{"id":2138,"date":"2013-09-10T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2014-07-17T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:03:28","slug":"visually-engaging-tightly-edited-and-well-paced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVisually engaging, tightly edited and well-paced\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Don Rubenstein,\u00a0Professor of Anthropology and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Review published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aems.illinois.edu\/publications\/filmreviews\/insularempire.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Educational Media Service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Insular Empire<\/em>\u00a0is a visually engaging, tightly edited and well-paced film. The film is also thoroughly researched and accurate in its treatment of a lengthy historical chronology and complex political landscape. Buyers of an institutional copy of the film can also get the access code to a 22-page Screening and Study Guide that provides supplementary background material, additional references, links to related websites, and suggestions for setting up film screenings.\u00a0<em>The Insular Empire<\/em>\u00a0is an excellent teaching tool for high school and college classes in American government, history, politics, and Pacific Studies, and for consideration of questions of imperialism, colonialism, and self-determination. This is an important documentary film, which deserves wide viewing and thoughtful discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Rubenstein,\u00a0Professor of Anthropology and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam Review published by Asian Educational Media Service The Insular Empire\u00a0is a visually engaging, tightly edited and well-paced film. The film is also thoroughly researched and accurate in its treatment of a lengthy historical chronology and complex political landscape. Buyers of an institutional copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}