Even when riddled with disease the grotesquerie holds our gaze.
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"[W]e have reached Roman Empire grotesquerie," Stone told Zoller Seitz.
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It was the pomp-and-circumstantial grotesquerie of the doing that was maddening.
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The balled-up fist of a beloved childhood icon harnessed for sexual grotesquerie.
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Characters are disemboweled, heroines vomit bugs — the film thrills with gore and grotesquerie.
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The Beguiled masquerades as a Southern Gothic tale, with all the requisite grotesquerie.
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What I remember of Dog Days is a grotesquerie of pointless violence and snowballing calamity.
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Farrell and his co-signers are using the true grotesquerie of Nielsen's tenure — child separations!
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Undoubtedly women have a much better understanding of this particular brand of grotesquerie than men do.
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Dead wrestlers, drugs, and money can make the missteps of a normal person turn into grotesquerie.
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The debate on whether Trump is harmless, whether we should laugh away his grotesquerie, is misplaced.
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The result is a panorama of atomic grotesquerie that is at once troubling, surprising and ruthlessly entertaining.
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And for more early Peter Jackson grotesquerie, Bad Taste is also on Tubi and available to Amazon Prime Video subscribers.
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Yet it's in his lingering on still-warm corpses that we feel the full grotesquerie of these royal power games.
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Everyone major figure who participated in this grotesquerie has disgraced themselves on a level unique in the history of our republic.
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The result is a grotesquerie reminiscent of the work of the German Expressionist artists Max Beckmann, Ernst Kirchner, and Otto Dix.
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Foreman: I mean, my God — not even Reza could match the grotesquerie of what we're living through right now, I think.
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Future featuring the Weeknd "Low Life" (A1/Freebandz/Epic) The most alluring grotesquerie, with both artists at their dirtbag finest. 73.
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In the slow movement, she shifted from pale-toned lyrical stretches to bouts of chords that touched the realm of grotesquerie.
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They're against men of all different varieties, in different industries, with different sensibilities, bound together, solely, by the grotesquerie of their sexuality.
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There's the sour news, which is complicated by tangential sensations of grotesquerie and elegance, fury and poignance, and, perhaps, of philosophical insight.
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Decades after Davis pulled on a doll's dress, grotesquerie has been key to modern female comedy, as self-assertion, not self-loathing.
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It's got real moments of effective grotesquerie, albeit using the sort of body horror that's been honed to a point by countless other games.
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The tale itself often drifts away from the suspense-driven logic of conventional horror into realms of gauzy romance, surreal grotesquerie and demented trippiness.
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Saul has a quarrel with the world and he isn't above using puerile humor, ghastly bad taste, or in-your-face grotesquerie to nettle it.
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The war's proponents deploy propaganda with all the loathsome rhetoric of the white supremacist alt-right; the war's atrocities are Mengelean in scope and grotesquerie.
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His work betrays his influences—such as Edvard Munch's haunted faces, Weimar-era expressionist grotesquerie and the anthropomorphic dogs of Keith Haring—but never pastiches them.
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Instead, as soldiers who had lost legs, arms, noses and ears to frostbite stumped about the dance floors, they resulted in scenes of Goya-ish grotesquerie.
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The bodies are depicted with a horrifying, exaggerated comic grotesquerie that bears no resemblance to the realism of the previous sections dedicated to chronicling the war.
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He was described by the Philadelphia City Council as a "ghastly empty-eyed Muppet" and a "shaggy orange Wookiee-esque grotesquerie," and yet, he was soon beloved.
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The key is that, rather than use the casting for grotesquerie or sight gags, Erskine and Konkle just play it straight, drawing on memory and personal experience.
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It also has none of the grotesquerie that's often part of contemporary plays (think of Sam Shepard or Martin McDonagh or Lucy Thurber) set among the less comfortable classes.
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The movie is a good metaphor for the Trump era, when you hope that this grotesquerie is an aberration but you worry that the bad guys have already won.
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"There's a particular grotesquerie to welcoming David Frum into the Resistance but the worst part might be that the 'normal' right fueled the alt-right," a Twitter leftist mused.
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I didn't want to deal with the possibility that C.K. wasn't any different from the other rich, powerful, famous men who use women as toys or spectators to their own grotesquerie.
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When Joel decides to stand by his woman and help her procure deserving bodies to feast upon, the show reframes its Grand Guignol grotesquerie as an act of selflessness and devotion.
