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The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, TV, Games, Anime, Manga, and Comics. THE MAINSTREAM EFFECT OF SNL THE ROLE OF “CELEBRITY ANIMALS” 1 day ago · The Role of "Celebrity Animals" What can "celebrity animals" — like Dolly (the cloned sheep), Tilikum (the killer whale), or even the octopus who gained fame on the Netflix Original, My Octopus Teacher — tell us about "the human socially constructed natural world" as Nick Couldry calls it? MIDDLESEX AND THE PURSUIT OF IDENTITY Middlesex and the Pursuit of Identity Identity is a prominent theme shown in Middlesex. Following the success of his debut novel, Jeffrey Eugenides wrote Middlesex, a story centered on Calliope Stephanides, chronicling the lives of the three generations of the Stephanides family.. Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex COMMON THEMES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS Common Themes in Psychological Thrillers. Warning: This article includes spoilers for numerous films.. It must be quite difficult to create a truly spellbinding psychological thriller, given the difficult task of creating genuine thought-provoking suspense without delving too deeply into the realm of campy melodrama. FAIRY TALES: HOW THEY HAVE CHANGED OVER TIME Fairy tales: How They Have Changed Over Time. Everyone throughout their childhood is usually told the classic fairy tales that install a sense of morals in the child e.g. Beauty and the Beast is the story of a young earl being transformed into a beast and his servants to household items for his selfishness in rejecting an old beggar shelterfor the night.
THE ULTIMATE GENDER STEREOTYPES IN FRIENDS The Ultimate Gender Stereotypes in Friends. As good as Friends was it still portrayed its wonderful characters as gender stereotypes, as most sit-coms do, of course, but they very cleverly split these steroetypical traits and spread them across the six main characters. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE? BERTHA MASON: A 21ST CENTURY WOMAN TRAPPED IN 1847 Bertha Mason is definitely the most interesting character in Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea was a fantastic “prequel”, shall we say. Whilst Victorian men undoubtedly desired women to be the “angels of the house”, I think it’s a little harsh to throw “most 21st century men” into the same category (that is, assuming we’re talking about Western-cultured men?). 5 MUST-WATCH SCANDINAVIAN TV SHOWSTHE ARTIFICE
The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, TV, Games, Anime, Manga, and Comics. THE MAINSTREAM EFFECT OF SNL MIDDLESEX AND THE PURSUIT OF IDENTITY Middlesex and the Pursuit of Identity Identity is a prominent theme shown in Middlesex. Following the success of his debut novel, Jeffrey Eugenides wrote Middlesex, a story centered on Calliope Stephanides, chronicling the lives of the three generations of the Stephanides family.. Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex COMMON THEMES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS Common Themes in Psychological Thrillers. Warning: This article includes spoilers for numerous films.. It must be quite difficult to create a truly spellbinding psychological thriller, given the difficult task of creating genuine thought-provoking suspense without delving too deeply into the realm of campy melodrama. FAIRY TALES: HOW THEY HAVE CHANGED OVER TIME Fairy tales: How They Have Changed Over Time. Everyone throughout their childhood is usually told the classic fairy tales that install a sense of morals in the child e.g. Beauty and the Beast is the story of a young earl being transformed into a beast and his servants to household items for his selfishness in rejecting an old beggar shelterfor the night.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE? THE ULTIMATE GENDER STEREOTYPES IN FRIENDS The Ultimate Gender Stereotypes in Friends. As good as Friends was it still portrayed its wonderful characters as gender stereotypes, as most sit-coms do, of course, but they very cleverly split these steroetypical traits and spread them across the six main characters. WALT DISNEY’S STORY: A LOOK AT THE MAN BEHIND THE SUCCESS Walt died at 9.30 am on 15 December 1966, 10 days after his 65th birthday. Roy, who had wanted to retire, pressed ahead with the company. Walt Disney World opened in October 1971. The company that Walt has left behind has reached phenomenal success, BERTHA MASON: A 21ST CENTURY WOMAN TRAPPED IN 1847 Bertha Mason is definitely the most interesting character in Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea was a fantastic “prequel”, shall we say. Whilst Victorian men undoubtedly desired women to be the “angels of the house”, I think it’s a little harsh to throw “most 21st century men” into the same category (that is, assuming we’re talking about Western-cultured men?). 5 MUST-WATCH SCANDINAVIAN TV SHOWS CELEBRITY & PANDEMIC: IS CELEBRITY CULTURE DYING? Celebrity & Pandemic: Is Celebrity Culture Dying? During the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen celebrities and high profile people use social media in a way that has roused both negative and positiveresponse.
