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Movies, Music, Star Wars

“Modern fantasy began with the release of George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars’, in 1977, which paid homage to the ‘Flash Gordon’ and ‘Buck Rogers’ serials of the thirties”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020

Modern fantasy began with the release of George Lucas’s “Star Wars,” in 1977, which...

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“It is probably no coincidence that the superhero emerged in the nineteen-thirties, at a time when totalitarian regimes were overrunning Europe and Russia”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020

Wagner’s master array of borrowed, modified, and reinvented archetypes—the wanderer on a ghost ship,...

Movies, Music

“It is an astonishing cultural transformation: the “Ride” remade into an anthem of American supremacy. This displacement is of a piece with other troubling historical continuities of the postwar era: Nazi scientists migrating to America, Gestapo-style torture techniques resurfacing in Iraq, the cult of the sculpted body perpetuating Riefenstahl’s Aryan ideal”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020

It is an astonishing cultural transformation: the “Ride” remade into an anthem of American...

Movies, Music

“‘Apocalypse’ soon became a military fetish object, its Wagner scene influencing real-life behavior”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020

The entrance of the main Valkyrie motif coincides with a wide shot of fourteen...

Movies, Music

“The ‘Ride’ seems a foreordained choice for the helicopter operation in ‘Apocalypse Now'”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020

For decades before Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” aerial warfare had been stirring thoughts of the...

Movies, Star Wars

“…whenever a “Force Awakens” tidbit has been divulged, the reaction has been like food sprinkled over a piranha tank”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2015

Interest in “The Force Awakens” is already so extreme that Disney knows its safest...