{"id":751,"date":"2012-12-05T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/05\/a-o-scott-film-is-alive-and-well\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T21:51:00","slug":"a-o-scott-film-is-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/05\/a-o-scott-film-is-alive-and-well\/","title":{"rendered":"A. O. Scott: Film is alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-LS5yPaFEMWs\/UL-zaf43zhI\/AAAAAAAAAQ4\/o9ics0v8FIA\/s1600\/c25d398cb30594fe2e047e40e79ad717.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-LS5yPaFEMWs\/UL-zaf43zhI\/AAAAAAAAAQ4\/o9ics0v8FIA\/s200\/c25d398cb30594fe2e047e40e79ad717.jpg\" width=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Back in September we posted an article <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/has-television-captured-zeitgeist.html\">asking if television had overtaken film<\/a> as the medium of our time. It was part of a long string of opinion pieces writing the obituary for film culture. It seems only fair to post a rebuttal.<i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>New York Times<\/i> film critic A. O. Scott has a new piece declaring that film culture is, in fact, alive and well. &#8220;I hate to ruin a good funeral,&#8221; he says, &#8220;but all of this is nonsense.&#8221; Scott doesn&#8217;t really contest that film is losing audience to television, but he sees film as an increasingly vibrant medium that continues to envelope culture. He gives a litany of examples, from <i>Moonrise Kingdom<\/i> to <i>Lincoln<\/i>. All popularity issues aside, film isn&#8217;t losing any energy.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect this to be the last word on the current state of film, especially once awards season enters full swing.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September we posted an article asking if television had overtaken film as the medium of our time. It was part of a long string of opinion pieces writing the obituary for film culture. It seems only fair to post a rebuttal.&nbsp; New York Times film critic A. O. Scott has a new piece [&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":[86,212],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-controversial","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}