http://threadforthought.net/2009/08/04/craftiness-in-coraline-domestic-sewing-traditions/ An academic view of how fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race, & pop culture Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:01:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://threadforthought.net/2009/08/04/craftiness-in-coraline-domestic-sewing-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-1445 Thread for Thought – Janelle Monae, Style Icon and Fashion Industry Commentator Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:37:21 +0000 http://threadforthought.net/?p=681#comment-1445 [...] ethnicities (“they all look the same”) is explored too (see my earlier post on multiplicity in Coraline). All androids, including the performer Cindy Mayweather, are part of the same line of androids, [...] [...] ethnicities (“they all look the same”) is explored too (see my earlier post on multiplicity in Coraline). All androids, including the performer Cindy Mayweather, are part of the same line of androids, [...]

]]> http://threadforthought.net/2009/08/04/craftiness-in-coraline-domestic-sewing-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 Diane Bell Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0000 http://threadforthought.net/?p=681#comment-1201 Please note, Wybee's grandmother's twin sister was not evil, but an early victim of the other mother, which is why Wybee was forbidden to visit the house Coraline lived in. In the opening credits, the doll the other mother transforms into Coraline is the likeness of the Grandmother's twin as a child -- the doll that the grandmother kept in a trunk after her sister disappeared. Wybee found it and showed the doll to Coraline because it looked so much like her. Cool, right? Please note, Wybee’s grandmother’s twin sister was not evil, but an early victim of the other mother, which is why Wybee was forbidden to visit the house Coraline lived in. In the opening credits, the doll the other mother transforms into Coraline is the likeness of the Grandmother’s twin as a child — the doll that the grandmother kept in a trunk after her sister disappeared. Wybee found it and showed the doll to Coraline because it looked so much like her. Cool, right?

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