{"id":285,"date":"2021-04-05T21:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=285"},"modified":"2021-04-05T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:33:29","slug":"video-essay-spike-lees-restless-aspect-ratios-in-da-five-bloods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2021\/04\/05\/video-essay-spike-lees-restless-aspect-ratios-in-da-five-bloods\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: Spike Lee&#8217;s Restless Aspect Ratios in &#8216;Da Five Bloods&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/davife-1024x546.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/davife-1024x546.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/davife-300x160.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/davife-768x409.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/davife.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Spike Lee&#8217;s Vietnam War drama <\/em>Da Five Bloods<em> contains many hallmarks of its auteur&#8217;s signature style, shot details that can be traced all the way back to Lee&#8217;s 1989 breakthrough <\/em>Do the Right Thing<em>. Mackenzie Graham&#8217;s video essay focuses on one unique decision of Lee&#8217;s with <\/em>Da Five Bloods<em>, namely his use of varying aspect ratios to convey shifts in the present to the past, and to highlight the particular dynamics between individual characters.<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spike Lee&#039;s Restless Aspect Ratios in &#039;Da Five Bloods&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZD2U-gXPb4?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Lee&#8217;s Vietnam War drama Da Five Bloods contains many hallmarks of its auteur&#8217;s signature style, shot details that can be traced all the way back to Lee&#8217;s 1989 breakthrough Do the Right Thing. Mackenzie Graham&#8217;s video essay focuses on one unique decision of Lee&#8217;s with Da Five Bloods, namely his use of varying aspect [&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":[227604,227602,227601],"class_list":{"0":"post-285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-aspect-ratio","8":"tag-da-five-bloods","9":"tag-spike-lee","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}