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Behind "The Death of Stalin" stretches a long tradition of British grotesquerie, from James Gillray's scabrous cartoons of Napoleon back to Christopher Marlowe's two-part "Tamburlaine," another litany of mass murder.
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The "Dies Irae" plainchant that runs throughout his work, as if he were a darker Rachmaninoff, is sincere and no mere colorful grotesquerie (as it is in, say, Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique").
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The Mets chairman, M. Donald Grant, an imperious stockbroker, forced Jones to bring his wife to a news conference and apologize, a moment skin-crawling in its grotesquerie and racial overtones.
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And besides, where's the grotesquerie, the vomit taste and the drunken horniness that makes Bukowski so enticing to dangerously under-repressed 19-year-old boys and so completely insufferable to millions of others?
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What pushed his novels further — what made them more than jangly carnivals of Southern grotesquerie — was how in touch Mr. Crews was with shame and resilience and life lived on the margins of society.
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The film spins from comedy to grotesquerie when it's revealed that the original housekeeper's husband has been hiding in the Parks' basement for four years, pursued by debt collectors after his small business went bust.
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Inspired by the literary grotesquerie of the writer Nikolai Gogol and the gothic fright films of the British studio Hammer, the play is about an unseen, bloodthirsty monster who noisily eats its way through a village.
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Release date: June 23 What makes it great: The Beguiled masquerades as a Southern Gothic tale, with all the requisite grotesquerie and a killer cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, and Colin Farrell.
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Beyond some effective grotesquerie and familiar horror tropes, you'll get a compelling story about protagonist Margot (The Path's Amy Forsyth), who finds a way to reconnect with her dead father (American Horror Story's John Carroll Lynch) through the house.
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In Mr. Scarlett's ballet, which is set to a commissioned score by the American composer Lowell Liebermann, the tone of the lecture theater scene is creepy (but not frightening) only because it superimposes dismemberment and grotesquerie upon conventional story ballet tropes.
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She has a portraitist's skill with tiny subtleties of expression and lighting and a New Objectivist's eye for the raw grotesquerie of bodies and their surroundings, and her illustrative technique extends from impossibly delicate hairbreadth shading to passionate marker-mashing scribbles.
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When: September 260–October 26 Where: Asya Geisberg Gallery (537 W 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) Rebecca Morgan's drawings, ceramics, and paintings are equal parts R. Crumb grotesquerie and Jan Steen humor, as she illustrates the darkness of country life in Pennsylvania.
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This year, the Philadelphia Flyers, the city's hockey team, debuted its second-ever attempt at a mascot: Gritty, a shaggy orange wookiee-esque grotesquerie who, in his first appearance on the ice, fell directly on his ass — and into America's meme-addled heart.
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Today's masks also exaggerate emotion — consider Joaquin Phoenix's award-winning Joker, his painted-on grin a grotesquerie of genuine human expression — but more frequently they conceal it, the person and his real identity hidden beneath makeup or a skin of fabric or latex.
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But in most of "The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards From the Era of World Wars," a wide-ranging show of Leonard A. Lauder's collection, donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2010, grotesquerie of content is overshadowed by ingenuity of design.
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Though never employing caricature, the work's effect updates a tradition of pointed grotesquerie that has roots in Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier and branches in the modern editorial cartoon: aesthetic pleasure checked by the absurdity or the horror—the scandal—of the subject at hand.
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Harley Quinn is a ridiculous sexist stereotype—a beautiful psychiatrist seduced to insanity by the madness of the Joker, now sucking lollipops and wearing tight-cut "Daddy's Little Monster" T-shirts—but Robbie, defying the laws of gravity, somehow finds a soul deep beneath the grotesquerie.
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While her mom — whose taste did not normally run to grotesquerie — sat in the theater laughing as if "Eraserhead" were the comedy of the year and her sibling sobbed in the lobby, Kusama stood on tippy toes, trying to glimpse the screen through the porthole window.
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The spectacular makeup of the Kalamandalam players, their brightly formal costumes, the fabulous grotesquerie of their demonic characters (and the often cacophonous din of the percussion music accompanying them): These were marvelously intense, though that music seemed to take many aback, as did the story's goriness.
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A slapdash lampoon of sexual trauma and noxious masculinity, "When We Went Electronic," written by Caitlin Saylor Stephens and directed by Meghan Finn for the Tank in Manhattan, is a show in love with its own grotesquerie, a fun house ride that's just a pile of distorting mirrors.
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The hilarious grotesquerie of these sequences hits a peak when Jackie Torrance drops by the morning after the slayings, failing at first to notice the signs of foul play (including Lola's bloody lobster apron) because she's too busy nit-picking the details Gordon got wrong in his restaging of an infamous 1929 ax murder.
