{"id":3947,"date":"2022-03-10T21:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2022-03-10T21:15:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T05:15:28","slug":"i-used-to-read-the-av-club-every-day-and-now-i-dont-read-it-at-all-and-its-probably-not-hard-to-gather-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2022\/03\/10\/i-used-to-read-the-av-club-every-day-and-now-i-dont-read-it-at-all-and-its-probably-not-hard-to-gather-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to read the AV Club every day and now I don&#8217;t read it at all and it&#8217;s probably not hard to gather why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Caroline Siede&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/film\/features\/when-romance-met-comedy\" title=\"I'm sorry but I just do not like The Holiday (2006).\">retrospective analysis of romantic comedy as a film genre<\/a> just wrapped up, after a hundred reviews, and I think they are all worth reading if you can manage three quarters of your browser being occluded by ads. Even when I have drawn different conclusions from Siede I have found her work exemplary, and have in fact used her work as an example when thinking about how to structure longer writing about movies. I can recommend in particular her highlighting of gems like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/this-asian-american-lesbian-love-story-is-one-of-the-be-1846988930\">Saving Face (2004)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-big-sick-lovingly-updated-the-rom-com-formula-with-1824012359\">The Big Sick (2017)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/at-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-for-hip-hop-and-rom-coms-brow-1846201871\">Brown Sugar (2002)<\/a>, and of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/sandra-bullock-became-a-rom-com-star-with-a-cozy-love-s-1840076218\">the movie that guaranteed I would one day fall for a Chicago brunette<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Caroline Siede&#8217;s retrospective analysis of romantic comedy as a film genre just wrapped up, after a hundred reviews, and I think they are all worth reading if you can manage three quarters of your browser being occluded by ads. Even when I have drawn different conclusions from Siede I have found her work exemplary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}