{"id":237,"date":"2020-05-08T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-05-08T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:11:07","slug":"video-essay-what-constitutes-true-power-i-am-not-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2020\/05\/08\/video-essay-what-constitutes-true-power-i-am-not-a-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: What Constitutes True Power? (I Am Not a Witch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/I-Am-Not-a-Witch-1024x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/I-Am-Not-a-Witch-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/I-Am-Not-a-Witch-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/I-Am-Not-a-Witch-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2020\/05\/I-Am-Not-a-Witch.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This video essay on Rungano Nyongi&#8217;s <\/em>I Am Not a Witch<em> by Amarachi Ngwakwe explores the film&#8217;s depiction of power through an analysis of Nyongi&#8217;s deft formal techniques. Through Nyongi&#8217;s filmmaking, according to Ngwakwe, we can understand this film as an examination of what power and imprisonment truly mean.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TC358 Video Essay: I Am Not a Witch\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ywU6kar2Z84?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>This video essay on Rungano Nyongi&#8217;s I Am Not a Witch by Amarachi Ngwakwe explores the film&#8217;s depiction of power through an analysis of Nyongi&#8217;s deft formal techniques. Through Nyongi&#8217;s filmmaking, according to Ngwakwe, we can understand this film as an examination of what power and imprisonment truly mean.<\/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":[226018,225723],"class_list":{"0":"post-237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-i-am-not-a-witch","8":"tag-rungano-nyoni","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}