"Jameson Collected Works Volume 10, Cultural Turn", 2015.12, P8-9
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Nostalgia Mode - Postmodernism and Consumer Society
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One of the most important cultural experiences of people who grew up in the 1930s and 1950s was the weekend afternoon Rogers-esque series — alien villains, true American heroes, troubled heroines, death Rays or the doomsday box, the last moment is even more tense and thrilling, and the magical rescue is left to the next decomposition. Star Wars recreates this experience in collage. That said, parodies of such series are meaningless because they are long outdated. Far from being a nonsense satire of those dead forms, Star Wars satisfies a deeply (even repressed) desire to revisit them: it is a composite object, some First graders and teens can venture straight out of it, while the adult public can indulge in a deeper and more appropriate nostalgic desire to travel back in time and experience bizarre aesthetic artifacts once again. Thus, the film is a historical or nostalgic film in the metonymic sense, unlike American Graffiti, which does not recreate a realistic overall picture of the past; The sense and form of the art objects (series) specific to the era, trying to evoke a sense of yesterday associated with these objects.
"Jameson Collected Works Volume 10, Cultural Turn", 2015.12, P8-9
"Jameson Collected Works Volume 10, Cultural Turn", 2015.12, P8-9
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope quotes
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General Willard: You're safe. When we heard about Alderaan, we feared the worst.
Princess Leia Organa: We have no time for sorrows, Commander. You must use the information in this R-2 unit to help plan the attack- it's our only hope.
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Princess Leia Organa: I don't know who you are or where you came from, but from now on you'll do as I tell you, okay?