Can pop culture overcome stereotypes about women, and give us more complex female anti-heroes? Given the rise of popular male anti-heroes in television and film, Alyssa Rosenberg thinks that evil stepmothers and fairy-tale villainesses could be a good way to give female protagonists a similar role. Shows like Mad Men or Breaking Bad or The […]
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Much has been made of fans “demanding” a new ending to BioWare’s Mass Effect 3. The line we’ve seen drawn in the sand by industry and media types in the gaming sphere is that a new ending would threaten the “artistic integrity” of the work, its creators, and the gaming industry itself. Alyssa Rosenberg makes […]
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Alyssa Rosenberg says there’s no reason so many of our science fiction movies should be set on . It’s just a blank slate for an alien planet – any alien planet – and too few of the films and novels that use it only do so as a prop rather than as a real place. John […]
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