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Oh, All That Annoying Movie Marketing: A Chat with Critic Eric D. Snider
"Young people are pretty savvy about marketing...They don't consider something 'bad' or 'annoying' just because it's marketing, the way many of us in the previous generation did."
The Pop Culture Propaganda of Ender’s Game, Pacific Rim, and G.I. Joe
These posters' apparently value-free aspect is perhaps what's most worth exploring with young people...
‘World War Z’ At the Movies: Some Critical Thinking Questions
Media literacy discussion points covering novel-to-film adaptations, marketing, genre, screen violence, and more.
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‘Tiger Eyes’ and Transliteracy: Confessions of Someone Who Hasn’t Read the Novel
'Tiger Eyes' is not really an upbeat film—which is, oddly, what makes it so refreshing.
‘Super Pop!’ and Making (Extremely Fun) Connections Across Media
Quick, what do these have in common... the 'dingy basements' in 'Fight Club' (the film), the video game Flower, a couple of novels by Harumi Murakami and E.L. Konigsburg, the bathroom in HBO’s 'Girls,' Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s 'Empire State of Mind,' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'?
BEA, Famous Authors, and Why We’re All Guilty of Promoting ‘Celebrity Culture’
I guess there was some cosplay going on, but most participating attendees chose to dress up as publishing executives for some reason.
Doctor Who… Librarian?
... the gateway to countless worlds of pure fancy intentionally looks pedestrian—one has to transcend the importance of “surface” to be rewarded with the riches that lie beneath.
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