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For all its slick effects and brooding burnish, the film is a by-the-numbers retread of can't-miss Alien tropes amassed over four decades of deep-space marauding: crustacean-like face-huggers, entrail-splattering chest-bursters, acid-laced alien blood — they're all here, ensconced in the appropriate H.R. Giger-esque grotesquerie that has always been the saga's visual blueprint.
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That is: a story that merited almost cartoon-character double-takes of astonishment, marked by extreme verbal descriptions like insanity, grotesquerie and depravity, grabbed, at least for the beginnings of one news cycle, a portion of media attention, before likely getting thrown into the wash of what has become the daily recitation of the gobsmacking news out of the nation's capital.
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As James McKay and Helen Johnson write in a 22012 article published in Social Identities, about what they called the "pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen," even so-called complimentary commentary about Williams's athleticism is often grounded in stereotypes about black people (animalistic and aggressive) and black women specifically (masculine, unattractive, and overly sexual at once).
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Publishers Weekly described the story as "William Burroughs-influenced squalor and grotesquerie [...] There are plenty of clever ideas here." Backcover of the collected edition.
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Many later sources omit the Tereus' tongue-cutting mutilation of Philomela altogether.According to Delany, Chaucer barely mentions it and the Chretien de Troyes omits the "grotesquerie" entirely. Delany, Sheila. The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend Of Good Women.
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Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (23 December 1874 – 30 October 1936) was an English writer. He was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies, but he is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in a style of grotesquerie and black humour.
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Like many other Japanese officers, Tojo disliked Western cultural influence in Japan, which was often disparaged as resulting in the ero-guro-nansensu ("eroticism, grotesquerie and nonsense") movement as he complained about such forms of "Western decadence" like young couples holding hands and kissing in public, which were undermining traditional values necessary to uphold the kokutai.
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Sullivan, Jack. Copyright 2014 The Carnegie Hall Corporation. The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like grotesquerie of the outer movements and the focus on individual instrumental tone colors throughout (highlighted by his use of an alto saxophone in the opening dance).Norris, New Grove, 2nd ed.
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Newsweek applauded its "black humor, powerful grotesquerie and peculiar raw beauty." The Hollywood Reporter called it "shocking, outrageous, offensive, sometimes incoherent, occasionally unintelligent. However, it is also an authentic work of movie art and Bakshi is certainly the most creative American animator since Disney." Vincent Canby of The New York Times ranked Heavy Traffic among his "Ten Best Films of 1973".
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The book takes place in the far future when interstellar flight have caused mutations in the human race. Some were minute differences, some to the point of grotesquerie. These mutations eventually lead to the cessation of interstellar flight, stranding a majority of the population away from their culture and supplies that were rooted on Earth. This causes worlds to reinvent themselves, with some coming out stronger.
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Indeed its concerns with pathology, murder, and all > sorts of country bumpkin (and urban bumpkin) grotesquerie reminds me most, > perversely, of the cheap thrills of a horror genre writer like Joe Lansdale. > More than an investigative poetics, then, Coultas has created a poetry of > archaeology. The investigative technique uncovers a vast landscape of soil, > artifacts and spirits. The authenticity of the tales, of the histories, > seems irrelevant in this light.
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Grotesquerie is a literary form that became a popular genre in the early 20th century. It can be grouped with science fiction and horror. Authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft , H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Stanton A. Coblentz, Lee Brown Coye and Katherine Anne Porter have written books within this genre. The term has also been used to describe macabre artwork and movies, and it is used in architecture.
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9706275 In later work, Hijikata continued to subvert conventional notions of dance. Inspired by writers such as Yukio Mishima (as noted above), Comte de Lautréamont, Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet and Marquis de Sade, he delved into grotesquerie, darkness, and decay. At the same time, Hijikata explored the transmutation of the human body into other forms, such as those of animals. He also developed a poetic and surreal choreographic language, , to help the dancer transform into other states of being.
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Bowater is not > Fanny's real mother; that Mr. Anon is a hunchback; that Fanny probably needs > money for an abortion; that the Reverend Crimble is going insane; and that > Miss M. thinks a bit too well of herself. It is also, as in so much James, a > book containing a considerable amount of death, violence, madness, and > grotesquerie. "The world," writes Miss M., "wields a sharp pin, and is > pitiless to bubbles."Dirda, Classics for Pleasure, p. 143.
