{"id":457,"date":"2019-01-04T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=457"},"modified":"2020-02-12T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:54:20","slug":"most-watched-films-on-kanopy-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2019\/01\/04\/most-watched-films-on-kanopy-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Most-watched films on Kanopy, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> As an interesting FYI, here are the 5 films most watched on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fguides.library.ualberta.ca%2Fdatabases%2Fkanopy&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGBB5VaOAVdpZ3NPdmxwXoDvA1U2w\" target=\"_blank\">Kanopy<\/a>\u00a0in 2018 by the members of the University of Alberta community: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>People Say I&#8217;m Crazy: Schizophrenia from the Inside Out<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<em>&#8220;the only film about schizophrenia ever made by someone with schizophrenia&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Requiem for the American Dream: Discourse with Noam Chomsky<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<em>&#8220;The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time &#8211; the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li><strong>The Battle of Algiers<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8212;<em>&nbsp;&#8220;One of the most influential political films in history&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li><strong>The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Do Not Need<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<em>&#8220;draws attention to the costs (both financial and social) of the relentless search for happiness and identity through spending.&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li><strong>The Illusionists: The Globalization of Beauty&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8212;&nbsp;<em>&#8220;examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves&#8221;<\/em><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, a reminder that nearly four hundred films from the&nbsp;<strong>Criterion Collection<\/strong>, the essential classic film collection, are available on Kanopy (and not, counterintuitively, on the film platform Criterion-on-Demand).\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an interesting FYI, here are the 5 films most watched on\u00a0Kanopy\u00a0in 2018 by the members of the University of Alberta community: People Say I&#8217;m Crazy: Schizophrenia from the Inside Out&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;&#8220;the only film about schizophrenia ever made by someone with schizophrenia&#8221; Requiem for the American Dream: Discourse with Noam Chomsky&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;&#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}