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How Your Favorite Netflix Series Was Translated Into English | Interview with Thomas Grathwol

What was the last Netflix series you watched? Was it in a foreign language? A recent study by Ampere Analysis found that more people are…
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Hollywood Diversity Acting Report

Hollywood diversity has come a long way, and many social movements such as Black Lives Matter, and Stop Asian Hate have brought awareness to ongoing…
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Female Directors 2: the women who maintain the Big Voice

In the mid-late summer of 2023, something big happened. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” premiered, scooping us up into Barbie-land, and putting us back down wearing pink…
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Female Directors: The first women with the Big Voice

What comprises a great female director is the same recipe for what comprises a great director. So must we look at female directors within their…
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Whitewashing in Media: How Whitewashing Negatively Affects People Of Color

When you look at the films and television shows you watch, do you see someone who you can relate to and whose experiences are similar…
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Female Rage in Horror: why we want it, why we need it

The angry female figures of the past were feared and hated, in the likeness of Medusa or the common witch. This rejected figure has been…
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A Look at the History of Trans Representation in Media with Zoey Luna

Early portrayals of trans characters that I can remember were generally based on stereotypes and pathologization, and while the last decade or so has since…
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The Increased Inclusion of Women in Entertainment and how that Shifts the Focus

A little over five years since the MeToo Movement and the most recent statistics on an industry long known for its 'boys club' mentality certainly…
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From the Film Industry to the Independent Filmmaking Sphere

Expanding on a previous article I published, I am joined by Kayla Abuda Galang, a second-generation Filipino American filmmaker, to understand the Asian American experience…
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Horror & Corporatized Feminism, part 3

Simply Men Bob Clark’s 1974 horror masterpiece Black Christmas has been remade twice: once in 2006 by Glen Morgan and again in 2019 as a…
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