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The three pieces are: ; Präludium (Prelude) :An instrumentally colourful, impressionistic prelude. After a murmuring introduction, an evocative, wide-ranging theme is stated by bassoons and violins, and then fully developed. ; Reigen (Round Dance) :Replete with both waltz music and Ländler music, this piece demonstrates an inherent eclecticism that, as in many of Berg's works, permitted a synthesis of old and new, classical and popular, often infused with grotesquerie. ; Marsch (March) :A sizable and highly imaginative march, notable for its element of chaos and its extremes of orchestration.
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The Guardian: 'Marina is one of those books that are meant to be devoured in one sitting; feasted upon quickly, as it will truly curb any hunger you might have had for a good read. It is a story, and an excellent one at that.'. Publishers Weekly: 'Starred Review. Zafón is a master of both the subtle simile and the outrageous image... Unlikely discoveries in mysterious, half-ruined mansions alternate with spine-tingling action sequences to create a grotesquerie that will delight horror fans.
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Newsweek wrote that the film contained 'black humor, powerful grotesquerie and peculiar raw beauty. Episodes of violence and sexuality are both explicit and parodies of flesh-and-blood porn ... a celebration of urban decay'. Roger Greenspun, of The New York Times, wrote in his 1973 review: 'People who felt that his earlier feature, Fritz the Cat, merely debased a cherished original, can now judge Bakshi's development of his own material. I think that development is as brilliant as anything in recent movies — as brilliant and, in its own improbable way, as lovely and as sad.
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Film reviewer Leslie Halliwell in Leslie Halliwell's Film Guide (1989), noted that Run for the Sun was a "... tame remake of 'The Most Dangerous Game' with Count Zaroff replaced by Lord Haw-Haw; sluggish plot development mars the action."Halliwell 1989, p. 871. Film reviewer Adrian Turner in the Time Out Film Guide (2004), said that Run for the Sun: "... never really gets to grip with the grotesquerie of the original story, though Howard as a dead ringer for Lord Haw-Haw, is excellent."Turner 2004, p. 1017.
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" China Miéville described it as "an extraordinary, troublesome, sometimes sadistic work that will shock you with its grotesquerie and sexual violence, but also, with a less uneasy tremor, with its disrespect for text. Several early pages are taken up by a musical score, but Chapter 13 is the revelation. It is structured by Jack Gaughan's full-page illustrations, around and through which words must find their way. The images are the engine, organizing what language there is, invoking awe and, on the last page, an irruption of sudden textless terror... [a] nastily visionary S.F. dystopia.
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Emerald cockroach wasp (left) "walking" a paralyzed cockroach to its burrow Kyle Munkittrick, on the Discover magazine website, writes that the great majority of aliens, far from being as strange as possible, are humanoid. Ben Guarino, in The Washington Post, observes that despite all the "cinematic aliens' gravid grotesquerie", earthly parasites have more horrible ways of life. Guarino cites parasitic wasps that lay their eggs inside living caterpillars, inspiring A. E. Van Vogt's 1939 story "Discord in Scarlet", Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters, and Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. The eponymous Alien has a "dramatic" life-cycle.
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Indeed, the departure from classical models of order, reason, harmony, balance and form opens up the risk of entry into grotesque worlds. Accordingly, British literature abounds with native grotesquerie, from the strange worlds of Spenser's allegory in The Faerie Queene, to the tragi- comic modes of 16th-century drama. (Grotesque comic elements can be found in major works such as King Lear.) Literary works of mixed genre are occasionally termed grotesque, as are "low" or non-literary genres such as pantomime and farce. Gothic writings often have grotesque components in terms of character, style and location.
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The first to occupy the tragic stage was Trissino with his Sofonisba, following the rules of the art most scrupulously, but written in sickly verses, and without warmth of feeling. The Oreste and the Rosmunda of Giovanni Rucellai were no better, nor Luigi Alamanni's Antigone. Sperone Speroni in his Canace and Giraldi Cintio in his Orbecche tried to become innovators in tragic literature, but provoked criticisms of grotesquerie and debate over the role of decorum. They were often seen as inferior to the Torrismondo of Torquato Tasso, specially remarkable for the choruses, which sometimes remind one of the chorus of the Greek tragedies.
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Douglas Wolk of The New York Times said that Ferris has a "portraitist's skill with tiny subtleties of expression and lighting and a New Objectivist's eye for the raw grotesquerie of bodies and their surroundings". The graphic novel has also been received positively by other notable comics artists. Art Spiegelman told The New York Times that Ferris is "one of the most important comics artists of our time" and that she "uses the sketchbook idea as a way to change the grammar and syntax of the comics page". The cover of the graphic novel also features praise from Chris Ware and Alison Bechdel.
