If Pixar is truly a cutting-edge animation studio, why did Brave take seventeen years?
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Archive for July, 2012
Brave: Changing Our Fate
2012 Flow Conference Call for Responses
The Flow Conference Committee is accepting roundtable response submissions through July 13.
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What Bill Nye Should Have Said
The problem with Carol Costello and other purveyors of manufactroversies is not that they are engaging in debate about climate change, but that they're debating the wrong thing.
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The 2012 BET Awards as [Black] Family Reunion
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Its the pairing of disrepute with respectability that makes the BET Awards akin to a Black Family reunion.
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Outing Anderson: Our Cultural Coming Out Imperative
Anderson Cooper addressed his sexuality in a letter that demonstrates a new, old reason to come out: to break down invisibility and become a model for queer youth.
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Diet by Disney?
The new "Mickey Check" logo for "Disney-approved" licensed food and beverage products is merely a new take on an old (and problematic) approach.
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Gazes, Pleasure, and the Failure of Magic Mike
Though it's marketed as a film that promotes the female gaze, Magic Mike's message is a reprimand and a ridicule of the very women whose money it desperately seeks.
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A Reflection on Rodney King and the Poignancy of Satire
Upon Rodney King's passing, we can remember In Living Color's commentary on police brutality, King's trial, the L. A. Uprising, and how satire makes cultural ugliness palatable.
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor
Studying representation was my way into media studies. But laborers aren't working from a script and we can't always visualize the lived realities of their work.
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