{"id":264,"date":"2021-04-05T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=264"},"modified":"2021-04-05T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:36:44","slug":"video-essay-atlantics-and-feminist-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2021\/04\/05\/video-essay-atlantics-and-feminist-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: &#8216;Atlantics&#8217; and Feminist Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/atlantics.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/atlantics.jpeg 973w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/atlantics-300x181.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/atlantics-768x463.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Centered on Mati Diop&#8217;s 2019 film <\/em>Atlantics<em> (<\/em>Atlantique<em>), Rachel Schlesinger&#8217;s video essay analyzes the role that horror cinema can serve in aiding feminist explorations of disempowered women. <\/em>Atlantics<em> &#8212; which became the first film directed by a Black woman in the history of the Cannes Festival to be screened for competition &#8212; offers a feminist perspective on the many socioeconomic plights of women in Senegal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=RicrkUHozDU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centered on Mati Diop&#8217;s 2019 film Atlantics (Atlantique), Rachel Schlesinger&#8217;s video essay analyzes the role that horror cinema can serve in aiding feminist explorations of disempowered women. Atlantics &#8212; which became the first film directed by a Black woman in the history of the Cannes Festival to be screened for competition &#8212; offers a feminist [&hellip;]<\/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":[227607,227608,456,227606],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-atlantics","8":"tag-atlantique","9":"tag-feminism","10":"tag-mati-diop","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}