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Translated in Edogawa, Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Mirrors, lenses, and other optical devices appear in many of Edogawa's other early stories, such as "The Hell of Mirrors". Although many of his first stories were primarily about sleuthing and the processes used in solving seemingly insolvable crimes, during the 1930s, he began to turn increasingly to stories that involved a combination of sensibilities often called "ero guro nansensu", from the three words "eroticism, grotesquerie, and the nonsensical". The presence of these sensibilities helped him sell his stories to the public, which was increasingly eager to read his work.
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Cooper awarded the novel a score of four out of five. Kirkus Reviews found that the "fast-paced plot gradually moves the reader from recognizable reality into a neverland of impossible characters and larger-than-life evildoers", concluding that "for the lovers of nonstop action and understated British humor, this will be a satisfying page-turner. Unpretentiously unpredictable". Children's book reviewer, Inis Magazine, found that "in this mixture between 'problem novel' ... and Dahlesque novel of the grotesque, with a humanised version of 101 Dalmatians thrown in for good measure, Bateman creates a strange juxtaposition of pathos, comedy and shocking grotesquerie".
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Known for her finely wrought detail and lush sensuality, New York Magazine called Reopel "an artisan as well as an artist," while praising her renderings of the figure because "[t]he artist seems consistently to search out that which lies behind the physical trait. And having discovered it, she presents it in whispers, with unusual understatement and economy." The results range from expressive realism to subtle surrealism and outright grotesquerie. A student of sculptor Leonard Baskin at the Worcester Art Museum School, then known as the “Mini-Met,” Reopel shared his fascination with the human form, and his interest in fine arts printing, woodcut, sculpture, etching and typography.
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The artist eschewed his traditional training and instead of creating smooth, well-thrown glazed vessels he started to work gesturally with raw clay, frequently marring his work with gashes and punctures. In 1954, after founding the art ceramics department at the Otis College of Art and Design, called the Los Angeles County Art Institute, his work rapidly became abstract and sculptural. In 1959, he presented for the first time his heavy ceramics during the exhibition at the Landau Gallery in Los Angeles. This created a seismic reaction in the ceramics world, both for the grotesquerie of the sculptures' shapes and the genius marriage of arts and craft, and accelerated his transfer to UC Berkeley.
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That such strangeness is indeed intrinsic to Coover's worlds is shown by the frequency of its manifestations and by characters' lack of surprise at these." In this short story, Robert Coover utilizes "a range of polyvalent grotesquerie." Depending on "each reader's mental make-up, which in turn rests on ideologies and beliefs" outside Coover's control, the readers can interpret having sexual intercourse in front of others as indecent and killing a person based on racism is wrong or vice versa. Hume also asserts that the "instability of values also interferes with most readers' satisfaction, because they tend to like works they feel they have conquered and Coover's permit no such self-congratulation.
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Some social scientists have argued that the most negative reactions to Williams' on-court fashion statements, especially in newspaper coverage of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, combines with writers' fixation upon her muscular body to distract from her on-court accomplishments and fit this commentary within centuries-old narratives of the "pornographic eroticism" and "sexual grotesquerie" of African and African-American women. Williams formerly had a special line with Puma. In April 2004, she signed a deal worth US$40million for a line with Nike. Since 2004, she has also run her own line of designer apparel, "Aneres"—her first name spelled backward. In 2009, she launched a signature collection of handbags and jewelry.
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Mexican film critic Marco González Ambriz called the film "magnificent" and a must-see "for anyone interested in the cinematic avant-garde", although he also noted that many viewers would likely find the film unbearable. Reviewing the film for arts and culture magazine Film Comment gave the film significant praise, calling the opening sequence "a triumph of lyrical grotesquerie", and compared the film to the avant-garde works of Maya Deren, and Stan Brakhage. The film was not without its detractors. Author and independent filmmaker John Kenneth Muir awarded the film a mixed rating of two and a half out of a possible four stars, calling it "an experimental, one-of-a-kind cinematic experience".
