{"id":882,"date":"2018-03-25T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=882"},"modified":"2018-04-02T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:19:15","slug":"queer-media-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/03\/25\/queer-media-moonlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Media &#8211; Moonlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 800px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-882-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/My-Movie-4-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/My-Movie-4-1.mp4\">http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/My-Movie-4-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cQueer viewers are no longer bereft of \u00a0the opportunity to see ourselves on screens and devices large, small, fixed, and portable\u201d \u2013 (Ouellette and Gray 157).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, I decided to zone in on the film I will primarily be discussing for my final project, which is the 2016 film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moonlight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This Oscar-winning film received much attention, positive and negative, as it portrays a story we do not usually see in the media: the story of a young, black man struggling with his sexuality and identity from childhood through adulthood. I used this quote from the keywords book, as I feel like many people felt this way about the film, and because I hope this film sparks more types of films just like it, as the topics discussed in this film are extremely important and not often discussed, specifically within the Black community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also included some quotes from the Mu\u00f1oz reading into my post. In the reading, Mu\u00f1oz discusses a situation that happened during his childhood, where a family member made fun of him because of his \u201cfeminine\u201d walk. I included this in the post, along with audio from a clip of the film where the main character Chiron\u2019s drug-addicted mother suggests to her drug dealer, and Chiron\u2019s father figure, that she can tell Chiron is gay by the way he walks. I slowed down this video clip at the beginning and then rewinded it, as I felt this made the intro more dramatic. I also included another quote from the reading where Mu\u00f1oz talks about how for queer folks, childhood can be a time of policing and violence, as Chiron experienced much of this throughout his childhood because people because they thought he was gay and because his mother was a crack-addict. Rather than using the audio from the original clip, I used a sad, dramatic instrumental I found on YouTube, as I felt it set the vibe for the rest of the video. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cQueer viewers are no longer bereft of \u00a0the opportunity to see ourselves on screens and devices large, small, fixed, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[72730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racialized-pleasures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}