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Something to Consider on the Eve of Comic-Con: Cosplay and Critical Thinking
"We can look at cosplay as a medium that assists other media, anime and manga, by targeting a certain audience segment related to fandom."
Confessions of a Cosplaying Librarian
"The key idea is actually a media literacy one related to representation: no one in real life actually looks like an anime or manga character."
Now in Theaters: An Absolutely Must-See Doc About Digital Literacy
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback's work represents a treasure trove of ideas for those who want to connect domestic spying and the death of privacy to civics, media studies, ICT, and political theory—not to mention information literacy and digital literacy specifically.
Big Brawlers and Little Children: The Not-New Appeal of ‘Pacific Rim’
The reason such overt silliness is nonetheless so effective is that we all connect with the fantasy of controlling a creature much, much larger than we could ever hope to be.
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...
Gris Grimly's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus: Assembled From the Original Text by Mary Shelley in Three Volumes
Gr 7 Up—Shelley's Frankenstein can be considered a lot of things; easy reading is not one of them...
Monsieur Albert Rides to Glory
Gr 3–4—When Albert, an elderly Parisian cyclist, decides to enter a local race, he finds himself up against handsome young François, who looks more like he belongs in a boy band than on a bike...
The Sleepwalkers
Gr 4 Up—Three sheep have been rescuing children from their own nightmares for a lifetime...
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