{"625162":{"#nid":"625162","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Nobody\u2019s Watching the Best Giant-Monster Movies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed\u0026nbsp;on \u003Cem\u003EWired\u0026#39;s\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Geek\u0026#39;s Guide to the Galaxy podcast,\u0026quot; August 24.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe recent films\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EI Kill Giants\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EA Monster Calls\u003C\/em\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EColossal\u003C\/em\u003Eeach present an original take on the idea of giant monsters. Science fiction author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sethdickinson.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESeth Dickinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;thinks that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EColossal\u003C\/em\u003E, about a struggling writer who finds herself in control of a city-smashing kaiju, is particularly clever.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It does everything a romantic comedy does, but in a way that reveals how creepy a lot of these rom-com traits are,\u0026rdquo; Dickinson says in Episode 375 of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.geeksguideshow.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeek\u0026rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;podcast. \u0026ldquo;\u003Cem\u003EColossal\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;does an amazing job of taking every single one of these rom-com trajectories and just steering them right into horror, which I loved.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, all three movies failed to connect with audiences. Science fiction professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;suspects that these movies, which deal with serious themes of grief and alienation, may have been too thoughtful for their own good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2019\/08\/geeks-guide-monster-movies\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article\u0026nbsp;and listen to the episode here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-08-26 16:59:40","changed_gmt":"2019-08-26 17:00:04","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"in solidarity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2019\/08\/geeks-guide-monster-movies\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"605632":{"id":"605632","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1524844207","gmt_created":"2018-04-27 15:50:07","changed":"1539181717","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:28:37","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"230934","name":"Lisa Yaszek.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":554289,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek.jpg?itok=qw3DtcgN"}}},"media_ids":["605632"],"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":"10015","name":"Wired"},{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"}],"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":""}}}