{"id":805,"date":"2011-11-28T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/11\/the-making-of-the-artist.html"},"modified":"2011-11-28T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:12:00","slug":"the-making-of-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/11\/the-making-of-the-artist.html","title":{"rendered":"The Making of The Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_HadgeccLfk\/TtQVKKDBASI\/AAAAAAAABNY\/dYQ7kZi2iro\/s1600\/The-Artist-poster.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_HadgeccLfk\/TtQVKKDBASI\/AAAAAAAABNY\/dYQ7kZi2iro\/s1600\/The-Artist-poster.png\"><\/a>SOMETIMES it takes the French to appreciate the best aspects of American culture. Whether it&#8217;s jazz, detective novels or the films of Howard Hawks, the Gauls have often seen something in our own art that we&#8217;ve overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>The silent, black and white movie The Artist is the latest example. It&#8217;s an homage to American cinema of the &#8217;20s and early &#8217;30s. I wrote an extensive feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/the-artist-oscar-black-white-silent-266428\">HERE<\/a> for the Hollywood Reporter that looks at how an outlandish idea by director Michel Hazanavicius became a\u00a0damned fine movie and a credible Oscar contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMETIMES it takes the French to appreciate the best aspects of American culture. Whether it&#8217;s jazz, detective novels or the films of Howard Hawks, the Gauls have often seen something in our own art that we&#8217;ve overlooked. The silent, black and white movie The Artist is the latest example. It&#8217;s an homage to American cinema [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,124,148,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"category-french","8":"category-hollywood-reporter","9":"category-los-angeles","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}