No pain, no gain is an unacknowledged Fashion Week theme.
The unacknowledged subject of Hairspray is sexual, not racial anxiety.
Counting Kathryn Bigelow among its executive producers (this restates the unacknowledged torture-creates-chaos themes of Zero Dark Thirty), Cartel Land is overtly dramatic fare that boasts both nerve-racking, ground-level combat scenes and elegiac aerial footage of the no-man's-land around the US/Mexico border.
Their chiller, set in contemporary Spain, is involving and disturbing, and revives the genre's great theme: our profound yet unacknowledged fear of children.
In his Guardian review of The Orphanage, Peter Bradshaw wrote: "[It] revives the genre's great theme: our profound yet unacknowledged fear of children.
The modern city as unacknowledged palimpsest might seem a familiar theme, were it not renovated by Julius's attention to the contemporary, in particular to those in danger of becoming modern victims of prosperous urban forgetfulness or carelessness.
This theme, of the unwanted or unacknowledged child, burns fiercely in Zvyagintsev's work.
The unacknowledged or suppressed sexuality of men's sports are recurring themes in Mr. Barney's work.
The possibility that Victor Frankenstein's problems may have their source in his unrequited, even unacknowledged, attraction to his Oxford chum is the one wholly post-Romantic theme Ackroyd adds to the story.
And talking of Dostoyevsky, I was disappointed to see that no prizes were given to Sergei Loznitsa's A Gentle Creature (loosely inspired by a Dostoyevsky short story), perhaps because there is an unacknowledged convention that there can be no more than one harrowing Russian-themed film on the prize list.
It is on these rough edges that many multiracial people live, and where many artists find the themes that animate their work: the limits of tolerance, hidden or unacknowledged assumptions about identity, and issues of racial privilege and marginalization.
