Throughout human history, the labor of civil rights has been done by the oppressed. In disability advocacy especially, disability representation and media have been amplified, and critiqued, by the Disability Visibility Project. It is also the assertion of this community…
Review of Donna Kornhaber, Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. When one thinks about wartime animated films, propaganda film comes to most people’s mind. Indeed, since the 1990s, studies in animated propaganda developed…
When no film was in production, Alosha was busy engraving, while Claire was busy with the minutiae of daily housekeeping. Both read a lot. He knew Russian, French, German, and English. She knew English and French and had learned Russian…
I met Alexandre Alexeïeff at the Abano Terme Animation Festival (Italy) in the spring of 1971. He was standing in front of the cinema hall, solemn and gracious at the same time. I introduced myself and he greeted me warmly.…
In the short documentary, Nobody’s Metaphor (2019), Chouette Films worked with Maslaha to capture the unfolding stories of a group of Muslim girls and young women of color who try out fencing and poetry workshops after school. These workshops, run…
Reminiscent of magical girl anime, Adora’s transformation into She-Ra (in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, 2018-2020) serves an empowering function by way of a stylistic and physiological change. Her transformation sequence borrows from two types of transformation made popular…
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…
It has been several weeks since I finished watching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020). As with so many things in 2020, it feels a lot longer, and in that time I have reflected on how much there is…
In interviews she gave for the launch of the Netflix/DreamWorks series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018—2020), showrunner Noelle Stevenson made the point repeatedly: the new She-Ra would be the same, but different. From the beginning, the show was…
In 2020, the fifth and final season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020) was released on Netflix. Headed by showrunner and Eisner award-winner Noelle Stevenson, She-Ra has received wide praise amongst fans and critics for its riveting storylines…
