Star wars: The hidden empire

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI:10.1111/jpcu.13359

Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Abstract

The remarkable cultural vitality of Star Wars and the subsequent franchise is due in part to the way in which it simultaneously builds on and bolsters the Gramscian “common sense” that America is not an empire. Like the Western, Star Wars uses apolitical individualism to portray political actions as the result of individuals' search for freedom, while representing the galaxy as home to a single, evil Empire. These narrative mechanisms, invite the viewers of Star Wars to think of the United States as a ragtag group of fighters battling an oppressive empire, but not itself an empire.

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星球大战隐藏的帝国

星球大战》及其后续系列电影之所以具有非凡的文化生命力，部分原因在于它同时建立并强化了葛兰西的 "常识"，即美国不是一个帝国。与西部片一样，《星球大战》利用非政治的个人主义将政治行动描绘成个人寻求自由的结果，同时将银河系表现为一个单一、邪恶的帝国的家园。这些叙事机制让《星球大战》的观众认为美国是一群与压迫性帝国作战的弱小战士，但它本身并不是一个帝国。

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期刊介绍： The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world. The fabric of human social life is not merely the art deemed worthy to hang in museums, the books that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies" elite. The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.