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The top films for 2010—especially those up for this Sunday’s awards—leave most of the species-specific questions behind. Instead this year’s crop reflects anxieties (as well as promises) about who we are and who we might be becoming in and as humans, in our own skins—never mind the “prawns” or “Na’vi.” Questions provoked by this year’s films include those concerning the nature of our selves in connection and collision with our families, our larger social institutional entanglements, and our own bodies. The other key theme, effecting each of the others, had to do with the ways new media technology is inserting itself into our intimate lives, and changing our identities, both public and private.

Father said son turned bad by converting to Islam, but investigation reveals otherwise.

Wisconsin groups take a stand against union-busting and drastic cutbacks in social services.

Forget Pat Robertson blaming homosexuality or Buddha for natural disasters, Twitter now gives everyone a 140-character virtual sandwich board.

The GCB pilot is being criticized by conservative Christian groups as “hate speech” and “misogyny.” How lovely that they’re taking feminism seriously!

Bills aim to portray refusal to teach creationism as “discrimination.”

The very leaders criticizing Islam for unequal treatment of women have some curious views on equality.

And the violent bear it away.

MEAC is just a front for a conservative media group.