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Most of these television specials were made between the 1960s and 1970s, building stories on inappropriate and sometimes outright offensive tropes. But one Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Jack Frost, actually axes a troubling trope, making it a timeless classic that both women and men can enjoy....
As the anime medium is both created by and typically for Japanese audiences, it stands to reason that most titles will have few if any overlaps with Western or cowboy movies, which have their own common sets of tropes and themes. Nonetheless, given the medium's wide range of influences ...
support victims are never addressed. The camera lingers in a way that questions whether we should be sickened or titillated. Victims are almost always to blame, and dangerously inaccurate or unfair tropes about what makes a person safe or innocent are strengthened.What is this really adding to ...
among tv's mishandling of lgbtq+ inclusion and continued use of damaging tropes, wynonna earp stands out as an important and groundbreaking series. with 2023 resulting in the cancelation of many lgbtq+-centered tv shows, the newly announced wynonna earp special is much-needed good news for both...
Hughes makes use of a number of ghost story tropes in this first episode: dripping taps, a black and white photograph ripped down the middle, an old mill, and plenty of howling wind. That’s not to say that the story is as obvious as the devices used. In fact, after this first epis...
Big Mouth, for all its themes and hard lessons, is the best comedy of 2018 because it’s also clever as hell, relentless in its gross-out gags and pop culture references, and is inventive in its subversion of topics and schoolyard tropes that have been done to death on broadcast and ca...
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