Monthly Archives: June 2012
Princess Merida leaps from the clutches of killjoys and escapes unscathed. Confounding the shaky expectations for girl-centric animation, Pixar’s Brave attracted eager support from all quadrants, young and old, male and female. The audience for Brave this weekend was 57% younger than 25 and 43% over 25; 43% male and 57% female. (Think for a moment how different...
Richard Rushfield, writing on Rushfield Babylon, talks about the Backlash Era, citing Twitter as the main vehicle, when it began, how it continues to chew away at the edges of all that is sane and holy: The turning point came in early 2011. We can date the birth of the backlash era to the brief period when Twitter claimed two skulls, bringing down journalist Nir Rosen for...