PERSONA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SHADOW IN INGMAR BERGMAN’S The Journey Begins. In Persona, such exploration of the dark side of humanity starts off with the filming process, with film rolling and filming equipment turning on.This scene echoes with the ending scene, in which the audience will again see the same filming process. Such matching works function as a hint to show that this film is about the filming of a film, that the audience is about to THE ROLE OF “CELEBRITY ANIMALS” 1 day ago · The Role of "Celebrity Animals" What can "celebrity animals" — like Dolly (the cloned sheep), Tilikum (the killer whale), or even the octopus who gained fame on the Netflix Original, My Octopus Teacher — tell us about "the human socially constructed natural world" as Nick Couldry calls it? SPORTS HISTORY/SPORTS The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms. It operates independently with the writers collaboratively building and maintaining the platform. THE LEWIS CARROLL PROBLEM Lewis Carroll aka Charles Ludwig Dodgson was born in 1832, Daresbury UK. He was noted throughout his life as timid, somewhat sickly, and “painful thin” (Wallace 172). As a child, he suffered from whooping cough (174), walked with a herky-jerky limp as WALT DISNEY’S STORY: A LOOK AT THE MAN BEHIND THE SUCCESS Walt died at 9.30 am on 15 December 1966, 10 days after his 65th birthday. Roy, who had wanted to retire, pressed ahead with the company. Walt Disney World opened in October 1971. The company that Walt has left behind has reached phenomenal success, DIVERSITY AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARROWVERSE Diversity and representation in the Arrowverse. Discuss racial and gender representation in the various television series that comprise the CW’s Arrowverse franchise, such as the introduction of television’s first transgender superhero in Supergirl and thenormalized same-sex
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WHY ‘BRAVE NEW WORLD’ HAS FRESH SIGNIFICANCE IN THE MODERN Why ‘Brave New World’ Has Fresh Significance in the Modern Day. Brave New World covers a range of themes and issues that have been pertinent to moral society since it was first published in 1932. From genetic engineering to class struggles, Brave New World examines a future where embryos are chemically treated to ensure they fit a certain class, and then babies and children are hypnotised CLOTHES MAKE THE MUSICAL: THE COSTUMES THAT COLOURED LES Clothes Make the Musical: The Costumes that Coloured Les Misérables. It’s a musical that has enjoyed worldwide acclaim on both West End and Broadway stages, and has since seen fresh success on cinema screens through Tom Hooper’s 2012 adaptation.THE ARTIFICE
The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, TV, Games, Anime, Manga, and Comics. THE MAINSTREAM EFFECT OF SNL NEO-WESTERNS: CONQUERING THE NEW FRONTIER The hero, Sheriff Bell, is a classic soon-to-retire Texan lawman, stuck in the old way of life and rigid in his unwillingness to move forward with the times. Sheriff Bell is almost nihilistic, not just with his own life, but with the world around him. His life loses all FOLK MUSIC: A TIMELESS GENRE CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: INTERNAL GUILT Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Internal Guilt. Tennessee Williams’ three-act play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, tells the story of a dysfunctional family celebrating the patriarch’s birthday.What is typically a time of celebration, instead becomes a very uncomfortable self-discovery for multiple characters. THE LEWIS CARROLL PROBLEM Lewis Carroll aka Charles Ludwig Dodgson was born in 1832, Daresbury UK. He was noted throughout his life as timid, somewhat sickly, and “painful thin” (Wallace 172). As a child, he suffered from whooping cough (174), walked with a herky-jerky limp as VIOLENCE IN ANIME: HELPFUL OR A HINDRANCE? Violence presented in anime is varying, and typically the level of gore depends on the genre of anime being viewed. Anime that is included in the Shoujo genre, for example, will likely feature little to no violence; if violence is featured in a Shoujo anime, it is TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RACE, GENDERSEE MORE ONTHE-ARTIFICE.COM
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The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, TV, Games, Anime, Manga, and Comics. THE MAINSTREAM EFFECT OF SNL NEO-WESTERNS: CONQUERING THE NEW FRONTIER The hero, Sheriff Bell, is a classic soon-to-retire Texan lawman, stuck in the old way of life and rigid in his unwillingness to move forward with the times. Sheriff Bell is almost nihilistic, not just with his own life, but with the world around him. His life loses all FOLK MUSIC: A TIMELESS GENRE CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: INTERNAL GUILT Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Internal Guilt. Tennessee Williams’ three-act play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, tells the story of a dysfunctional family celebrating the patriarch’s birthday.What is typically a time of celebration, instead becomes a very uncomfortable self-discovery for multiple characters. THE LEWIS CARROLL PROBLEM Lewis Carroll aka Charles Ludwig Dodgson was born in 1832, Daresbury UK. He was noted throughout his life as timid, somewhat sickly, and “painful thin” (Wallace 172). As a child, he suffered from whooping cough (174), walked with a herky-jerky limp as VIOLENCE IN ANIME: HELPFUL OR A HINDRANCE? Violence presented in anime is varying, and typically the level of gore depends on the genre of anime being viewed. Anime that is included in the Shoujo genre, for example, will likely feature little to no violence; if violence is featured in a Shoujo anime, it is TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RACE, GENDERSEE MORE ONTHE-ARTIFICE.COM
