“A stunning big-screen comedy-adventure.”[i] This enthusiastic advertising description does not refer to a Marvel superhero film, or an action-adventure franchise like Pirates of the Caribbean, or not even to the highly successful Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015).…
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Needles in Haystacks: Genre in Contemporary American Television Animation
by David Perlmutter • April 22, 2016 • 1 Comment
Trying to talk seriously about American television animation is a difficult thing to do. You can’t talk to people about these shows if they haven’t seen them, and usually, especially if they do not have children or a television set,…