tl;dr about Star Wars and Hauntology Fredric Jameson wrote about it years ago:‘(…)one of the most im
tl;dr about Star Wars and Hauntology Fredric Jameson wrote about it years ago:‘(…)one of the most important cultural experiences of the generations that grew up from the ‘30s to the '50swas the Saturday afternoon serial of the Buck Rogers type - alien villains, true American heroes, heroines in distress, the death ray or the doomsday box, and the cliffhanger at the end whose miraculous resolution was to be witnessed next Saturday afternoon. Star Wars reinvents this experience in the form of a pastiche: that is, there is no longer any point to a parody of such serials since they are long extinct. Star Wars(…)satisfies a deep (might I even say repressed?) longing to experience them again: it is a complex object in which on some first level children and adolescents can take the adventures straight, while the adult public is able to gratify a deeper and more properly nostalgic desire to return to that older period and to live its strange old aesthetic artifacts through once again.’(Postmodernism and Consumer Society, 1998)Nothing has really changed since that time. The Force Awakens simply uses modern technology to hide its archaic form. And it’s not just Star Wars - you can see a pattern here. Movies like Drive, Nightcrawler, every single superhero movie, every reboot of a long-forgotten franchise and then a reboot of a reboot and so on and so forth. We live in a culture of retrospection and anachronism. It’s almost like our contemporary society is stuck in some kind of never-ending cycle of nostalgia without ability to produce something new. -- source link
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