This adult-friendly cartoon packs a wonderful array of important messages: environmental, anti-consumerist, grassroots revolution and relationship building. Alas, patriarchy and consumerism slip in, too. It has some great gender statements as well, and a few disappointments. WALL·E’s character is not overly gendered – he has a male voice, but also carries precious cargo in his [...]
Filed under: movies on July 25th, 2008 by Anna Lisa | 5 Comments »
!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> This fairly ridiculous film includes a barrage of violent sexual messages. The movie isn’t scary, but the sexualization of a young girl is horrific. Sexual violence is made light of, to some extent, as she tells her mother “fu*k me” [...]
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Byron Hurt’s documentary I read novels, and fall asleep to non-fiction. I’d pick a Christopher Guest mockumentary over a documentary any day. But Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes was engaging and entertaining, exploring masculinity, misogyny, homophobia and objectification in hip hop music and videos. Filmmaker Byron Hurt’s appreciation and respect for hip hop is [...]
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