{"id":25124,"date":"2010-07-28T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=25124"},"modified":"2010-07-28T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:08:49","slug":"the-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=25124","title":{"rendered":"The Maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Zoller Seitz and Aaron Aradillas has another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingimagesource.us\/articles\/razzle-dazzle-pt-5-the-maverick-20100727\">video essay up in his series on fame<\/a>, and how movies examine fame.  This essay compiles clips showing &#8220;The Maverick&#8221;, as explained in the introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This installment, titled &#8220;The Maverick,&#8221; deals with a disreputable offshoot of the traditional hero: an eloquent, exuberant, often impolite figure who serves as a town crier or truth-teller figure (or seems to). Unlike the traditional hero, The Maverick seems to take a more active role in shaping his image and connecting with the public. He&#8217;s an outsider who uses mass media to articulate the audience&#8217;s fears and yearnings, and whose charisma spurs them to action. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clips from <i>Pump Up the Volume<\/i>, <i>Talk Radio<\/i>, <i>A Face In the Crowd<\/i>, <i>Private Parts<\/i>, <i>Good Morning Vietnam<\/i>, and more.  Give a rebel a microphone and watch the shit hit the fan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingimagesource.us\/articles\/razzle-dazzle-pt-5-the-maverick-20100727\">Go watch the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Zoller Seitz and Aaron Aradillas has another video essay up in his series on fame, and how movies examine fame. This essay compiles clips showing &#8220;The Maverick&#8221;, as explained in the introduction: This installment, titled &#8220;The Maverick,&#8221; deals with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=25124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25165,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25124\/revisions\/25165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}