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Film & TV Just how Jewish is Betty Boop?
Born on Aug. 9, 1930, the iconic cartoon character has both animated and real-life Yiddish ancestors
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Culture Does Netflix’s ‘Inside Job’ encourage antisemitic conspiracy theorists?
Jews are at the roots of most of the major conspiracy theories. A secret cabal who runs the government? That may be a QAnon tenet these days, but it’s originally from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a made-up pamphlet purporting to detail the Jewish plan for global domination. Bloodsucking lizard people? That one…
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The Schmooze The Internet is Puzzled by Diversity Discussion Featuring Seth Rogen and 6 Other White Guys
The Hollywood Reporter published a roundtable conversation featuring seven animation producers and directors discussing their respective films. The talk centered around how cultural biases affect their approach to making movies and their portrayals of princesses on screen. Each director, you guessed it, was a white man. It didn’t take long for the internet to call…
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Fast Forward Israeli Animators Scoop Top Prize at Block Party Awards
(JTA) — Two graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem won first place for design in a major U.S. animation festival. “Scapegoat,” a short film by Gal Haklay and Shulamit Tager, won first prize in the original design category at the 13th annual Animation Block Party Awards, Bezalel announced Monday. The Animation…
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Culture Animation, ‘Archer’ and the Art of Offending
At the beginning of the sixth and current season of “Archer,” an animated spy comedy on FX, the title character, a handsome, womanizing secret agent, is sent to the jungle of Borneo to recover the computer from a downed American spy plane. While making his way across the island, Archer runs into a Japanese soldier…
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