{"id":211,"date":"2008-07-22T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-07-24T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T20:47:32","slug":"urban-fantasy-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Urban fantasy films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having viewed the last film, the class took a critical look at the film line-up, and none was voted off the syllabus.  <em>Sixth Sense<\/em> perhaps came the closest because so many had seen it before, but they agreed it was worth re-watching and was a perfect fit with the novel <em>Perfect Circle. Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth<\/em>, the newcomer to the course, was very well-received.  After reading their papers on films of their own choosing in which the bleakness of the class films comes up often, I&#8217;ll likely make one change to the syllabus and include at least one comedy.  The current lineup is just too depressing.  I&#8217;m thinking <em>Harvey<\/em> or <em>Groundhog Day<\/em> might brighten things up between the grim and the dark.  We start <em>Kafka on the Shore<\/em> today, and I&#8217;ve heard early grumblings.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having viewed the last film, the class took a critical look at the film line-up, and none was voted off the syllabus. Sixth Sense perhaps came the closest because so many had seen it before, but they agreed it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}