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Jared Richardson's Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women's Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism assesses how the aesthetic functions as a space for black women to engage with the intersection of topics such as race, gender, and sexuality. The representation and treatment of black female bodies is deconstructed by Afrofuturist contemporaries and amplified to alien and gruesome dimensions by artists such as Wangechi Mutu and Shoshanna Weinberger. Beyoncé's 2016 short film Lemonade included feminist afrofuturism in its concept. The film featured music duo Ibeyi, artist Laolu Senbanjo, actresses Amandla Stenberg, Quvenzhané Wallis, and Zendaya, as well as YouTube singing stars Chloe x Halle, ballet dancer Michaela DePrince, and 2015 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Serena Williams, and the sophisticated womanist poetry of Somali-British writer Warsan Shire.
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"Greenwich grotesquerie", The Burlington Magazine 137 No. 1112 (November 1995:719); the occasion was the Ministry of Defense and the Department of National Heritage's issuance of a glossy brochure through estate agents soliciting long-term leases for Wren's Old Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. It is now largely used to display the Museum's substantial collection of marine paintings and portraits of the 17th to 20th centuries, and for other public and private events. It is normally open to the public daily, free of charge, along with the other museum galleries and the 17th-century Royal Observatory, Greenwich, which is also part of the National Maritime Museum. In 2012, the grounds behind the Queen's House were used to house a stadium for the equestrian events of the Olympic Games.
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In terms of film practice, it shows a young man using various newly available film technologies and innovative techniques, including "static long takes with monologues; extended passages of black screen; fish-eye distortions; [and] lateral travellings that offer Arbus-like views of everyday grotesquerie." It shows David using these techniques in making a diary film, a format that is technically simple and affordable—a natural option for young creative filmmakers with limited resources. One such young filmmaker at the time was Brian De Palma, who said that: > When I first got my 8mm sound camera, I'd carry it around like David Holzman > and try to film everything I did and look at it. My friends and I had > cameras all the time and we were all film directors.
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" Readers, as repressed and submissive human beings, tend to resist, flee, and fear the attitudes and myths of age, death, and other aspects of life; Hume indicated that, "By yoking the gross or upsetting with the ordinary, the comic with the tragic, Coover forces awareness of the cultural limits we have sublimated." Therefore, Coover "breaks the mechanisms of repression, reintroduces awareness of our submission, and tries to awaken us to the nature of our situation." Coover's grotesquerie is evidenced in "In Bed One Night" by the whitehaired lady's explanation of the shortage private beds—a luxury to the world in the story. Readers of In Bed One Night, with knowledge of their society, suddenly enter into a world of fantasy; as a result, they shift their gears into thinking in a broader perspective—"the widening of frames.
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John Updike, comparing Abner to a "hillbilly Candide", added that the strip's "richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean".Exile in Dogpatch: The Curious Neglect of Cartoonist Al Capp, City Journal, Spring 2010 Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes,Spotlight on Daniel Clowes, CBR 18 October 2010 and (reportedly) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li'l Abner. Li'l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published. Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire by Arthur Asa Berger (Twayne, 1969) contained serious analyses of Capp's narrative technique, his use of dialogue, self-caricature, and grotesquerie, the place of Li'l Abner in American satire, and the significance of social criticism and the graphic image.
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Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called Švankmajer a "grand master not just of innovative animation techniques but of life itself", and wrote that the director "is at the height of his filmmaking powers as director, artistic director and storyteller here." Young also noted, however, that the film's complex narrative and unconventional imagery "will not be everyone's cup of tea." Variety's Leslie Felperin complimented the chemistry between Helšus and Issová, and noted how the film was more similar to Czech mainstream comedies than what normally would be expected from the director: "For all the grotesquerie on display (and there's hardly anything here as disturbing as Svankmajer's imagery in Alice from 1988), pic feels much lighter in tone than the helmer's last few films, such as Lunacy, Greedy Guts (aka Little Otik), or Conspirators of Pleasure." Švankmajer won the Czech Lion for Best Art Direction for the film.
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McGuinness is as well known for his play adaptations as for his original plays. He has adapted classics by Sophocles, Racine, Ibsen, Valle-Inclan, or Lorca, as well as short works by Strindberg and Pirandello, a short story by James Joyce, and novels by Stoker and Du Maurier. His ability to distill the raw force from classic Greek drama, in particular, has been noted by critics. He sometimes takes noticeable liberties in his adaptations, in order to strengthen characterisation—for example by making the alienated protagonist of 'Rebecca' into an Anglo-Irish woman from a once privileged family—or to underline the theme of the play—for example in 'Rebecca' "I've invented a scene in which Mrs Danvers confronts Max and says, 'You loved her, but she didn't love you'", or in 'Barbaric Comedies', a play about a world of amoral grotesquerie, he added a sexual assault scene.
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