Jeffery Moser

This article points out the doubleness of the human spirit and literature’s oft opposing elements that create conflict for and within the protagonist or heroes of any genre.

Certainly Rey rhymes with “ray” which indicates ray of hope and totally accents the Star Wars theme and setting for galactic and romantic intersections. Hence, I do agree that she is on the path to becoming a Jedi.

I loved this essay! Great documentation.

At least the movie reached a broad, mainstream audience, so there was education on the topics of AIDS, tolerance, and homosexuality.

This article effectively communicates the tremendous achievement by the creators of Steven Universe to focus on romance, gender, friendship, sexuality,and cooperation in new ways.

This essay is helpful. We need more lesson plans and guidebooks for college courses in literary studies about comics.

I have taught the art of fiction by asking students to read the original film scripts and then showing students the “final” film. I find play scripts and screenplays to be primary source materials and literary phenomena which sufficiently stand alone as works in and of themselves. It is always interesting to compare films to the screenplay or novel/book and note the editorial judgments made between the “blue print” of the writer/director’s print narrative and the work produced and presented on the silver screen.

Has anyone charted the comparisons between money invested in this franchise and its popularity vs. other anime productions?