{"id":187,"date":"2016-07-11T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/07\/11\/who-run-the-world-ghostbusters-its-women-in-film-week-on-the-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:25:00","slug":"who-run-the-world-ghostbusters-its-women-in-film-week-on-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/07\/11\/who-run-the-world-ghostbusters-its-women-in-film-week-on-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Who run the world? Ghostbusters. It&#8217;s Women in Film Week on the blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-C5T0CgY7p90\/V4PvA3g8UhI\/AAAAAAAACeI\/qj6NPRjdbPQ59TN2DfP2R1M82z5saPbGQCLcB\/s500\/ghostbustershellyes.gif\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Haters be warned: the new <i>Ghostbusters<\/i> movie comes out this Friday, and we are extremely excited. It looks like a whole load of fun, and we&#8217;re glad to see a big-budgeted action comedy in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s impossible to talk about <i>Ghostbusters<\/i> in a vacuum, because the discussion around the movie has been dominated by anger over the casting of women in the movie&#8217;s central roles. Whether in coded language about the sanctity of childhood memories or just outright sexism, the uproar over funny women being Ghostbusters is a sad reminder that film and pop culture are still often hostile towards women.<\/p>\n<p>So this week, we&#8217;re featuring articles and stories about the experiences of women in film. Bustin&#8217; preconceptions about the state of gender equity in the film business makes us feel good.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haters be warned: the new Ghostbusters movie comes out this Friday, and we are extremely excited. It looks like a whole load of fun, and we&#8217;re glad to see a big-budgeted action comedy in theaters. But it&#8217;s impossible to talk about Ghostbusters in a vacuum, because the discussion around the movie has been dominated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,154,393],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deal-with-it","tag-ghostbusters","tag-women-in-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}