With the debut of its fifth and final season in May 2020, Dreamworks Animation’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020) made history as another children’s animated series with explicit queer representation. Led by queer creator Noelle Stevenson and a…
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The ‘A’ Stands for Animation: HBO Max, WarnerMedia, and Curating Streaming Animation
by Jacqueline Ristola • June 8, 2020 • 3 Comments
When BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) was first announced, it made news as the first adult animated original programming for Netflix. I recall at the time that there was a certain amount of hoopla around this—not just for being adult-oriented animation (which…
“Frozen II” and the Material Necessity of Decolonization
by Jacqueline Ristola • January 13, 2020 • 1 Comment
I have seen Frozen II (2019) twice now. I think it is pretty great, yet, I have been quite disappointed in the number of bad takes on the film. Many critics have pegged the film as a retread of Frozen…