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Before you tune into Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, check out our coverage of the stars of this year’s show.
This year’s picks reflect what most cinephiles already know: streaming is the last nail in the coffin in the shift away from cinema to television.
Before a revolution can take place, the oppressed first have to recognize that they actually do not have many rights.
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
The Barbie movie has caused a media storm, even before the photo of the pink-clad Canadian PM and his son circulated on social media. Much of the conversation has zoned in on men and masculinity.
Movie tickets are nearly always the same price, whether the film is a flop or a sold-out blockbuster. Why? And how much more does a trip to the movies cost than 20 years ago?
What would you do if the industry you work in could clone your skills, style and even the way you look and sound?
The temptation to cash in on a global phenomenon might be strong. But Mattel has a history of fiercely protecting the Barbie brand with legal action.
Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
In bringing Barbie to life, Gerwig, Robbie and their team have created a smart, enjoyable, feminist film.
As the supporting player to Barbie’s star, Ken unwittingly becomes the locus of little girls’ expectations of and frustrations with masculinity.
Are you for or against Barbie? Writer-director Greta Gerwig piles irony upon irony to finally render the question completely redundant.
Barbie has had over 200 official careers. Often decked out in her signature pink, the doll has showed generations that they do not have to sacrifice their love of femininity in order to succeed.
While the film obviously appeals to women, it is men who really need to watch it.
Clever marketing of the “Barbie” movie and related merchandise have secured this iconic brand even greater recognition and financial success.
Barbie is an icon of nostalgia — but she’s also a forerunner of the metaverse.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, has had a unique career, moving quickly from in front of the camera to behind it - with great success.
Once the context of cultural and territorial appropriation by China in Southeast Asia are understood, Vietnam’s ban of the Barbie movie isn’t surprising.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Fulbright Scholar and SweAmfo Research Fellow at USC School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Music, Rice University
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Lecturer, Fashion Enterprise, RMIT University
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Composer and Lecturer in Screen Composition, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Theatre, College of the Holy Cross
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Chair of Academic Board, Victoria University
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of International Law, Australian National University
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Lecturer (Teaching), Faculty of Arts & Humanities, UCL
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Professor of History, Michigan State University
