club tropes like a carton of Trader Joe’s Dunkers. Death Sentences book club reaches readers via Instagram and a streetwear store 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z A mother living through her teenage daughter is an old and tired trope. Ask Amy: Inmate worries about romance with distant cousin The "dude looks like a lady" trope remains persistent, fear-based comic fodder – see also "The Hangover 2." The fashion model the media can't handle 2011-05-31T16:12:00Z In every review, I'm going to look at the tropes and common stylistic touches that appear in King's novels. Rereading Stephen King: week one – Carrie 2012-05-24T12:02:53Z It’s a trope that is woven throughout both the modern fashion narrative and the modern film narrative, which may be why Mr. Murphy was so attracted to the idea. Will We All Want to Be Wearing Halston Soon? 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z “Narrative arcs and character tropes are just rules to break,” Gray told the New Yorker in an interview. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z More recently, a simp-related video trope driven by female creators has emerged. A Short History of ‘Simp’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Researchers refer to this guilt-inducing trope of perfectionism as the motherhood myth or the goddess myth, though I believe it applies to fathers as well. Perspective | Parental guilt is a cultural epidemic. It’s time to let go of who we ‘should’ be. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Soon the pair are infiltrating a Serbian smuggling ring, hurling themselves into explosive action scenes and riffing gleefully on buddy-cop comedy tropes. Ice Cube and Kevin Hart: ‘Hollywood is realising that black people go to movies’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Sex, of course, is not a parasitic transaction by default, and superannuated tropes about women needing to be coerced, via nefarious forces, into a kind of stunted submission are neither useful nor true. Reconsidering the Rock Groupie 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Other people felt a concept album should possess a common thread between lyrics, while musical connections — whether in the form of variations on melodies or chords, or related tropes and patterns — are salient characteristics. “Sgt. Pepper’s” at 50: was it a concept album or an identity crisis? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The interplay of old and Modern tropes comes off as academic gamesmanship. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z Angela Carter, who wrote the screenplay for Neil Jordan's film, deliberately overturns fairytale tropes; rather than being victimised, her young female protagonist seeks liberation in the surrounding woods. Clip joint: films within films 2010-05-05T12:12:00Z He either rejects the tropes of rap entirely or subverts them playfully. Jimothy’s Flex Looks a Little Different 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Sweet Tooth takes the familiar tropes of the Cold War thriller – secrecy, betrayal, deception – to examine the nature of writing and the relationship between author and reader. Summer events at Kings Place 2013-06-24T10:46:53Z The best way to sell people on a romance, Rizer said, is to sell its tropes. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z "Nice guys" aren't the same beast as incels, but the fictional trope of the "nice guy" similarly extends from a culture of deep male entitlement. “Sex/Life” and the exhausting, male entitlement of the “nice guy” trope 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z And then there’s the final, startling trope: To demonstrate the seriousness of the enterprise, he is giving away his 2,000-volume library, one book at a time. Playwright Clears His Stage and Bookcases 2010-12-09T23:25:00Z The setup again is a Dagwood sandwich of horror tropes, but with different ingredients: naughty nuns, vivisection, exorcism and, I kid you not, aliens. TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Asylum 2012-10-17T12:00:24Z My gift is that I don’t know the tropes,’” Spalding said. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The marriage of convenience is a well-worn, well-loved trope in historical romance. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Instead he’s relegated to the Angry Black Sergeant role seen enough times on TV for it to be a trope. Smart Watch: Why you should watch Jennifer Garner play a total jerk in “Camping” 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Let’s hope she learns from Unser and finds a way to play both ends against the middle, like he did with Clay, rather than falling into one of this show’s worst tropes. 'Sons of Anarchy: Playing With Monsters' recap: It's a black day 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In literary culture, you see writers using science-fiction and fantasy tropes. ArtsBeat: Q. & A. With ?Game of Thrones? Author 2011-04-01T12:30:50Z If he can only “unlock” some relationship tropes, he says, people might become more at ease with the subject, with themselves, with their expectations – and evolve a more constructive emotional style. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z And I think maybe what I like to do is try to find a way to subvert the trope. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s almost a compendium of familiar Tyler tropes and situations. Attention Please, Anne Tyler Has Something to Say 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A common trope among recent converts is that the revelations about the brutality of the meat, dairy and egg industries were hidden from view, until these documentaries exposed them. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z They each want a chance to color outside the lines, reshaping the tropes that once defined their characters and pigeonholed the actors’ careers. Review | ‘BH90210’ briefly verges on a profound statement about middle age: It’s the pits 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z "For disabled characters, I'll examine if the author has used any of the common tropes or stereotypes associated with disability representation." "I have no particular power": Don't blame sensitivity readers for the latest censored books 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z A cultural injection of Black Panther heroics helps continue to erode the crumbling tropes that science is only for white men or reserved for people with a special “science gene.” "Black Panther" and its science role models inspire more than just movie awards 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z The recent films "Evil Dead Rise" and "Clock" present impending motherhood as sources of power and fury, but like the sexual violence tropes of yore, they dwell in dangerous and unrealistic absolutes. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z I was going to ask you about your feelings about the the term as a trope or as a label. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z At the Republican convention in Cleveland last summer, he made use of a trope that served his father well: targeting the elite, despite his own privilege. Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own Kind of Trump 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z I love that aspect of it, and that female filmmakers are excited to take this genre and tropes that we are used to seeing and tell them from a different angle is really exciting. Sebastian Stan on the twisted psyche of his "Fresh" role: "What he is seeking is a willing partner" 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Rather than breaking new ground, “It Follows” recycles familiar teenage horror tropes — a girl alone in a house, evil forces banging on a door — but its mood is dreamy. Review: In ‘It Follows,’ a Shape-Shifting Horror Stalks a Teenager 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z When he goes on a date with a muscular and friendly new neighbor, the writers take great pains to undermine the trope of treating his transness as a big reveal. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z San Fermin’s collective ardor reinvigorates familiar indie tropes: the analog eclecticism, the lavish harmonies, the songbird women, and the solemn men. San Fermin Brings Back Lavish Ensemble Indie Pop 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Talk to, as the trope goes, your health care provider. Motherlode Blog: When Did Childbirth Become Everyone's Business? 2011-11-16T20:31:01Z Just a few blocks away, it’s a stylish, cozy lounge with all the tropes of contemporary cocktail culture: boutique spirits, classic glassware, ambiguously marked entrance. 36 Hours: Hamburg, Germany 2012-01-19T16:06:15Z In the Vogue shoot, Mr. Mitchell photographed Beyoncé as regent, perched on a throne in rococo crowns of spilling flowers, tropes of Renaissance portraiture and white European aristocracy. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The sitcom trope is deposited lightly: Smith is comfortable with the setup, just as she is with her pop culture references. Beware of Family Members Bearing Gifts 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z By extending this imaginative generosity even to people who would usually be villains, Hostage Three goes beyond the tropes of genre fiction, and does something rather more humane and interesting. Hostage Three by Nick Lake – review 2013-02-07T13:08:08Z The result is a series of vignettes that takes the documentary beyond the standard Clinton voter v Trump voter trope. 11/8/16: the documentary that asks us to relive the day Trump shocked America 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Still, police abuses have become such a common subject in comedy that it can feel as if we’ve returned to the days of the Keystone Kops, when aggressive law enforcement was just another trope. How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Even the film “Fever Pitch,” which involves a climactic moment in the middle of Fenway Park, transcends rom-com tropes because of its baseball ties and backdrop. Cleveland’s field of dreams: What hope means for long-suffering Indians fans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z There are plenty of college scenarios and horror movie tropes played for laughs quiet effectively and several real LOL moments in the first two hours. Scream Queens: Glee creator is back with a frighteningly funny horror show 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Next take, and two last tropes, the surrealistic title that has nothing to do with the song and the diligently, nay obsessively, worked on generic blues number. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Marcus Samuelsson, the chef and television personality, took the “family” trope one step further, referring to Spike Lee as “Uncle Spike” for inspiring him to become a chef. Will Smith Calls Bradley Cooper ‘Beautiful’ at Film Gala 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “We wanted to foster dialogues about the myths and tropes of the male-dominated Modernist canon that Picasso exemplifies,” the curator added. Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The online tropes that stuck to Clinton were, on the whole, positive, while the moments associated with Trump had a distinctly negative cast. The First Debate of the Twitter Election 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z In the emotionally overwhelming conversations around what Dr. Ford alleges happened to her at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh, one enragingly pernicious argument going around has been the old trope about youthful folly. Brett Kavanaugh and the convenience of “youthful mistakes” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “We don’t believe in the starving artist trope.” Five highlights from the Seattle Art Fair 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Call it “bro-conceptualism,” in which sports — specifically football and surfing — and fashion models are the reigning tropes. Art in Review: Roe Ethridge: ‘Sacrifice Your Body’ 2014-03-06T22:14:26Z What’s made her so astoundingly successful is the trope of spanking, give or take the odd whip and manacle. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z If “Carol” is like watching one of those YouTube videos that isolates one cinematic trope and pieces them together, the difference is that those are much shorter. | 'A Christmas Carol': ?A Christmas Carol? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2011-12-11T22:50:21Z In advance of "No Time To Die," Changing Faces wrote an open letter to the Bond producers to commit to ending the trope in the franchise in the future. James Bond hasn't changed much, and neither have his problematic villains after 25 films 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Thankfully, they start to shed that well-worn dramatic trope and wise up this week. 'The Strain': Extermination is on tap in 'It's not for everybody' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The film’s predictable story and use of familiar visual tropes are less egregious than its gratuitous approach to the death: the sounds of gunshots, the sight of a last text. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z More often, though, the movie’s emotional gravity gives special heft to venerable Batman tropes. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z In a post-draft era of a volunteer armed forces, the familiar tropes of World War II and Vietnam movies no longer hold. ‘American Sniper’ exemplifies a new kind of war film: The professional procedural. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Imperfect main characters using their differences as crutches are hardly a new trope. What popular culture like "Will Trent" gets wrong about dyslexia, and why it matters 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Our children and grandchildren, goes the trope — but also us, our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The dystopian future is already underway in Maja Lunde's novel 'The History of Bees' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z And you'll experience a ritual and spiritual happening in some way that isn't connected to any religious institution or tropes about patriarchal gods. For Taylor Mac, the stage show is just part of the fight for the LGBT community 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Despite its falling into the genre’s tiresome tropes, this long-gestating production, which opened at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey on Sunday night, succeeds on sheer sonic strength. ‘The Wanderer’ Review: A Dion Musical Hits All the Familiar Notes 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The '80s edition of the trope is a mewling mess who triumphs by sheer luck or last-second intervention of some other savior, usually a man previously believed to be dead. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The film fuses the types and tropes of vintage war pictures with a more contemporary, less romanticized view of the horrors of combat. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Most of the acceptance speeches stuck to standard tropes. As Red Carpets Roll Out, Spotlight Stays on Harassment 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The onscreen trope and societal archetype of the "nice guy" is so frustrating because of the common plot points and social expectations that go hand-in-hand with this particular character. “Sex/Life” and the exhausting, male entitlement of the “nice guy” trope 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Of Mr. Trump’s State of the Union address, she tweeted that his goal appeared to normalize his presidency by using church, family and the military as “the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism.” How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z “The Society” revels in hammy mystery tropes and slapstick religious symbolism. “The Society,” Reviewed: A Teen Dystopia, but with, Like, Socialism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Murnick: “The beautiful dead girl” trope, Adderall, my first writing group, Los Angeles, 9/11, my second writing group, bike commuting, Tinder, my third writing group, lattes, 109th street, leggings as pants. Salon’s author questionnaire: Inside Tom Perrotta’s “Mrs. Fletcher” and more summer must-reads 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a cliché to point out that generic tropes are infecting the mainstream, with a piling-up of various apocalypses by those guilty of literature.” Don’t sleep on the Hugo Awards 2012-08-31T17:06:00Z The romantic lead who makes all the problems go away is a standard trope, but the best heroes have more to them than an overwhelming desire to protect the heroine. In Connie Willis' 'Crosstalk,' sci-fi meets romance in an overcommunication age 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z For those who do, it may serve, symbolically, as an act of rebellion against the Asian good-girl trope, an extension of the “model minority” stereotype — conservative, quiet and hard-working. Why So Many Asian-American Women Are Bleaching Their Hair Blond 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The entire episode is a metaphorical parody of storytelling structures and tropes, and Rick explains the only way to combat his enemy, the Story Lord, is to call up on The Greatest Story Ever Told. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z There’s something about the mere idea of a healthy single female freezing her eggs that seems to play into every last trope: the desperate woman, on the prowl for a baby daddy. Company-Paid Egg Freezing Will Be the Great Equalizer 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The science fact and fiction website io9.com recently published an amusing but insightful article identifying 10 story tropes that top editors at science-fiction publications are sick of seeing. Otherworldly film fun at Cinerama sci-fi fest 2014-04-25T23:42:29Z The season in Japan might literally be an East meets West situation, but it didn’t need to retread any of those tired tropes. How “Queer Eye” approached a culturally sensitive season in Japan beyond karate and chopsticks 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z But “Encanto” also resists having its magical characters fall into the trope of the model immigrants — that they have only earned their place because of their special abilities. ‘Encanto’ Review: In This House, We Make Magic 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In the finale, Galadriel learns the danger of trusting a certain trope of man, the mediocre ones who fall up and will drag you down with them. "The Rings of Power" shows us a new side of Middle-earth: girlfriends 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Do you think the choice of genre — and his treatment of its tropes — says something about his own relationship to the Hollywood past? Poitier and Bogdanovich: The Defiant Ones 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Either way, it remains riveting because of its effective tropes. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Pass’ Wrings Laughs From the Found-Footage Genre 2013-08-22T20:47:19Z What makes him transcend the trope is his vulnerability. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z “Up until a few years ago, we would see the same tropes: the Muslims are terrorists, they are gas station owners, the women are oppressed and have to obey their husbands,” she said. Comedian Ramy Youssef is still figuring out life as a Muslim millennial. So he made a show about it. 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The figure of the wife has also become an important trope within a specific, baroque type of Internet-based humor, and this isn’t accidental. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The trope of bound women in peril became a formula to help sell magazines as did the practice of creating the cover before the story. Who Wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z I felt like at least I was being true to who I saw him as, rather than this trope. Lindsay Hunter on her new novel of addiction, 'Eat Only When You're Hungry' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z This became perhaps the most familiar trope and strategy of pop: its elevation of the commonplace, the unregarded. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z It takes place entirely in a universe of tropes and archetypes, which is a polite way of saying clichés and pretensions. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z Instead the programme is about the things we recognise, but perhaps haven’t acknowledged, in cinema; the recurrent stories, themes and tropes that underlie the movies we love. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Both as a writer and in his personal outlook, Shepard drew deeply from the old trope that nature and innocence are intertwined. Rural America: Where Sam Shepard’s roots ran deepest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Let me make a proposition here and now: Death to the virginal nerd trope. Review: ‘In Love and Warcraft’ Serves Romance for Noobs 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z American Horror Story” may have gone fairly far out on a limb in the first episode but as with other seasons, the show leans on classic horror tropes to act as foundation. ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: Lady Gaga Checks In 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z With that perspective, Chou wrote a screenplay addressing adoption in a way that rarely makes it into K-dramas, which tend to use adopted children as cinematic tropes. Don't believe the K-dramas: Look to "Return to Seoul" for a more realistic view on Korean adoptees 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Brian D. Johnson, film critic for the Canadian magazine MacLeans, wrote on his Twitter account: "The Captive, a procedural pastiche of Egoyan tropes, draws boos at press screening. Responses range from dumbfounded to vicious." Hollywood sends animated stars to Cannes festival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Here and in his other works, Mr. Hunter sometimes strains to impose the standard tropes of drama on plays that are fundamentally character studies. Theater Review: In ‘The Few,’ a Man’s Return Stirs Emotions 2014-05-11T20:04:03Z You play into some tropes and stereotypes in the film, such as the 1940s era hard-boiled cop and reporter, but also the small-town folks, like the sheriff in New English. “Abattoir” director Darren Lynn Bousman serves up horror with noir ambitions 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z At first, his story seems potentially entertaining — the kind of tabula rasa trope Hollywood might convert to trifling comedy. David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z Focusmate is not a solution to the problem of meaningless productivity; its literature, for example, still relies on plenty of tired tropes about work. The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z There are, no doubt, references to art historical tropes, perhaps to images that remind of us of the brevity of life, or even penitence. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z In the absence of rational agency on either side, the narrative defaulted effortlessly into the tropes of legend: quests for magical weapons, duelling codes of conduct, ransoms and bounties, eschatological bombast, archaic barbarity. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-01-31T07:01:01Z That effacement of Cleo’s character, her reduction to a bland and blank trope that burnishes the director’s conscience while smothering her consciousness and his own, is the essential and crucial failure of “Roma.” There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the monstrous tropes of horror’s mainstream began to be configured during the rise of eugenics in the United States. Midsommar's ableism resurrects the dark history of eugenics-inspired horror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z It unpacks the tropes and cultural markers of the era and fondly repackages nostalgia by celebrating the enchantment of performance and the giddy adventure of amateurism. The New Season of “GLOW” Is Proudly Defiant in Presenting a Camp Eighties Pageant 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z I wanted to convey a sense of the visual history of Judaism with the book by demonstrating all the aesthetic tropes that the culture has adopted through the ages, from antiquity to modernity. Not the Harvey Pekar graphic novel you’d expect 2012-07-13T13:39:00Z The problem is, the show doesn’t treat these characters as humans, but walking, talking movie tropes. Scream: MTV adaptation of 90s teen horror flick lacks original's killer instinct 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The genre tends to incorporate stereotypes and misinformation, favoring myth over humanity, and erases entire culturally distinct groups of people by leaning on pan-Indian tropes. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z For horror fans, Raw is the latest in an encouraging wave of genre-bending movies which have twisted familiar tropes to new and unsettling ends. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The tropes are recognizable right out of the box. 'Marco Polo' leads Netflix into uncharted territory 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Although you didn't write it, can you talk about how you upend the tropes of the genre? Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Instead, “Five Year” aims to combine dramatic tropes from both countries. A Korean Television Show About the Power of Pop Culture 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Each employs thriller tropes, such as conspiracy and espionage: in Messiah, the CIA and Mossad investigate who the rumoured second Jesus really is. Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Ballardian tropes – empty swimming pools, abandoned resorts, psychotic astronauts, damaged doctors, the alluring nihilism of consumer society and so forth – are unmistakably and uniquely his. Writers pick their favourite short stories 2011-01-04T14:28:46Z And so I was interested in: What are the true parts of those tropes, and what are the untrue parts of those tropes? "It's a tool, it's a Swiss Army knife": Aimee Mann on how individuals deal with trauma through art 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z This film is considered the first use of "the call is coming from inside the house" trope, as cops trace obscene phone calls received by the sorority sisters to their home itself. "Only Murders in the Building" and our primal love of secret passageways 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z It includes scrapbooks and designs by the companies for which she modeled, as well as videos of her late-in-life fashion shows, which blended tropes from the worlds of high fashion and performance art. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Her lyrics hit familiar tropes — hard living, hard drinking, being “fifty-seven dollars from being broke” — and are heavy with real heartbreak and loss. Farm Aid weaves blues-country-rock tapestry at Jiffy Lube 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z These movies, which deploy tried-and-true genre tropes with various degrees of success, rest finally on the skill and conviction of their lead performers. Worried About the Health of Cinema? Sundance Has Good News for You. