{"id":155,"date":"2016-09-19T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/19\/what-last-nights-emmys-mean-for-diversity-on-screen\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:46:00","slug":"what-last-nights-emmys-mean-for-diversity-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/19\/what-last-nights-emmys-mean-for-diversity-on-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"What last night’s Emmys mean for diversity on screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Last night’s Emmy Awards highlighted the diversity of the nominees and winners, especially in contrast to this year’s widely derided Oscars. The 2016 Emmys featured shows, stories, and artists from a wide spectrum of race, gender identity, and disability. Plus, we’re happy any time Key & Peele<\/i> wins an award. Nooice!<\/p>\n

The Chicago Tribune<\/i> published a great summary of why this year’s ceremonies were different<\/a> and how that different mattered creatively. Featuring an increasingly higher numbers of non-white nominees doesn’t just capture the country more accurately; it also leads to greater diversity in subject matter, and the huge range of shows at the Emmys \u2013 including Master of None<\/i>, Mr. Robot<\/i>, and Orphan Black<\/i> \u2013 reflects how media changes when you bring in new perspectives and voices. (There’s also the added benefit that diverse representation may help ratings.)<\/p>\n

If the Emmys are a sign of the general direction television is heading, diversity in perspective, representation, and talent are intertwined and growing. Take note, film!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

via Yahoo Last night’s Emmy Awards highlighted the diversity of the nominees and winners, especially in contrast to this year’s widely derided Oscars. The 2016 Emmys featured shows, stories, and artists from a wide spectrum of race, gender identity, and disability. Plus, we’re happy any time Key & Peele wins an award. Nooice! The Chicago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[56,102,117,355],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-awards","tag-diversity","tag-emmy-awards","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}