{"id":994,"date":"2010-12-21T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=994"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T18:59:13","slug":"bryan-rommel-ruiz-publishes-american-history-goes-to-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/12\/21\/bryan-rommel-ruiz-publishes-american-history-goes-to-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Rommel-Ruiz Publishes \u201cAmerican History Goes to the Movies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/12\/Rommel-Ruiz-book.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"995\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/12\/21\/bryan-rommel-ruiz-publishes-american-history-goes-to-the-movies\/rommel-ruiz-book\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/12\/Rommel-Ruiz-book.jpg?fit=185%2C278&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"185,278\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rommel Ruiz book\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/12\/Rommel-Ruiz-book.jpg?fit=185%2C278&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/12\/Rommel-Ruiz-book.jpg?fit=185%2C278&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-995\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/12\/Rommel-Ruiz-book-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Associate Professor of History Bryan Rommel-Ruiz has a new book out, titled \u201cAmerican History Goes to the Movies: Hollywood and the American Experience.\u201d The research and writing for the book evolved from the film and history class that he teaches at Colorado College. Using films from many different genres, the book draws together movies that depict the Civil War, the Wild West, the assassination of JFK, and the events of 9\/11, to show how viewers use movies to make sense of the past. \u201cAmerican History Goes to the Movies\u201d addresses not only how we render history for popular enjoyment, but also how Hollywood\u2019s renderings of America influence the way Americans see themselves and how they make sense of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of History Bryan Rommel-Ruiz has a new book out, titled \u201cAmerican History Goes to the Movies: Hollywood and the American Experience.\u201d The research and writing for the book evolved from the film and history class that he teaches at Colorado College. Using films from many different genres, the book draws together movies that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/12\/21\/bryan-rommel-ruiz-publishes-american-history-goes-to-the-movies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bryan Rommel-Ruiz Publishes \u201cAmerican History Goes to the Movies&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,71,160,195,353],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-books","tag-bryan-rommel-ruiz","tag-film","tag-history","tag-publish","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}