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CHAUCER AND EVOLVING GRAMMAR Chaucer and Evolving Grammar. Geoffrey Chaucer ‘s verse in the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales shows the beginning of a shift toward Modern English. However, some usage, spelling, and even archaic letters remain from Old English. The Canterbury Tales lacks the heavy Norman French influence of Modern English and has a great deal in common with modern German. PANOPTICONS IN LITERATURE: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND Panopticons in Literature: Psychological Effects and Societal Allegories. Social theorist Jeremy Bentham’s original projection for a panoptic prison, made it so a prisoner never knew if he was being watched. A circular prison with a single guard tower in THE ULTIMATE GENDER STEREOTYPES IN FRIENDS The Ultimate Gender Stereotypes in Friends. As good as Friends was it still portrayed its wonderful characters as gender stereotypes, as most sit-coms do, of course, but they very cleverly split these steroetypical traits and spread them across the six main characters. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RACE, GENDER To Kill a Mockingbird: Discrimination Against Race, Gender, and Class Scout and Jem sit with their father, Atticus. Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird centers on a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Her father Atticus Fincher, a lawyer, takes a case to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. FEAR IN FICTION: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DOWNRIGHT Fear in Fiction: The good, the bad, and the Downright Scary. The portrayal of fear in fiction has a brutally wide range of success and failure. There are authors and novels well known for their ability to terrify the reader and still others that could be summed up in the phrase “you tried”. From Stephen King’s The Shining which iswidely
HOW THE GOLDEN GIRLS CHANGED THE FACE AND NARRATIVE OF How The Golden Girls Changed the Face and Narrative of Aging The Golden Girls. Senior citizens are the cornerstones of most societies. They are our forefathers and foremothers, our troves of lived experience, and our beloved grandparents, great-aunts, great-uncles,and friends.
AUTISM IN MODERN MEDIA Autism In Modern Media. Autism is a developmental disorder that 1 in 68 children are born with yearly and it’s becoming more common each and every year. Autism affects how a person interacts with others, and the world around them and there is a whole spectrum of Autism such as Asperger’s Syndrome, a high functioning Autism. 5 MUST-WATCH SCANDINAVIAN TV SHOWS 5 Must-Watch Scandinavian TV Shows. Over the past five years, Scandinavia has entered a golden age (of sorts) in television. That’s not to say that their television has ever been particularly bad, per say, but recently these countries – particularly Denmark – have offered some of the most original, challenging and engaging shows around (typically dark, atmospheric police procedurals). SYMBOLISM IN THE WESTERN GENRE: LOVE THY HORSE AS THYSELF Symbolism in the Western Genre: Love Thy Horse as Thyself. If you’ve ever seen a Western film, you know how integral horses are to the plot, and you know how critical they are to the Western hero’s mobility and success. After all, a mysterious fellow can’t ride into town without a horse, and he can’t ride off into the sunset either. WHY ‘BRAVE NEW WORLD’ HAS FRESH SIGNIFICANCE IN THE MODERN Why ‘Brave New World’ Has Fresh Significance in the Modern Day. Brave New World covers a range of themes and issues that have been pertinent to moral society since it was first published in 1932. From genetic engineering to class struggles, Brave New World examines a future where embryos are chemically treated to ensure they fit a certain class, and then babies and children are hypnotisedTHE ARTIFICE
The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, TV, Games, Anime, Manga, and Comics. THE MAINSTREAM EFFECT OF SNL NEO-WESTERNS: CONQUERING THE NEW FRONTIER Neo-Westerns: Conquering The New Frontier “Ought to let it just turn me to ashes, put me out of my misery. 21st century, I’m racing a fire to the river with a herd of cattle. THE LEWIS CARROLL PROBLEM The Lewis Carroll Problem One of Carroll’s many self portraits. Charles Dodgson— better known as Lewis Carroll— is generally regarded as the father of modern children’s literature. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: INTERNAL GUILT Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Internal Guilt. Tennessee Williams’ three-act play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, tells the story of a dysfunctional family celebrating the patriarch’s birthday.What is typically a time of celebration, instead becomes a very uncomfortable self-discovery for multiple characters. FOLK MUSIC: A TIMELESS GENRE VIOLENCE IN ANIME: HELPFUL OR A HINDRANCE? Violence in Anime: Helpful or a Hindrance? There are multitudes of anime series out there, many of which feature violent themes oraspects of gore