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Motherhood has always been a tricky subject on “American Horror Story,” which has seen its fair share of Smother Mothers, a horror trope that goes back to Norma Bates of “Psycho”. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 3: Mother Issues 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Occasionally the work’s modernist tropes, which peak with the use of a loudspeaker, are pierced by stylistic interjections: a fiddling folk song, Eastern idioms. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Directed by Vaughn Stein and written by David K. Murray, the movie coasts on so many tropes that you almost expect it to subvert them, but the plot remains equally foreseeable. ‘Every Breath You Take’ Review: The Therapist as Trauma Victim 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z One trope of interviewing authors is to meet them somewhere relevant to their most recent book. Such a nice guy, such savage books: Don Winslow and 'The Cartel' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The depiction of motherhood as a trap—of having one’s self subsumed by another human’s needs—is a well-established trope, and the reader might wonder if the narrator suffers from a postpartum disorder. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Comedy is one of his main tactics, and his videos often make fun of tropes of gay and black cultures. What happens when your whimsical ‘Wizard of Oz’ obsession actually pays off? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Since that isn’t enough it throws in gay-baiting and tropes about dumb Southerners for good measure. 2018's biggest TV disappointments, from moderately painful to the absolute worst 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In contrast, the romance between Konefal’s character Ciara and her paramour Ben is a delightful twist on the typical “damsel in distress” trope. Feminism is alive and well on "Days of Our Lives" 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z “That’s a trope, the stock woman who says: ‘Don’t do the brave thing.’ Emma Thompson: sexism in acting industry is worse than ever 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z These are familiar tropes to us all, especially considering the environment we’re in right now, and the timely poetry of these united voices comes through loud and clear. Things to Do in NYC This Weekend: MoMA PS1 and Quad Cinema 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The use of tropes doesn’t mean these books should be dismissed as predictable or hollow, readers say. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Recaps and montages are hardly revolutionary devices of course, but they're tropes Big Brother previously shied away from while it loosely maintained the pretence that it was still a TV "experiment" conducted under laboratory conditions. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Big Brother 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Mike Birbiglia, who has done more than anyone to add theatrical ambition to American stand-up, leans on this structural trope in his latest solo show, “The Old Man & the Pool.” Best Comedy of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z David Robert Mitchell’s slick teenage horror film is both a homage to the genre’s tropes and a refreshingly original story full of haunting mystery. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Circus’ and ‘Radio Days’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The final episode promises to complete Wayne and Gordon’s transformation, and put a cap on a dark show that has found success in resisting some of the superhero genre’s tropes. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Gotham’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z He’s like a reality twist on a sitcom trope, the sidelined patriarch who is dragged to cooking lessons and finds out from the local news that his stepdaughter is engaged. The forgotten history of Bruce Jenner: How the all-American hero of the 1970s ended up here 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z At the same time, the visual novelty was built on a sturdy foundation of familiar themes and genre tropes. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But unlike “Selma,” her drama about Martin Luther King, Jr., it can seem awkwardly sermonic, relaying its ideas by way of familiar tropes. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Throughout her career, the style-shifting novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia has demonstrated a remarkable ability to employ the tropes of genre fiction while simultaneously subverting and decolonizing them. Review | Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s ‘Velvet Was the Night’ is a noir-thriller as captivating as its title 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Though Frances works hard to hide her obliterating menstrual agony from Nick and Bobbi, her pain thrusts her into a trope that shapes the terms by which she can relate to others. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Much has been written about Portman’s role as one of the first modern incarnations of the manic pixie dream-girl trope; these days the role looks like a compendium of the most irritating cliches possible. Natalie Portman's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z "Dune" does fit the trope in some ways; Paul is literally a messianic figure from beyond the stars, and the Fremen are clearly inspired by Middle Eastern people. Is "Dune" a white savior movie? Denis Villeneuve responds 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The song appeared on the band’s debut album, “Frenching the Bully,” a 30-minute mosh pit elevated beyond punk tropes by Zapata’s presence; she practically vibrates with vitriol, not just for others but herself as well. Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z It's become a wearying trope of today's Hollywood that families, especially happy ones, are just about mandated to trade glib wisecracks, so these otherwise appealing actors take deep breaths and banter away. 'If I Stay' asks life-and-death questions, with love as a referee 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Love as ailment is an ancient trope which the poem revitalises with its references to filled eyes, sinusitis, vertigo, and the idea that it's something we "never quite get over." Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z Yet thanks to the beauty of the film's visuals – as well as the fact that, deep down, it contains universal storytelling tropes – Miyazaki can get viewers to buy into his world. Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" continues to delight fans 20 years after its U.S. premiere 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z We have seen this trope as the logo for Land O' Lakes butter, but we have also seen it in film with white washed stories like that of Pocahontas and Sacagawea. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z But that's admittedly not much of a selling point if you don't know and love the tropes in the first place. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z There are other subplots and characters here, because, in order to lampoon holiday movie tropes, “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas” has to first come up with its own bad holiday movie. Grumpy Cat’s Lifetime holiday movie: Claws out for Claus There are a few tropes one comes to expect from a ballet dancer’s memoir. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z This leads to the obligatory scene of her being mugged for no reason but to satisfy Hollywood's yen to perpetuate tropes about Black criminals preying on white women. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z All the usual BSP tropes – the liberal politics, the military references, the gossamer instrumentation – are here, just with more polish. British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehall - review 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z In this regard, the subplot brought back the “Breaking Bad” trope of a criminal underbelly, hiding in plain sight, something “Better Call Saul” could stand to do more often. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 2: What’s Hoboken Got to Do With It? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z “In 2018, we are still seeing some of the same tropes that we are talking about in the film.” From Blacula to Get Out: the documentary examining black horror 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z And unlike the common and derided "bury your gays" TV trope, here love is allowed to bloom and live. A bolder than "Bridgerton" reading list: Regency books with a twist Eloise would love 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Directed by Santiago Menghini, whose background in visual effects has not helped him mount convincing ones here, the movie grafts standard horror-movie tropes onto a portrait of the struggles of undocumented immigrants in America. ‘No One Gets Out Alive’ Review: Seeking Shelter, Finding Terror 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Sarkeesian, who makes videos examining misogynist tropes in video games, had to flee her home because of violent threats. Felicia Day Writes About #GamerGate, Gets Information Hacked 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Out of time, in the wrong place, a lone gun … it's hard to imagine what will have to happen before Justified has covered off all of the tropes of the classic western. The National Movie Awards 2010 2010-05-26T06:59:00Z What I suspect has hurt Green Book more – especially with the younger, savvier Oscar-voting demographic – are all the complaints about white-saviour tropes. Why Green Book should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z But when the plot fixates on suburban angst, Behrman risks staleness with well-worn tropes like the closeted jock or the homophobic school bully. ‘Giant Little Ones’ Review: The Turmoil of Teenage Sexuality 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z "I'm consciously invoking those tropes," Syms says, sitting in the Hammer's courtyard. At Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial, Martine Syms makes her moment 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Take the well-worn trope “you are what you eat.” Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z But “Psycho” opens up new, grotesque seams in the trope. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z We’ve assembled a sampling of these analogues, organized by theme, showing how our political tropes are cultural ones as well. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z It is such a tired, ridiculous trope that the best way to respond to it is outright mockery. The Internet has the perfect response to Barbie’s failed computer engineering book 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z So bizarre is the subject matter that no literary tropes are needed to bring it alive. Pride and promiscuity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z That comedy, which was also an MCC Theater production, adapted the “Mean Girls” template to a high school in Ghana, where the catty, competitive tropes of the genre turned into something fresh. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Designed by WRK, Brooklyn Winery hits nearly every hipster industrial design trope: The wood is reclaimed from church pews, schools and World War II ammo boxes. Bo?te: Brooklyn Winery Opens in Williamsburg 2010-11-19T02:50:00Z But it is worthwhile reading due to the way that it breaks down well-established tropes, such as the notion that Black judges are a frequent sight in courtrooms, which is in contrast to reality. Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here's the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Some tributes tripped over the very tropes they were trying to mock, perhaps intentionally. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Once a Last-Minute Addition to ‘Seinfeld,’ Wins Comedy’s Top Honor 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z But, “That’s true of murder, too, isn’t it?” the documentarian queries in response, leading her to mouth another standard trope: “It’s kind of between her and God. She will get her punishment from God.” The moral deceit of pro-lifers: How Donald Trump accidentally revealed the true hypocrisy of the war on women 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Putting political figures onstage in veiled or allegorical form is a trope as old as opera. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z So, does he worry about being typecast as the neurotic Jewish guy, one of Hollywood's most beloved and reductive tropes? Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social' 2013-07-04T15:58:10Z At best it's an odd confluence of true crime, documentary tropes, and visual artistry. Showtime's alluring "Love Fraud" exposes the common con artist charming America's lonely women 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z The silhouetted lovers of “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” hit familiar tropes of love and woke gender politics in a fresh way. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z But the artist found ways to subvert these tropes. Jordan Casteel Won’t Let You Look Away 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Décor in this moderate-size space befits a dead aunt’s conservatory, and hews to well-worn tropes: Edison bulbs in birdcages, gold wallpaper, a crystal chandelier. Boîte: The Flat, a New Brooklyn Bar 2012-08-08T20:18:03Z AP: This modern story rejects many animated feature tropes, including your character, a stepmother called Mrs. Zhong who is not evil. Sandra Oh celebrates Asian culture in film ‘Over the Moon’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z What’s so refreshing about “The Edge of Seventeen” is how expertly it upends all the tired tropes of teen comedies, ranging from “Love Finds Andy Hardy” to “The Breakfast Club.” The teen cult classic you’ve been waiting for: Catch “The Edge of Seventeen” in theaters while you still can 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z This new season contains a number of reality show tropes, foremost among them being a season-long plan for a major event – this one being the wedding of a major character. Smart Watch: “Insecure,” “Disenchantment,” and more top TV picks for this week 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z As a 2013 survey from Complex discovered, that rule—one of the most time-honored horror movie tropes—both is and is not true. Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired trope 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The inaugural season of the series took the summer by storm, introducing fans to fantasy tropes like hit points, 20-sided dice and the demogorgon. Dungeons & Dragons isn’t a spectator sport: What we lose when the game comes out of the basement and onto the screen 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z It's taking the archetypes and tropes of our most popular love stories from the last 50 or 100 years and following them to a certain logical conclusion. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z She seems to know that she has to go high when they go low, lest she fall into the trope of an angry black woman. Fraught Racial Dynamics in the ‘Bachelorette’ Premiere 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The informally-phrased question, "And what's a life," is answered by a trope beloved of Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, the metaphor of the stage. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z And it turns out that this, more or less, is what Knight delivers—without actually having anything to say about these tropes and conventions. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z And not by Max Mara, whose dream of outfitting a female James Bond mired the brand in very-last-century men’s wear tropes, all military tone-on-tone three-piece suiting complete with epaulets, waistcoats, giant utility pockets and ties. ‘Too Much Fashion, Too Much Clothes, Too Much Everything’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The shimmer of the setting desert sun, the dust-choked streets, the high-noon gunslingers' showdown: all the pictorial tropes are present, accounted for and handsomely realized. 'Rango' sells its soul for live-action 2011-03-02T22:58:00Z The vignettes intermingle historical and romantic tropes, a series of other games, if you will, that disturb our complacent preconceptions. Review | You’ve never seen a play quite like Woolly Mammoth’s ‘Underground Railroad Game.’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “You read the autobiographies of the top players, the tropes are exactly the same: alcohol, gambling, fast cars, women trouble, dystopian families,” he said. He Knows His Way Around a Half-Butt (That’s Snooker Talk) 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z How does Afrofuturist art, which incorporates folklore and culture into futurist tropes, allows you to address today’s issues from a decolonized lens? With ‘Neptune Frost,’ How to Make an Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z As computer-generated swords supersede the real thing, and more fantastical stories supplant traditional period tropes, Kamiyama and his cohort watch from the sidelines. ‘Uzumasa Limelight,’ About a Fading Actor 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z White and black feminists alike sometimes exhibit a level of discomfort at seeing Michelle Obama embrace a Norman Rockwell-esque vision of American motherhood, as if the trope doesn’t properly belong to a black woman. Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z In a world where any successful trope of film is regurgitated to death, directors have an increasingly difficult job if they want to catch us off our guard and deliver a genuine surprise. Clip joint: unexpected deaths 2013-04-11T09:03:52Z And one of the movie’s tacit messages about that process is that the trope of the “difficult genius” is alive and well, if prone to the occasional hangover. Perspective | The ‘difficult genius’ trope was always problematic. Now it’s obsolete. