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Pixar’s making a movie about a girl! The animation company announced its schedule through 2012
and not one, but two of their films will feature females. Harping on
Pixar for not having made a movie with a female heroine sooner,
especially when I’m still high on Up! (just as Meghan is), feels a little like ragging on Jackson Pollack for not painting straight lines. Still, it’s exciting news.
The first film, Newt, out in 2011, imagines... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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As Nina pointed out last week, and the Times pointed out over the weekend, Disney's The Princess and The Frog, its first animated feature to star a black heroine, Tiana, is already controversial, and it doesn't come out until December. Watching the trailer for it on the big screen over the weekend (it's playing before Pixar's totally awesome Up!) got me thinking about another potential source of contention: Tiana's voice... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Here in XX-ville, we've long been fascinated by American Girl,
the upscale doll company—excuse me, "premiere lifestyle brand"—that
sells morals and history lessons alongside its hundred-dollar dolls
(and their similarly expensive pinafores, trestle tables, chifferobes,
and other painstakingly detailed accouterments). The New York Times ran an article this weekend about Rebecca Rubin, the newest American Girl,
which (who?) goes on sale this Sunday. The piece describes the years of
work and research that went into creating Rebecca—not just so that
she'd be historically accurate, but also so that she'd be culturally
sensitive. For example: Since "Jewish" is a religious category and not
a racial one, what should a Jewish doll look like?... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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