“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.”
Superhero Fatigue… or, Does the Genre Even Benefit the Medium Where it Started?
July 26, 2012 by
Superheroes: Bigger Than Ever or Industry Obstacle—or Both?
How NOT To Teach Bestselling Books and Comics, or Hollywood Blockbusters
July 17, 2012 by
Years ago media literacy educators noticed something dismaying: kids were becoming downright cynical. Healthy skepticism had been replaced with a kind of universal suspicion. Today, some teachers might like to revive that approach…
Movie Review: “The Avengers” Is So Geekily Good It May Convert Some Viewers Into Geeks
May 2, 2012 by
“The Avengers” derives its fun from the very things that could have doomed it…