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Oh, All That Annoying Movie Marketing: A Chat with Critic Eric D. Snider
| Media Literacy, Movies, New Media, Print Media, Television
"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
| English, Media Literacy, Movies, Print Media, Social Studies, Transliteracy
These posters' apparently value-free aspect is perhaps what's most worth exploring with young people...
Moriarty, Hannibal, and Despicable Me: How We End Up Rooting for the Bad Guy
| Comics, English, Media Literacy, Movies, Television, Transliteracy
It's okay to find the villain appealing in certain respects—in fact, much of pop culture depends on our doing just that.
Media literacy discussion points covering novel-to-film adaptations, marketing, genre, screen violence, and more.
More than just a craze, the interest in zombies points the way towards a new kind of literacy engagement.
Both curriculum and pop culture, perhaps not coincidentally, have no problem dealing with class systems when they’re at a remove.
'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
| Comics, English, Movies, Print Media, Social Studies, Television, Transliteracy
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'?
I guess there was some cosplay going on, but most participating attendees chose to dress up as publishing executives for some reason.
... 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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