When the producers of the film The Last Airbender announced their casting decisions, a large collective of fans became irate – they argued that the original cartoon was set in an Asian world, so all four lead roles should go to Asian American actors. Instead, producers cast three ...
Tópico(s): Asian American and Pacific Histories
2011 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Cultural Studies
Sang-Kyun Kim, Seungjun Yang, Chung Hyun Ahn, Yong Soo Joo,
... 1,953 720×400 26.193 2 c2 The Last Airbender 1,953 720×304 29.697 2 c3 Haeundae 1,953 720×304 29.2 4 h1 Batman Begins 1,953 1,280×528 24.859 4 h2 Sherlock Holmes 1,953 704×384 30.30 3 h3 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1,953 1,280× ...
Tópico(s): Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
2014 - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | ETRI Journal
... echoing earlier controversies over Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015), The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, 2010), and 21 (Robert Luketic, 2008). In addition to the vociferous criticism of these announcements on Twitter and ...
Tópico(s): Asian American and Pacific Histories
2017 - University of Texas Press | Cinema Journal
... from an early age, by looking at Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra. In the shows, the world ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2023 - SAGE Publishing | European Journal of Cultural Studies
... elements known from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) and Avatar: Legend of Korra (LOK), and asks how it came to be and how stance is conveyed through them. After acknowledging the impact of the series, conceptual blending theory is ...
Tópico(s): Digital Communication and Language
2022 - Routledge | Metaphor and Symbol
By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous ...
Tópico(s): Asian American and Pacific Histories
2021 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of Asian American Studies
Produção Nacional
Anderson Rodrigues Ramos, Pedro Antonio dos Santos Bonfim Gonçalves, Priscila Tamiasso Martinhon, Ângela Sanches Rocha,
... em que a série animada de televisão Avatar: The Last Airbender foi usada como tema gerador. Em seguida, procedeu- ...
Tópico(s): Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies
2020 - | Aprender - Caderno de Filosofia e Psicologia da Educação
... evolved into “whitewashing” practices), in such films as The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, 2010), Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015), Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, 2016), Birth of the Dragon (George Nolfi, 2016), and Ghost in the ...
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2018 - University College Cork | Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media
... Kid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Xiaolin Showdown, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Kung Fu Panda? Moreover, what happens if we view all this within a matrix of sexual and racial politics, and against the backdrop of a U.S. search for global ...
Tópico(s): Asian American and Pacific Histories
2011 - Oxford University Press | Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2014 - Association for Computing Machinery | interactions
Muhamad Azhar Abdullah, Nabilah Abdullah,
... an animation.However, Nikelodeon's animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008) succeeded its predecessor, Mulan, from critical criticisms and controversies related to cultural adaptation despite displaying distinct visual cultural elements which were immersed in its animated features.This paper delved into reviewing the exploits of cultural representations that are integrated in ...
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2020 - | International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2018 - UC Berkeley School of Law | Asian American law journal
Tópico(s): South Asian Cinema and Culture
2010 - Brill | Images
... Netflix, 2007. “ Bato of the Water Tribe.” Avatar: The Last Airbender, written by Michael D. DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, ... no. 3, 1994, pp. 5–15. “ Jet.” Avatar: The Last Airbender, written by Michael D. DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, ... 4, 1983, pp. 337–49. “ The Runaway.” Avatar: The Last Airbender, written by J. Hamilton, directed by G. Volpe, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, 2007. Serota, Kim B, et al. “The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of ...
Tópico(s): Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
2023 - Wiley | The Journal of Popular Culture
... adventure story that echoes modern classics like Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Princess Bride. Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees ...
2022 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
... live-action adaptation of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, popular Asian American media criticism took a noticeable turn away from the positive/negative-stereotype debates that had surrounded films ...
Tópico(s): Asian American and Pacific Histories
2022 - University of California Press | Film Quarterly
... a mix of Game of Thrones and Avatar: The Last Airbender. First-person narration alternates between Talon and Darling, and while each is likeable, they have little agency in the story. The real protagonist is the enigmatic, mercurial ...
Tópico(s): Global Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics
2023 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
... This will be a sure hit among Avatar: The Last Airbender readers, and it could also serve as a first-time foray into GNs for faerie fans. KQG Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2018 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Christopher Reynolds, Mark Brill,
... next installment of this latter collaboration will be The Last Airbender, scheduled for release in 2010. Howard's versatility is evident in his willingness to accept markedly different projects at the same time. In the eighteen months during 1999- ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The Hopkins review/Hopkins review
Gene Luen Yang, Marek Oziewicz, Emily Midkiff,
... for a comics continuation of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender series. He teaches creative writing for Hameline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Gene lives in California with his wife and four children, but travels whenever he has a chance to advocate the use of comics and graphic [End Page 123] ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2014 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The Lion and the unicorn