{"623942":{"#nid":"623942","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What \u0022Yesterday\u0022 \u2014 and Everyone Else \u2014 Forgets About the Beatles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/jay-bolter\u0022\u003EJay Bolter\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and director of computational media at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote\u0026nbsp;an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;What \u0026quot;Yesterday\u0026quot; \u0026mdash; and Everyone Else \u0026mdash; Forgets About the Beatles\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESalon\u003C\/em\u003E, July 29.\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\u003EFans of Richard Curtis\u0026rsquo; rom-coms (and based on his box office numbers there must be tens of millions) will find in \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/06\/28\/a-beatles-expert-on-yesterday-is-danny-boyles-jukebox-fantasy-worthy-of-the-fab-four\/\u0022\u003EYesterday\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Emany of the pleasures that drew them to \u0026quot;Four Weddings and a Funeral,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;Notting Hill,\u0026quot; \u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Love, Actually\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;and \u0026quot;Bridget Jones\u0026rsquo;s Diary.\u0026quot; This film, however, has a fantasy dimension that the others did not. An unsuccessful singer-composer, Jack Malik, awakens from a bicycle accident into a world in which the Beatles never existed. Their catalog of songs is gone, and after a moment of moral hesitation, Jack resolves to present them as his own. In \u0026quot;Yesterday\u0026quot;\u0026rsquo;s universe, these quintessential 1960s songs are as popular as they were in our universe, and make Jack an overnight star.\u0026nbsp; Some critics have liked \u0026quot;Yesterday,\u0026quot; but many were disappointed that the film does not treat its clever premise more seriously \u0026mdash; or that the film squanders the opportunity to explore the meaning of the Beatles\u0026#39; music today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/07\/29\/what-yesterday-and-everyone-else-forgets-about-the-beatles\/\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":"2019-08-01 22:50:26","changed_gmt":"2019-08-01 22:50:26","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Terry Maple","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/07\/29\/what-yesterday-and-everyone-else-forgets-about-the-beatles\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"232101":{"id":"232101","type":"image","title":"jay bolter","body":null,"created":"1449243627","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:40:27","changed":"1475894906","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:26","alt":"jay bolter","file":{"fid":"197576","name":"img_29.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_29_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_29_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2261,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_29_0.jpg?itok=P_VLGGY-"}}},"media_ids":["232101"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1598","name":"Jay Bolter"}],"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":""}}}