{"id":221,"date":"2020-05-08T21:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=221"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:56:27","slug":"video-essay-humor-destabilizing-power-in-the-favourite-and-the-death-of-stalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2020\/05\/08\/video-essay-humor-destabilizing-power-in-the-favourite-and-the-death-of-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: Humor Destabilizing Power in The Favourite and The Death of Stalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/dos-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/dos-1024x427.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/dos-300x125.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/dos-768x320.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/dos.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This examination of humor in Armando Ianucci&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>The Death of Stalin\u00a0<em>and Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>The Favourite\u00a0<em>Nila Selveraj frames comedy as a key device in both films for interrogating the systems of power depicted by each &#8212; Stalinist Russia in the former, 18th century English royalty in the latter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best Pictures Final Video Essay\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNklD7M1yZU?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>This examination of humor in Armando Ianucci&#8217;s\u00a0The Death of Stalin\u00a0and Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;\u00a0The Favourite\u00a0Nila Selveraj frames comedy as a key device in both films for interrogating the systems of power depicted by each &#8212; Stalinist Russia in the former, 18th century English royalty in the latter. &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":[224923,225114,223714,224676],"class_list":{"0":"post-221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-armando-ianucci","8":"tag-death-of-stalin","9":"tag-the-favourite","10":"tag-yorgos-lanthimos","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}