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The Artifice is an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, TV, Games, Anime, Manga, and Comics. THE MAINSTREAM EFFECT OF SNL NEO-WESTERNS: CONQUERING THE NEW FRONTIER Neo-Westerns: Conquering The New Frontier “Ought to let it just turn me to ashes, put me out of my misery. 21st century, I’m racing a fire to the river with a herd of cattle. THE LEWIS CARROLL PROBLEM The Lewis Carroll Problem One of Carroll’s many self portraits. Charles Dodgson— better known as Lewis Carroll— is generally regarded as the father of modern children’s literature. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: INTERNAL GUILT Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Internal Guilt. Tennessee Williams’ three-act play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, tells the story of a dysfunctional family celebrating the patriarch’s birthday.What is typically a time of celebration, instead becomes a very uncomfortable self-discovery for multiple characters. FOLK MUSIC: A TIMELESS GENRE VIOLENCE IN ANIME: HELPFUL OR A HINDRANCE? Violence in Anime: Helpful or a Hindrance? There are multitudes of anime series out there, many of which feature violent themes oraspects of gore
10 REASONS TO WATCH SUPERNATURAL TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RACE, GENDERSEE MORE ONTHE-ARTIFICE.COM
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PANOPTICONS IN LITERATURE: PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND Panopticons in Literature: Psychological Effects and Societal Allegories. Social theorist Jeremy Bentham’s original projection for a panoptic prison, made it so a prisoner never knew if he was being watched. A circular prison with a single guard tower in CHAUCER AND EVOLVING GRAMMAR Chaucer and Evolving Grammar. Geoffrey Chaucer ‘s verse in the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales shows the beginning of a shift toward Modern English. However, some usage, spelling, and even archaic letters remain from Old English. The Canterbury Tales lacks the heavy Norman French influence of Modern English and has a great deal in common with modern German. THE ULTIMATE GENDER STEREOTYPES IN FRIENDS The Ultimate Gender Stereotypes in Friends. As good as Friends was it still portrayed its wonderful characters as gender stereotypes, as most sit-coms do, of course, but they very cleverly split these steroetypical traits and spread them across the six main characters. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RACE, GENDER To Kill a Mockingbird: Discrimination Against Race, Gender, and Class Scout and Jem sit with their father, Atticus. Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird centers on a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Her father Atticus Fincher, a lawyer, takes a case to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. FEAR IN FICTION: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DOWNRIGHT Fear in Fiction: The good, the bad, and the Downright Scary. The portrayal of fear in fiction has a brutally wide range of success and failure. There are authors and novels well known for their ability to terrify the reader and still others that could be summed up in the phrase “you tried”. HOW THE GOLDEN GIRLS CHANGED THE FACE AND NARRATIVE OF How The Golden Girls Changed the Face and Narrative of Aging The Golden Girls. Senior citizens are the cornerstones of most societies. They are our forefathers and foremothers, our troves of lived experience, and our beloved grandparents, great-aunts, great-uncles,and friends.
SYMBOLISM IN THE WESTERN GENRE: LOVE THY HORSE AS THYSELF Symbolism in the Western Genre: Love Thy Horse as Thyself. If you’ve ever seen a Western film, you know how integral horses are to the plot, and you know how critical they are to the Western hero’s mobility and success. AUTISM IN MODERN MEDIA Autism In Modern Media. Autism is a developmental disorder that 1 in 68 children are born with yearly and it’s becoming more common eachand every year.
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Doctors and Nurses Write this topic DOCTORS AND NURSES ON TV Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been a new spotlight shone on doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. To show support for those in the medical field, it’s now time to evaluate the portrayal of both doctors and nurses in TV: particular tropes, harmful stereotypes, progress in the way women/LGBTQ/BIPOC characters are handled or portrayed. What are some examples of groundbreaking works in the genre? What are some terrible or offensive examples? Some shows to look at are Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs. Comparisons can also be made to non-American TV shows and how they approach thesubject matter.