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Also, there's a skewering of the redoubtable sitcom trope of "the wedding episode", as Shirley and Andre prepare to tie the knot again, while Abed's addiction to hiring celebrity impersonators takes a troubling turn. TV highlights 17/05/2013 2013-05-17T06:00:06Z The plot is a ridiculous but diverting assemblage of spy-movie tropes: a weapons-of-mass-destruction threat, hit squads, car chases and megafights in scenic foreign cities that borrow heavily from the “Bourne” movies. ‘Red 2’: Spy comedy is still a blast 2013-07-18T01:09:21Z With no sign announcing its presence, the airy bar takes up two floors and is furnished with the design tropes of the day: embossed wallpaper, pressed-tin-like ceiling, exposed brick, dark woods and factory-style windows. Boîte: Middle Branch in Murray Hill 2012-10-10T19:09:03Z While this movie can fairly be described as Spielbergian, it turns on an emphatic and explicit debunking of Spielberg’s most characteristic visual trope: the awe-struck upward gaze. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z As racial equality was an integral objective of Peoples Temple, Jones shrewdly adopted tropes of black spiritual traditions in the United States. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Two years later, the big comic-book-based hit wasn’t a downbeat meditation on grief and the burdens of unchecked power, but “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a gleefully irreverent riff on superhero tropes. ‘Batman v Superman’ broke records at the box office. But that doesn’t justify its existence. 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z On her own, the final girl is just a trope. Perspective | ‘Halloween’: 40 years ago, Laurie Strode got inside my head. She’s still there. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z For all of the nuance and refreshing creative direction of "The Guilty," much of it still suffers from the same, tired tropes that it presumably tries to avoid. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z In season one and part of season two, the unreliable narrator trope was stretched and reshaped until it was too knotty to decipher. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z A Monday article about Republican silence on Trump’s attacks used this description: “Insinuating that people of color are foreigners, the president used a trope broadly viewed as racist.” Perspective | Tiptoeing around Trump’s racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Female independence has become such a trope that it’s become another role for women to play: independent career woman, independent post-breakup vixen, independent spitfire who doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z This sacrificial disabled person trope is a genre specialty, seen in a whole host of science fiction and fantasy from the gothic classic "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to the 2021 film "Mother/Android." Frank deserves better than "Station Eleven." So do disabled stories 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The likelihood of all this family togetherness devolving into discord is so great it’s become a Hollywood trope. Q&A: Miss Manners on the Best Holiday Visits 2012-12-14T15:54:23Z “There’s a lot more going on behind the tropes,” Hultenschmidt said. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Like the “Poppy War” trilogy, “Babel” used fantasy tropes to examine complex themes: the impact of colonialism and racism, and the way elite institutions drive social inequality. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Although Fattore has never worked with this trope in her own writing, she couldn't escape its underlying messaging about self-worth and relationship dynamics. "He's All That" and why the Pygmalion story is so important to – yet undermines – teen stories 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “The strong Black woman trope is designed to keep you in a state of service,” she added. After Two Decades in Music, Yola Expands Her Powers 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z But I’ve come increasingly to admire McPherson’s use, and subversion, of well-worn tropes to create a collective national sensibility, filtered through decades of memory. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Despite Lydia’s being a big and broad character, you’re careful to keep her from becoming a one-note character or a trope. Rita Moreno Aims to Hit the Right Accent on ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But its algorithm-driven success depends largely on binge-watching fueled by cliffhangers, the oldest of tropes. Netflix: Is mainstream content squeezing out the daring plots viewers originally fell for? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Parodying the tropes of feminism’s enemies is not, in itself, unfunny or unhelpful. Sorry, Feminists: Misandry Isn't Funny 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z I’m not sure this trope can be dismissed by looking out of the window quite as easily. ‘Do they really think I'm his mother?’: life with a younger, hotter boyfriend 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Were there other tropes from the genre that you wanted to play with in the film? Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women and the Haunted House in 'Crimson Peak' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z And yet, somehow, this is a trope that has popped up repeatedly over the last 30 years. Big man, small kid: why the bodybuilding babysitter is a recipe for movie success 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z To my mind, Binet doesn’t really do enough with these familiar metafictional tropes, and he’s much better at satire and suspense. Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Riley uses tropes from sketch comedy and cartoons in order to turn extreme and antic metaphors into an apt representation of the grotesqueries that have come to pass as ordinary. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z A lot of tropes remained unchallenged by Bridesmaids – it’s still a quest for intimacy, for true love, in which sex for pleasure is implicitly self-destructive and only intermittently pleasurable, but it was something. Yes, yes, yes! Welcome to the golden age of slutty cinema 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z But when one half of the relationship is white, growing diversity in publishing and more authors of color writing romances which reflect their experiences have led to my new favorite trope: the White Boyfriend. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z When I was writing the column I made a point of ignoring that trope as much as possible. The Frugal Five 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Now the surreal urban landscape houses the visual tropes of modern African life within an aesthetic imported from early-twentieth-century Europe, all of it presided over by the country’s repressive single-party government. The Timeworn Beauty of Asmara, Eritrea 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Both of these scenes in Netflix’s creature feature share a noticeable trope in modern TV storytelling; mostly practised by a new wave of American shows that unsparingly portray their characters’ inner lives. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z That's why it's this cultural trope and that's why people get really f**king weird about church and Jesus and God and things like that. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z But “Enchanted” also has maybe my least favorite romantic-comedy trope, the tightly wound fiancée. Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone More Low-Key 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet it all feels a little forced, as if the play was going down a checklist of tough-guy tropes. Review: In ‘Divine Horsemen,’ a Checklist of Tough-Guy Tropes 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The risk in an original programming scenario is that the old “build it and they will come” trope doesn’t automatically hold up. How Sony's free streaming service is trying to take on Netflix and Amazon 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Jones is the level-headed figure in a vast land of fools; she's also playing to the trope of the Black woman savior utilized in the first "Borat" and touted in this election cycle. "Borat 2" makes an America slathered in misogyny and disinformation reckon with itself 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z A big departure from the usual trope: the characters’ sweetness is there from the start rather than drummed into them as the only way to escape the loop. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Their favorite boorish pastime is the most clichéd post-apocalyptic trope: forcing prisoners to battle to the death, except this time against zombies. Despair all ye who board the joyless "Train to Busan" sequel, where even the zombies feel generic 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It ignores old tropes of “men’s wear” and “women’s wear,” treating them as shibboleths from another time; it takes the totems of aspiration and muddies them up with glee. What Is ‘American Fashion’ Now? