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E-book Critique of Fantasy : Between a Crypt and a Datemark

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I have touched down in the Star Wars franchise on several occa-sions to illustrate a historical paradox I once dared name “Nazi Psychoanalysis.”1 Let me say right off that this study will not look more closely at the Star Wars movies.2 Instead, it will explore a terrain between the science fiction and fantasy genres that the success of George Lucas’s 1977 film illuminated and which remains to this day the cradle of blockbuster culture. Orbiting around the B-line I will continue to make in this introduction, examples abound of what might be termed the “Star Wars Effect.” Roland Emmerich, who was originally enrolled in film school in Germany to become a producer, switched his career goal to directing when he saw Star Wars. Did it take a German to recognize Lucas’s refurbishing of Allied pro-paganda films? The Death Star, the unbeatable foe, is brought down by a makeshift alliance of unlikely victors, who win as losers, not as winners. That’s Lucas’s remix of the formula: to win as winner would be tantamount to filling the position the Nazis forever occupy in the global culture industry. If losers continue to prevail against empires of evil as the good and the brave, then the Nazis keep on winning as unrepentant win-ners. The 2020 pandemic incited US news anchors to cite from the famous broadcasts Churchill delivered during the Battle of Britain and encourage a population endangered by and as losers to rally around the prospect that they were now living Star Wars. Star Wars turned propaganda hype into archetype. Emmerich’s blockbuster Independence Day (1996) testified to the instruction he took down from Star Wars.The success of Lucas’s movie encouraged the Bond franchise to hitch to its star the one Ian Fleming fiction that was exception-ally and untenably close to World War Two: Moonraker (1955). At the end of the movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), the next Bond film to be coming soon was already announced to be For Your Eyes Only (1981), the first film to turn to the short stories for material and title. But Star Wars placed Moonraker back on the books-to-film shelf. The producers recognized a way around the novel’s direct hit of Nazi vengeance. In the 1979 movie, Sir Hugo Drax operates out of California from within a network of facilities for research and construction of space shuttle-like transportation next door to the French chateau he transferred to the American West stone by stone, like London Bridge.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

150.195 RIC c

Penerbit

USA : Punctum books., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

255 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781950192922

Klasifikasi

150.195

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

vol. I

Subjek

Psychoanalysis

Info Detail Spesifik

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