It was by no means a sure thing that Star Wars’ innovative beginning endured until the modern day. Here’s the story of its various scrapes with the wrecking ball.
‘I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations. And this is my counterpart R2-D2.’
Gordon Tarpley
Characters are designed to respond to specific concerns relative to time and context. But as we move deeper into the 21st century, what are those concerns, and how do they differ from those in the 20th century?
Women – and little girls even more so – are desperate to see images and stories that don’t actively oppress them onscreen.
Nadia Meli
Some time ago my then five-year-old goddaughter began insistently and, it must be said, somewhat repetitively humming a few bars that would quickly become one of the world’s most ubiquitous earworms. As…
Did watching 101 Dalmatians instill you with a burning desire to fill your home with dozens of monochrome puppies? A new study suggests that may often be the case. The research suggests that all those…