{"id":275,"date":"2021-04-05T20:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=275"},"modified":"2021-04-05T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:57:41","slug":"video-essay-birds-of-prey-and-the-identity-of-harley-quinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2021\/04\/05\/video-essay-birds-of-prey-and-the-identity-of-harley-quinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: &#8216;Birds of Prey&#8217; and the Identity of Harley Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/robbie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/robbie.jpeg 958w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/robbie-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/robbie-768x433.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In his consideration of the &#8220;DC Extended Universe&#8221; title<\/em> Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), <em>Marshall Comeaux discusses the challenges inherent to building a robust and unique cinematic  narrative for a character like Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), who in her initial DC film appearances (2016&#8217;s<\/em> Suicide Squad<em>)<\/em> <em>was relegated to an underdeveloped tertiary role<\/em>. <em>Comeaux&#8217;s analysis raises valuable questions for those interested in the growing &#8220;cinematic universes&#8221; of the Marvel and DC properties.<\/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=\"Birds of Prey and The Identity of Harley Quinn\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m48Y7LqUN34?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>In his consideration of the &#8220;DC Extended Universe&#8221; title Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Marshall Comeaux discusses the challenges inherent to building a robust and unique cinematic narrative for a character like Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), who in her initial DC film appearances (2016&#8217;s Suicide Squad) was relegated to [&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":[227615,227619,227620,227617,227616,227618],"class_list":{"0":"post-275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-birds-of-prey","8":"tag-dc-comics","9":"tag-dc-extended-universe","10":"tag-harley-quinn","11":"tag-margot-robbie","12":"tag-superheroes","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}