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z These men simultaneously ignored and belittled women’s pain, infantilizing them while drawing on old tropes of “hysterical” women. The Kavanaugh hearings: Angry white men get to be righteous; angry women “a mob” 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z If true, it’s probably because her songs incorporate the most affirming pop tropes and strategies of the past 10 years. Perspective | Lizzo is everything. Is that enough? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The basic trope — the last man on the ground — recalls an emotionally resonant idea of responsibility and even chivalry. Perspective | The viral photo of the last soldier in Afghanistan is powerful — and that’s why it’s deceptive 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z This formally tricky style owes an obvious debt to the satirical stand-up of Steve Martin, who also built an act on unpacking show business tropes. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z The "Thriller" video itself plays with the classic horror trope of wholesome American life being a cover for ugly horrors beneath. The Reagan era and "Us": Sins of the '80s still haunt America in Jordan Peele's horror tale 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The script, an ingenious concoction of familiar tropes and subversions thereof, gave humanity five years until an unfriendly alien species crash-landing in 2015 has laid claim to most of continental Europe. Apocalypse now-ish: what can we learn from films set in 2020? 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The show is also unashamedly overdramatic; like Moriarty’s text, it uses tropes – in this case, of soap opera – to dare viewers to take it seriously. Has the satire and humour of Big Little Lies been lost in translation? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Time-tested tropes of the genre — the planning montage, the inevitable need to change plans on the fly, the high-speed getaway — have thrilled audiences for over half a century. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Until “Spy Kids,” most films with Latinx leads relied on tropes of gangs or criminal activity to show drama and conflict. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Stuffed with hoary old detective show tropes, and with red herrings wilfully thrown in and abandoned without explanation, after 90 minutes this flabby whodunnit becomes more of a whocares. TV highlights 30/05/2012 2012-05-29T18:59:01Z From a distance, it appears to be a mash-up of several Broadway tropes: updated Shakespeare, romantic fantasy and hit parade. 7 Musicals Head to Broadway This Fall, but 100 More Lie in Wait 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Vigalondo’s film is nowhere near as ambitious or as rigorous as Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” but it shares that movie’s interest in using horror movie tropes to unlock heavily defended areas of social unease. Review: ‘Colossal,’ With Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Giant Monsters 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “Girls” never bothered with any of these tropes. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “Shiksa” was less a neologism to describe something new than a mature concept finally named; the forbidden seductress is in fact a dusty Jewish trope that goes as far back as the Bible. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z The bro comedy trope of the guy trying so, so hard not to finish so, so fast certainly has its roots in reality, but not necessarily a physical one. Men are better at sex than they think they are 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The trope of Aunt Jemima is a monument to the good old days and keeping black women in their place, and I believe in tearing down the monument. How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z She said she relates to the common trope of female leads who, if too “hard-working and independent, ‘they’ll never get married and settle down,’ but they prove everyone wrong.” These Black women are obsessed with Korean TV dramas. Here’s why. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “Every trope in romantic movies was in Austen novels first.” The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z This pastness of the past is the dominant trope of the book. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review 2013-01-25T07:00:02Z Fantasy stories, like all genre narratives, are built on archetypes, and “Game of Thrones” seems to leave no trope of feminine power unexplored. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z Not every romance novel adheres to a trope, but many do — and romance readers often have favorites. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Characters traveling by car is a trope in Kiarostami’s films, in your father’s work and in your debut. For Panah Panahi, Being the Son of an Iranian Auteur Wasn’t Entirely Helpful 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z As Galantis, the duo takes current electronic-music tropes — thumping beats, climactic builds, even more climactic beat drops — and fuses them with their proven gifts for crafting ear worms. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 28-Nov. 3 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But it was just this kind of trope on which his later career would provide an elegantly ironic perspective. Robert Forster: a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The term she uses, “Black body,” pulls me back into a debate I’ve been having with curators and writers about whether this trope is appropriate and performs the work we imagine it should. Oasa DuVerney’s Black Power Wave 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Even with all the girl-power trappings, it still bristles with nasty princess tropes. From Snow White to Brave: the evolution of the Action Princess 2012-06-26T16:21:04Z Some chapters sample the tropes and tones of their professed genre. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The fact that they haven’t done this cursory research reflects the fact that denial is a central trope of the series. Consider the “Catfish” 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In "Satin Island," McCarthy gives the trope of the reluctant detective a fresh turn. Tom McCarthy keeps protagonist and readers guessing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The nice thing about movies is there are tropes and there are genres and with “Little Women” there’s so much shared iconography of this material, it allows you to play with it. Greta Gerwig on making ‘Little Women’ ‘at the speed of life’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “The Darkest Minds” plays like a lightning round in which the goal is to hit as many teenage-dystopia tropes as possible. ‘The Darkest Minds,’ With Thought Control and Telekinesis 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Other tropes – not present in Kursk – include periscope POV, playing possum, depth charges, silent running, the yell of “Dive! Dive! Dive!” Naval gazing: the submarine's fathomless rise to screen stardom 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Docter, who has written about animation history, acknowledged, “There’s a long and painful history of caricatured racist design tropes that were used to mock African-Americans.” ‘Soul’ Features Pixar’s First Black Lead Character. Here’s How It Happened. 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The second part of the show deals more with conspiracy as a mind-set and recurring trope of American thought, with the artists capturing the dark mood of the country, its suspicions and paranoia. Perspective | Art can help distinguish between conspiracy and reality, and this exhibition proves it 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Nevins also seems overly fixated on whether a writer originated or merely popularized a particular literary trope. Review | ‘The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom’ beautifully demonstrates the evolution of a genre 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z We aimed to make them complex, so when we go home with them, they aren't a trope, they aren't simple, they have a rainbow of emotions. “Cruel Summer” showrunner talks grooming storyline and finale twists 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Early on, Martin’s rather grown-up demeanor means the trope of the bewitched kid lacks a certain lighthearted, childlike wonder. ‘Fantasy Football’ Review: Controlled Chaos 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z McBride revels in constructing a hero’s journey for Sportcoat, but that does not mean he relies on typical tropes or traditional endings. Review | James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ offers a rollicking examination of a Brooklyn community 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Driving home that trope, Mr. Crewdson brought street lamps into many scenes, fitting them with special lights that cast an eerie glow. For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Here’s a pervasive trope: Americans love a comeback! The Sexual Innocence of Britney Spears 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It is also a vision of a radical new kind of writing, one suited to a woman’s body and language and experience outside of the primarily masculine narrative tropes of the past. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z But even the catchiest tropes can become rote, as “Ends of the Earth” proves. Hot Chip's In Our Heads: Between Earworms and Experimentation 2012-06-12T17:30:07Z It's such a familiar trope now it's hard to believe that it once didn't exist – the idea of the anguished naif expressing his existential dismay while surrounded by a juggernaut of technology. New band of the day ? No 974: Niva 2011-02-25T17:37:15Z It has simply accelerated the circulation of the same tired cultural tropes, leaving us with wheels that turn ever faster in a ditch. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It mostly transcends the usual sports movie tropes, likely because it’s a true story about this remarkable young woman. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z While it caters to the tropes and archetypes that television viewers want in addictive storylines, each episode is unquestionably cinematic in scope and execution as it weaves an enticing and unapologetically political narrative. The daring of “Queen Sugar”: A new season explores the social and economic weight of legacy 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z And it's a classic trope of children's adventure that the children do something crucial that saves the day. E Nesbit's classic The Railway Children accused of 'plagiarism' 2011-03-21T14:40:53Z As the title character claims increasing power over Robert’s household, his neighborhood and his very existence, Golem-themed tropes begin to proliferate. In ‘Golem,’ the Troupe 1927 Shares a Stage With a Claymation Co-Star 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Balanchine adapted “Slaughter” from his 1936 Broadway musical “On Your Toes,” with music by Richard Rodgers — lots of cymbals — and it’s little more than a lively romp of intentionally campy Broadway tropes. Review | This ballerina played the role of a stripper, and she owned it 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The labyrinthine quality of that mystery emphasizes structure over narrative, and makes “characters” no more important than other things that recur: tropes, references, motifs. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z While the characters they play may be two-dimensional, one of the pleasures of seeing Ruth and Debbie’s journey is that they aren’t flattened into tropes at all. Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Stand by for every Robin Hood cliche going, a few gentle digs at Doctor Who’s structure and tropes, and you have a rather gentle episode of Doctor Who. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Episode 3 Review: Robot Of Sherwood 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Then they launch into Black Heart, a comforting aggregation of 1960s girl-group tropes. Stooshe – review 2012-12-13T18:15:50Z “Fantasy is a genre of tropes, and I think a lot of people don’t understand that,” Ms. Clare said of the lawsuit. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Empowered female leads have since become a trope in Scott’s work. Ridley Scott: ‘I wanted to scare the shit out of people. That’s the job’ 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z “There are certain theater tropes that come to exist and in Midsummer Night’s Dream you are up against a lot of them,” she says. Aging Fairies Take the Stage in Shakespeare in the Park's A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z What happens next can’t be discussed without spoiling the fun, but suffice it to say that one gory scene after another serves to bludgeon the tropes of the genre. 11 Horror Movies for People Who Don’t Like Scary Movies 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z It falls into the common period trope of the embarrassed young girl's sudden bodily shame accompanied by her clueless male counterpart. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z But the Vigilant Citizen can't encounter a predictable pop trope without interpreting it as part of an occult music-industry plot to brainwash the masses. Lady Gaga and the New World Order 2010-07-01T20:59:00Z “That was a trope that was used constantly.” ‘Reading the story today makes me cringe’: Female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “I love farces, but they typically rely on sexist and racist tropes,” Fillinger said. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They are the antithesis of the casino-rich tribes who have become a pop culture trope. Within the Grand Canyon, the Lure of Havasu Falls 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z For these young project dwellers in search of “cultural roots,” embracing “tropes of an anti-Jewish hate” that are woven into the language of their environs was, Weitzmann suggests, an easy step. How France Became a Dangerous Place to Be a Jew 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The record cleaves to their trademark formula of melding gothic and classical stylings to world-music tropes in an audacious bid to create music of a sublime, sculpted beauty. Dead Can Dance – review 2012-10-28T18:45:01Z The British-born American director uses horror tropes for twisted gems such as the world’s first ‘Iranian vampire western’. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z This is what nefarious cult leaders do, rely on cultural tropes that have become normalized to drum up support among followers they've groomed. Russell Brand is evolving his next gig: Cult leader 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: Quirk Books Anyone giving a cursory glance to horror fiction today might think it's dominated by zombies, vampires and cod-literary mashups – tropes of supernatural fiction inserted into classic texts, with varying results. Campaign for Real Fear aims to shock the horror fiction world 2010-03-31T08:05:00Z For my own part, like Rosenberg, I saw Sansa’s scenes, which drew heavily on the tropes of fairy tales, as fitting within a wider commentary. Game of Thrones walks fine line on rape: how much more can audiences take? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z It combines all the old-fashioned hard-boiled tropes with a detailed description of 1950s New York, and adds murders, magic, a coven of Satanists and a voodoo priestess. Review | Fantasy noir combines the best of two genres. These are the books that do it well. 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z It seems like a very odd old trope. Alia Shawkat on Going From 'Sassy Teen' to the Lead in Search Party 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z But underneath them is an arresting struggle between old school and new school, not unlike the kind found in revisionist westerns, which wonderfully plays with the tropes of the genre. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z At risk of reading too much subtext into a fun show, “GLOW” seems designed to compare the well-worn tropes that wrestling cherishes with the authentic relationships and dialogue that fuel good TV comedy. ‘GLOW’ Season 1: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Wright also advanced a theory of Bigger Thomas as a reproducible trope, a mass-produced archetype of black masculinity. “Native Son” and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “It was the stale fantasy trope of, humans are the good guys, monsters are the bad guys,” Mr. Jones said. Duncan Jones, David Bowie’s Son, on Making ‘Warcraft’ and Facing His Own Battles 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z I couldn’t help wondering if Incredibles 2 was consciously trying to avoid this trope, despite being in the planning many years before the #MeToo campaign. How Incredibles 2 goes to work for the feminist superhero 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z And no wonder: the tone of the show plays to the trope that all comedians are in actuality broken people who are willing to expose their brokenness for our light amusement. Riff: Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy. 2012-02-03T22:00:07Z Burnham and Berlant started watching solo shows and working with those tropes. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Instead they connect to some of our most dependable tropes, whether we recognize them or not. Cuomo, Fauci, Birx: The New Influencers 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z It’s what got him interested in ideas about confounding perspective and playing with familiar American tropes. Phish’s Art Director Calls Four Shipping Containers Home 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z “So often women of color are relegated to playing simple tropes: the sidekick, the best friend, the noble savage, or the clown,” Nyong’o wrote. The revolution is bigger than “Hamilton”: This year’s Tony nods offer much-needed contrast to #OscarsSoWhite 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Making Kennedy a baritone — rather than a tenor, as his speaking voice suggests — is designed to avoid heroic tropes. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z |
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