Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions.
We proceed on the assumption that the others we are interpreting live in the same world as we do.We subvert this assumption, however, if we attribute to them beliefs that substantially differ from our own.
The moment reflects the filmmaking goals of its director, Ti West, who has spent his relatively brief career subverting the assumptions of horror fans.
The resulting films — 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 and now "49 Up" — have confirmed, complicated and in some cases subverted the assumptions of that first inquiry, which promised a glimpse of Britain's future.
But I always thought Murphy subverted these assumptions made about his character.
His career has been one long effort to subvert our safe assumptions about puzzles, to make them as unsettling and unpredictable as art.
Undergraduate art education students should be willing to subvert their own assumptions regarding applications of digital technologies.
Properties of these tumours subvert the working assumptions derived from the aforementioned studies in many important ways.
Just as Ethan feels like Wayward Pines should be familiar and benign because of its pastoral suburban setting, viewers are lulled into a sense that they know what is going to happen, only to see those assumptions subverted by surprising twists and strange choices.
Lomu may have been rugby's first genuine international superstar, but it was his ability to subvert the tired old assumptions of postcolonial New Zealand that made him truly special.
