Cenate Pruitt
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Yes.
Also, the fact that the term uses "mommy", a kind of diminutive, belittling term, is probably significant. There's "mothers" and there's "mommies." Mothers are to be championed and lionized and rewarded with their o ... -
Tumblr fandoms are incredibly interesting to me.
I've followed my fandoms of choice as they've moved over the years from decentralized mailing lists to USENET to Livejournal and now on to Tumblr, and what's most interesting to me is how democratized content production has become. Fifteen ... -
I think we've already seen some of that product-placement...
I'm thinking specifically about Chuck and the very intentional integration of Subway sandwiches into the later seasons (and on another level, about Community's kind of snide take on it. ... -
I got a vague "Do the Right Thing" vibe from it.
Maybe "angry young people with giant boom box threaten shopkeeper" is on my brain today. I do find it striking how the tone of "children's" animation has changed in the last decade or so towards character death. Ma and Pa Shopkee ... -
I got ya.
And I agree completely- the Shrek product (and I use that term intentionally) focused on the "adult" jokes to the point where it became snide and yet trite at the same time. I feel the same way about Family Guy. Perhaps this is what separate ... -
In retrospect, a point I wish I had brought up...
Cliffjumper was voiced, albeit briefly, by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, a bit of stunt casting that helps strike the balance between "30 minute toy commercial for kids" and "action program for adults." By coupling the characte ... -
I think voice casting as a
I think voice casting as a promotional tool depends on the project and the casting- the use of, say, Taylor Swift in a Dreamworks film targeted to adolescents is a hook to that audience, but it isn't necessarily intertextual, unless Swift is playing ... -
I'm seriously debating using excerpts from '50 Shades'
Next time I teach Gender & Society. Not so much because I think it's a great book or even an interesting one, but because of the 'hate' towards it. A book that, for all its myriad flaws, seems to have kindled (no pun intended) a social ... -
There was a similar
There was a similar conversation to this one a while back at the Transformers Wiki, about what rights the editors of a wiki dedicated to a popular licensed franchise have vis-a-vis the owners of the property. One user compared it to a sort of "digit ...