{"587985":{"#nid":"587985","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Aliens as Immigrants: How \u2018Arrival\u2019 Became the Latest Political Sci-Fi Film","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJay Telotte and Lisa Yaszek, professors in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Commuincation, were quoted in \u0026ldquo;Aliens as Immigrants: How \u0026lsquo;Arrival\u0026rsquo; Became the Latest Political Sci-Fi Film\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Washington Post.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJay Telotte, a Georgia Tech professor who studies science fiction film and TV, says that political metaphors can be found in genre films of all sorts. In Westerns and musicals, he says, \u0026ldquo;the same thing happens \u0026mdash; you find ways of displacing your anxieties and putting them into this other form. It\u0026rsquo;s not as threatening, and certainly it\u0026rsquo;s not as polemical.\u0026rdquo;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/aliens-as-immigrants-how-arrival-became-the-latest-political-sci-fi-film\/2017\/02\/23\/b9975f08-f83e-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html?utm_term=.55b655bca143\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-02-27 17:09:03","changed_gmt":"2017-02-27 17:09:03","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/aliens-as-immigrants-how-arrival-became-the-latest-political-sci-fi-film\/2017\/02\/23\/b9975f08-f83e-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html?utm_term=.55b655bca143","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"283491":{"id":"283491","type":"image","title":"Jay Telotte","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894976","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:36","alt":"Jay Telotte","file":{"fid":"198983","name":"img_42.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_42_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_42_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2019,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_42_0.jpg?itok=fl4Oden6"}},"574391":{"id":"574391","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek - Professor and Associate Chair","body":null,"created":"1473359548","gmt_created":"2016-09-08 18:32:28","changed":"1475895383","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:23","alt":"Lisa Yaszek - Professor and Associate Chair","file":{"fid":"207178","name":"lisa_2_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lisa_2_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lisa_2_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4005135,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lisa_2_headshot.jpg?itok=60UFVPP1"}}},"media_ids":["283491","574391"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}