And they seem to be consciously evoking a notion of glamour.

The short films that he calls "Interrotron Stories" consciously evoke Edgar Allan Poe.

Yet like the film it sometimes consciously evokes, Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," which earned mixed reviews and unexceptional box-office returns in its initial release, "Ripley" will attract at the very least a passionate cult.

In addition, the music's expressive content requires a sense of a long musical tradition; in the Ninth Symphony, in fact, Mahler seemed to have been consciously evoking a sense of that tradition's end.

Mr. Sondheim's career is also something of a lasting tribute to the great Broadway songwriters who preceded him, many of whom he consciously evokes in his scores.

Like Joe Buck of "Midnight Cowboy," which Mr. Arteta consciously evokes with his hero's first bus ride, Carlos thinks charm and a can-do attitude are enough to get him anywhere.

Ridley Scott consciously evoked the designs of Sant'Elia in Blade Runner.

The Black Stars, their name consciously evoking the deeds of Marcus Garvey, brought glory and attention to the newly emerging nation.

Another long-established chamber series, the Music Mountain Summer Music Festival, consciously evokes its early-20th century roots.

As they do, Bogosian consciously evokes a comprehensive, personal overview of the American psyche.