Gremlins Themes
Foreignness and the Other
Americans have a long tradition of exoticizing China. Chinese food. Chinese checkers. Blac Chyna. Because of this attitude of "foreignness," depictions of Chinese people and Chinese culture have be...
Violence
Parents complained so much about violent movies in the 1980s that the PG-13 rating was invented shortly after Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But if these parents still let their...
Change
Some people are so scared of change, they don't even want to change change. (If you don't get the pun, we're talking about money, guys.) We're here to talk about something else that is green like m...
Family
All families have different holiday traditions. Some families gather around a Christmas tree and pass out presents. Some families light a menorah and eat latkes. Some families put up the Festivus p...