Tag: Media stereotypes
How the new ‘Aladdin’ stacks up against a century of Hollywood...
Evelyn Alsultany, University of Southern California
Though critically acclaimed and widely beloved, the 1992 animated “Aladdin” feature had some serious issues with stereotyping.
Disney wanted to...
With a limited on-screen presence, autistic characters have emerged in another...
Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine and Rebecca Black, University of California, Irvine
In one Harry Potter fan fiction story, Hermione Granger anxiously awaits the...
Anthony Bourdain’s window into Africa
Jacob Henry, University of Hawaii
Anthony Bourdain might have been a celebrity chef, but viewers of his Emmy Award-winning travel show, “Parts Unknown,” didn’t tune...
The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
I’m not the first to say that the upcoming Marvel movie...
How TV cultivates authoritarianism – and helped elect Trump
James Shanahan, Indiana University and Michael Morgan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
