{"id":403,"date":"2016-01-19T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/?p=403"},"modified":"2016-01-20T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T16:02:23","slug":"the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/01\/19\/the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. It&#8217;s Oscar season. Since we were in class when this year&#8217;s nominees were being announced, you can check out the full show below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oscar Nominations 2016: Full Show On Demand\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYteDz0CUi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To summarize, here are the nominees:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/01\/oscar-nominees-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/01\/oscar-nominees-2016-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"oscar nominees 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/01\/oscar-nominees-2016-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/01\/oscar-nominees-2016-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/01\/oscar-nominees-2016-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/01\/oscar-nominees-2016.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nominee list has sparked much debate\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-35360113\">criticism<\/a>. Consider: are there actors who you might add to this list?<\/p>\n<p>The criticism has also led some to argue that this is &#8220;just an awards show.&#8221; Is it?\u00a0Why are we discussing the Oscars? Thinking about yesterday&#8217;s introductory discussion of celebrity, image, and visual culture, what do the Oscars\u00a0<em>mean<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. It&#8217;s Oscar season. Since we were in class when this year&#8217;s nominees were being announced, you can check out the full show below: To summarize, here are the nominees: The nominee list has sparked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/01\/19\/the-oscars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}