Not just a formalist, Ms. Akerman also takes on hot-button themes like racism in the American South, illegal immigration in the Southwest and a terrorism in the Mideast.
But in future episodes, what we'll be left with is a touchy-feely magic-child story with a science-fiction angle, incorporating current hot-button themes like neural disorders and (in the pilot) cellphone radiation, while throwing around trendy geek talismans like Fibonacci numbers.
Anna Boghiguian, an Egyptian-born artist, who, like Lubaina Himid, has received a burst of attention comparatively late in her career, has a fierce wall of text and pastel drawings showing at Sfeir Semler, touching on hot-button themes of institutional racism and white privilege.
"How the World Began," presented by the Women's Project and directed with a keen focus on the specificity of character by Daniella Topol, has a topical hot-button theme in the conflicting ideologies of confirmed secularists and faithful believers.
The hot-button topic of gay marriage is the running theme of "Some Men," with the attendant questions that the subject invariably raises.
Biodiversity is not a hot-button topic.
It's a hot-button topic".
It has also been a hot-button topic.
Among politicians, immigration is still a hot-button topic.
"Bordertown" cracks wise on the hot-button topic of immigration.
This has become something of a hallmark for Mr. Perrotta, who has developed a knack for combining hot-button cultural themes (electoral corruption in "Election," mommy-and-me despair and vigilante justice in "Little Children") with flawed and complicated characters.
