{"id":227,"date":"2020-05-08T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=227"},"modified":"2020-05-08T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:47:51","slug":"video-essay-magic-and-the-marginalized-happy-as-lazzaro-and-i-am-not-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2020\/05\/08\/video-essay-magic-and-the-marginalized-happy-as-lazzaro-and-i-am-not-a-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: Magic and the Marginalized (Happy as Lazzaro and I Am Not a Witch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-228\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-08-at-4.43.44-PM-1024x520.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-08-at-4.43.44-PM-1024x520.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-08-at-4.43.44-PM-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-08-at-4.43.44-PM-768x390.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Amanda Hua&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0<em>video essay analyzes the use of magic in two 2018 films: Rungano Nyoni&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>I Am Not a Witch\u00a0<em>and Alice Rohrwacher&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>Happy as Lazzaro.\u00a0<em>In these contexts, Hua argues, magic provides unique formal and thematic capabilities for art that depicts the condition of marginalized and oppressed peoples.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magic and the Marginalized\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1Tq5_jdAIU?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Hua&#8217;s\u00a0video essay analyzes the use of magic in two 2018 films: Rungano Nyoni&#8217;s\u00a0I Am Not a Witch\u00a0and Alice Rohrwacher&#8217;s\u00a0Happy as Lazzaro.\u00a0In these contexts, Hua argues, magic provides unique formal and thematic capabilities for art that depicts the condition of marginalized and oppressed peoples.<\/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":[226529,226312,226018,196362,226851,225723],"class_list":{"0":"post-227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-alice-rohrwacher","8":"tag-happy-as-lazzaro","9":"tag-i-am-not-a-witch","10":"tag-magic","11":"tag-magical-realism","12":"tag-rungano-nyoni","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}