{"id":2602,"date":"2019-07-15T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2019-07-15T16:51:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:51:28","slug":"cecilia-sayad-interviewed-by-bbc-bitesize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/07\/15\/cecilia-sayad-interviewed-by-bbc-bitesize\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Sayad interviewed by BBC Bitesize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/sayad.html\">Dr Cecilia Sayad<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/film.html\">Department of Film<\/a>, has just been interviewed for the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bitesize\">Bitesize<\/a> site regarding her expertise on the horror genre.<\/p>\n<p>Bitesize is the BBC\u2019s online support service for students studying GCSE level and equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>The article explores how the film <em>Midsommar\u00a0<\/em>(2019) fits into the wider history of horror films, what makes them scary, and how the genre has changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Having taught horror for many years, I see students have very different reactions to some classics: some find <em>The Exorcist<\/em>, for example, still very scary. The same applies to <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em>, which for some is still a disturbing horror film.\u2019 However, reactions to certain films have changed, even if the story remains relevant: \u2018it would be hard to find someone being too freaked out by James Whale\u2019s <em>Frankenstein<\/em>, from 1931, but this has more to do with the film\u2019s pace than its theme &#8211; which has never been more relevant, now that AI is a much bigger part of our lives.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bitesize\/articles\/zksm8xs\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bitesize\/articles\/zksm8xs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Cecilia Sayad, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, has just been interviewed for the BBC Bitesize site regarding her expertise on the horror &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/07\/15\/cecilia-sayad-interviewed-by-bbc-bitesize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}