{"id":217,"date":"2020-05-08T21:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=217"},"modified":"2020-05-08T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:21:36","slug":"video-essay-the-cinema-of-chaos-in-the-favourite-and-the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2020\/05\/08\/video-essay-the-cinema-of-chaos-in-the-favourite-and-the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: The Cinema of Chaos in The Favourite and The Last Black Man in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/008_TheFavourite_032249_SearchlightMarketing_Jacquelyn_Silverman_091818.00-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/008_TheFavourite_032249_SearchlightMarketing_Jacquelyn_Silverman_091818.00-1024x551.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/008_TheFavourite_032249_SearchlightMarketing_Jacquelyn_Silverman_091818.00-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/008_TheFavourite_032249_SearchlightMarketing_Jacquelyn_Silverman_091818.00-768x414.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/008_TheFavourite_032249_SearchlightMarketing_Jacquelyn_Silverman_091818.00.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In this video essay, Shannon Weidner\u00a0<\/em><em>argues that two seemingly dissimilar films<\/em> &#8212;\u00a0<em>Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>The Favourite\u00a0<em>and Joe Talbot&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>The Last Black Man in San Francisco &#8212; <em>share an interest in\u00a0<\/em><em>using cinematic techniques to depict the destabilized, chaotic relationships that they their characters have with their surroundings.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cinema of Chaos:  Visual Instability in The Favourite and The Last Black Man in San Francisco\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfwmTDhCxxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video essay, Shannon Weidner\u00a0argues that two seemingly dissimilar films &#8212;\u00a0Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;\u00a0The Favourite\u00a0and Joe Talbot&#8217;s\u00a0The Last Black Man in San Francisco &#8212; share an interest in\u00a0using cinematic techniques to depict the destabilized, chaotic relationships that they their characters have with their surroundings.\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223009],"tags":[224318,223714,223996,224676],"class_list":{"0":"post-217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-joe-talbot","8":"tag-the-favourite","9":"tag-the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco","10":"tag-yorgos-lanthimos","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}