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Disney-Pixar’s Brave: Critiquing the criticisms

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Rebecca Hains

I saw Brave the day it debuted in theaters, and I’m glad that Merida is a different kind of princess–one who can be read as a critique of both the trope that princesses are passive and the trend to tell…

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