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"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."
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.
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.
"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."
These posters' apparently value-free aspect is perhaps what's most worth exploring with young people...
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.
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