* I think The Good Doctor should definitely be added to the discussion. The majority of the doctors are Black or Brown (although the main protagonist is white, which brings up other issues). There's also plenty to say about how female physicians are treated or portrayed, especially with the addition of Dr. Jordan. Check out the episode where Jordan treats a large Black female patient, and has to deal with the racial and weight-related implications of her treatment, as well as how her fellow doctors handle it. – Stephanie M.1 week ago 0
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Empathy Machines Write this topic LITERATURE AS AN 'EMPATHY MACHINE'? The phrase ’empathy machine’ was first used to describe the way that watching films can give the viewer an understanding of what it is like to be someone different (different age, gender, nationality, etc.). More recently, it has been used in reference to virtual reality technologies and their ability to allow users to ’embody’ someone else. The claims of both of these mediums as empathy machines rests upon their alleged ability to allow the viewer/player to understand and feel what others feel. This empathy is, of course, something they cannot get from their own life as they do not have the same shared experiences that the machine is allowing them to have. Thus, these tools as empathy machines are profound. But, to what extent can literature be seen as a so-called empathy machine? Using a selection of texts, discuss how they can provide the reader with the knowledge necessary to empathise with those depicted in the texts. This could include fiction, where the reader is learning about the life of someone unreal. Or, it could be non-fiction, where the reader is learning of the life of a real person. Ensure that the specific empathetic qualities of literature are discussed. This might include literature’s reliance on imagination, or the way that written texts allow for lengthy and in-depth first-hand accounts. The potential writer of this topic could provide an overall assessment; is literature more or less effective than film or V.R. in creating empathy? Why/why not? * Excellent topic. The writer may also may want to look into the potentialities of visual novels in creating this form of empathy. – Sathyajith Shaji Manthanth 3 months ago 1 * Very interesting, indeed. Gary Saul Morson has written a lot about this topic, insofar as he centers empathetic engagement as the core of his pedagogy (see especially: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781618116758-011/html ). If we want to dig a little deeper, something that I'm curious about is necessity to frame it as a "machine," per se. This is understandable in the realms of film and VR, which undeniably have a "mechanical" component to their narrative transmission, but literature is significantly more analog -- especially if we're thinking of it in terms of the "text" itself, as opposed to the materiality of print media. Though I suppose a case can certainly be made that literature is a "technology" (if we trace the etymology back the the original Greek "teche"; Foucault's "Technologies of the Self" come to mind, if a reference point for more abstract uses of such terms is needed). I dunno, perhaps I'm being too literal, and should probably be ignored. – ProtoCanon 2 weeks ago 0 * Excellent topic. Within it, the author might also consider the different types of empathy. That is, there's a type of empathy that sounds like, "I have not been through this, but I can relate to something you are feeling." There's also a type that sounds like, "I have been through exactly this or something very similar, so I am relating strongly to your emotions and experiences, and may talk about them in relation to what we are both feeling." However, a lot of people only think of empathy as one kind or the other, so they either accuse others of having no empathy, or assume that empathy can't be found unless you have related personally to a given experience. – Stephanie M. 5 days ago 0Add Note
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studio ghibli Write this topic PORTRAYALS OF GENDER IN STUDIO GHIBLI FILMS Many movies under Studio Ghibli have been lauded for their strong, complex female protagonists. Chihiro from Spirited Away, San from Princess Mononoke, and several others come to mind immediately. Hayao Miyazaki writes “brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man”. However progressive Studio Ghibli may seem, the representation is nowhere near perfect. Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura has gone on record to say that women are too realistic to direct these fantasy films, and “men on the other hand tend to be more idealistic—and fantasy films need that idealistic approach. I don’t think it’s a coincidence men are picked”. But many Studio Ghibli films are movie adaptations of stories originally written by women. Diana Wynne Jones wrote the original novel “Howl’s Moving Castle”, Ursula K. Le Guin was the original novelist of the “Tales from Earthsea” books, and Eiko Kadono wrote not just “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, but also five sequels to it. It might also be worth looking at some character portrayals from a folkloric perspective. It is certainly true that many young female protagonists are brave, independent, and heroic. But many Studio Ghibli villains such as Yubaba and Suleiman are magical women and fall into the “old hag” archetype of Western folklore, which Miyazaki has taken inspiration from countless times. These women are characteristically old and thus “ugly”, or not conventionally attractive, and they serve as antagonists to more conventionally attractive, younger women. Meanwhile, magical men such as Haku and Howl are often portrayed as heroic and noble—not without their own character flaws, of course, but there is still a distinct contrast. As progressive as Miyazaki is with his portrayal of women, he still relies on archetypes such as these, whether intentionally or not. This topic is open to any discussion regarding portrayals of gender in any Studio Ghibli film, whether positive or negative.Add Note
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