{"id":14659,"date":"2012-01-19T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:54:51","slug":"communication-popular-culture-and-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/01\/communication-popular-culture-and-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication, Popular Culture and Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book by Barry Grant has been named a <em>Choice<\/em> Outstanding Academic Title, an annual honour bestowed by <em>Choice<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The  publication awarded Grant&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wsupress.wayne.edu\/books\/1146\/Shadows-of-Doubt\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of  Masculinity in American Genre Films<\/em><\/a>, published by Wayne State University  Press in the fall. In the book, Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. He explores genres such as comedies, musicals, horror, science fiction, teen movies and action films.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, a professor of Film Studies, has authored or edited numerous books, including <em>100 Documentary Films<\/em> (with Jim Hillier) and <em>Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book by Barry Grant has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[153,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14678,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/14678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}