{"id":775,"date":"2015-11-24T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=775"},"modified":"2015-11-24T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:26:59","slug":"media-representations-of-immigrant-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2015\/11\/24\/media-representations-of-immigrant-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Representations of Immigrant Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Pixar film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1979388\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Dinosaur<\/a><\/em> opens this week, and it will be preceded by the short film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4661600\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sanjay&#8217;s Super Team<\/a><\/em>. Pacific Standard magazine has an interesting<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/books-and-culture\/in-praise-of-sanjays-super-team\" target=\"_blank\"> article about the significance of\u00a0<em>Sanjay&#8217;s Super Team<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This seven-minute warm-up to the main attraction breaks lots of new ground for Pixar:\u00a0It&#8217;s the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/asia\/pixars-sanjays-super-team-hits-many-firsts-1201617331\/\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a>\u00a0to feature a non-white lead, a director of Indian descent, and to touch on religion\u2014Hinduism, specifically.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sanjay&#8217;s Super Team<\/em>\u00a0depicts a young boy&#8217;s quest to bridge the generational and cultural gaps between his American and Indian heritage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to see the last<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1951266\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Hunger Games<\/em> movie<\/a> and latest <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocky_(film_series)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rocky<\/em> franchise<\/a> installment &#8212; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3076658\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creed<\/a><\/em> &#8212; but I should also add\u00a0The Good Dinosaur to my list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Pixar film The Good Dinosaur opens this week, and it will be preceded by the short film Sanjay&#8217;s Super Team. Pacific Standard magazine has an interesting article about the significance of\u00a0Sanjay&#8217;s Super Team: This seven-minute warm-up to the main attraction breaks lots of new ground for Pixar:\u00a0It&#8217;s the\u00a0first\u00a0to feature a non-white lead, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214,3504],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}