{"617681":{"#nid":"617681","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Knights, Horses, and...Hummus?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor at\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;Knights, Horses, and...Hummus?\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESerious Eats.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I emailed with Richard Utz, a medievalist who teaches in the School of Literature, Media, and Communications at Georgia Tech, about the role of authenticity in medieval-inspired entertainment, he identified these details as a foundation of credibility on which to build a myth. \u0026quot;To help suspend disbelief about where the [Medieval Times] castle is and how artificial it looks, a \u0026#39;real\u0026#39; anchor of the \u0026#39;true\u0026#39; family connection is used to assist audiences at feeling a \u0026#39;true\u0026#39; alterity,\u0026rdquo; he wrote. In this way, authenticity itself, in even small doses, becomes a standard feature of fantasy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2019\/02\/medieval-times.html?fbclid=IwAR3BZY_uo8T3C7JX9iDu_x9M7BtLLx86oxCiO9dfsvwa3J0QISAGhkceg_0\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-02-12 17:02:49","changed_gmt":"2019-02-12 17:02:49","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2019\/02\/medieval-times.html?fbclid=IwAR3BZY_uo8T3C7JX9iDu_x9M7BtLLx86oxCiO9dfsvwa3J0QISAGhkceg_0","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404111":{"id":"404111","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1539181964","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:32:44","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"75989","name":"s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29255,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg?itok=dSo1uzO5"}}},"media_ids":["404111"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"33431","name":"Richard Utz"}],"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":""}}}