{"id":388,"date":"2015-04-01T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/04\/01\/what-is-world-cinema-americans-cinema-uc-answers\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T20:44:00","slug":"what-is-world-cinema-americans-cinema-uc-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/04\/01\/what-is-world-cinema-americans-cinema-uc-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"What is world cinema? American&#8217;s Cinema UC answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the preview of film professor Jeff Middents (friend of Media Services), AU&#8217;s Critical Approach to Cinema University College group has helped on-board new undergraduate students into the world of cinema studies. This year, as a capstone project, Middents asked his UC group to make sense of contemporary world cinema. The UC students produced a series of critical video essays about films from twelve different countries \u2013 and they&#8217;re available to watch right now!<\/p>\n<p>Head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfOLiDf1xngI63LaewxDC-g\/featured\">the Contemporary World Cinema Project&#8217;s YouTube page<\/a> for a look at what these students have been working on. The project covers a great range of countries, from Australia to Argentina to North Korea (yes, North Korea!). For many of the participants, this was their first time editing a video project, and they make great use of selected clips from their film subjects.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve embedded a playlist of all the video essays above. Each one runs six or seven minutes, putting the running time at just about the length of a Disney movie. Give them a watch, and leave some comments for these up-and-coming film scholars!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the preview of film professor Jeff Middents (friend of Media Services), AU&#8217;s Critical Approach to Cinema University College group has helped on-board new undergraduate students into the world of cinema studies. This year, as a capstone project, Middents asked his UC group to make sense of contemporary world cinema. The UC students produced a [&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":[227,377,395],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-middents","tag-video","tag-world-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}