{"id":158,"date":"2016-09-13T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/13\/socs-media-that-matter-series-kicks-off-with-thank-you-for-playing\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:46:00","slug":"socs-media-that-matter-series-kicks-off-with-thank-you-for-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/13\/socs-media-that-matter-series-kicks-off-with-thank-you-for-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"SOC&#8217;s Media that Matter series kicks off with Thank You for Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every semester, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/soc\/partnerships\/movies-that-matter.cfm\">SOC&#8217;s Media that Matter film series<\/a> highlights social issues as captured on the screen, from race issues in America to the ethics of food. It&#8217;s a very AU film series in the best way, and often, the screening includes a discussion with the filmmakers. Last semester, the series included a screening of Best Picture winner <i>Spotlight<\/i> and an interview with then-<i>Boston Globe<\/i> editor Martin Barton.<\/p>\n<p>Media that Matter starts again this Wednesday with a screening of <i>Thank You for Playing<\/i>, a documentary about the development of the video game <i>That Dragon, Cancer<\/i> \u2013 an autobiographical game by Amy and Ryan Green about caring for their infant, who was diagnosed with cancer. <i>That Dragon, Cancer<\/i> is a raw, emotional experience to play, and <i>Thank You for Playing<\/i> looks at the people who chose to tell their story<i> <\/i>through an unexpected medium.<\/p>\n<p>The screening begins at 6pm on Wednesday, September 14th, in the McKinley Building&#8217;s Forman Theater; the film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers led by AU Game Lab&#8217;s Lindsay Grace.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every semester, SOC&#8217;s Media that Matter film series highlights social issues as captured on the screen, from race issues in America to the ethics of food. It&#8217;s a very AU film series in the best way, and often, the screening includes a discussion with the filmmakers. Last semester, the series included a screening of Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121,151,377],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-screening","tag-event","tag-games","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}