{"id":185,"date":"2016-07-12T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/07\/12\/fandor-spotlights-twenty-acclaimed-films-by-women\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:28:00","slug":"fandor-spotlights-twenty-acclaimed-films-by-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/07\/12\/fandor-spotlights-twenty-acclaimed-films-by-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Fandor spotlights twenty acclaimed films by women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fandor has established itself as the premier digital film service for cinema buffs: in addition to their streaming library, they run <i>Keyframe<\/i>, a daily film essay and video blog. If you haven&#8217;t followed them already and like film, you probably should. For one of their videos (embedded above), <i>Keyframe<\/i> polled fifty film critics about their favorite works directed by women and created a montage of the top twenty results.<\/p>\n<p>As with the cinematographer interviews, the question is whether it&#8217;s productive to view films primarily through the lens of the filmmaker&#8217;s gender. In short, it is. As the video&#8217;s creator Scout Tafoya says, women still face an uphill battle in terms of criticism, funding, and most troublingly acknowledgment for their work. &#8220;Unless we make noise,&#8221; Tafoya adds, &#8220;we&#8217;ll allow it to continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Keyframe<\/i> did their part, so we&#8217;re sharing it. Take at look at the striking imagery from twenty films by women. (<i>Meshes of the Afternoon<\/i> is unlike anything we&#8217;ve seen in a while.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fandor has established itself as the premier digital film service for cinema buffs: in addition to their streaming library, they run Keyframe, a daily film essay and video blog. If you haven&#8217;t followed them already and like film, you probably should. For one of their videos (embedded above), Keyframe polled fifty film critics about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[377,393],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","tag-video","tag-women-in-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}