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Ironically, the direst predictions about the fate of the blockbuster come from the man whose mega-grossing films helped coin the term, George Lucas. In a recent interview with New York Daily News, the “Star Wars?? mogul predicted that by 2025 the average budget of a studio film would be $15 million—less than most A-list stars’ asking salaries...
...deep down, audiences want blockbusters. They are unique in their ability to unite vast numbers of individuals through a common cultural experience. The fanboys who camped outside of theaters to be first in line for the “Star Wars?? prequels, the teenaged girls who watched and re-watched “Titanic” with their friends, and the office workers gathered around the water cooler all illustrate the social importance of the blockbuster; though the form may fall in and out of favor, it is too socially vital to ever go extinct...
...high school science-fiction club. Before you know it, they will admit that they kind of, sort of, held the office of president. Because these geek-tendencies have less of an academic basis, often only close friends are privy to the geek’s “Star Wars?? fascination...
...courses on midwifery and quilting. As the author of a rather well-known book on an 18th-century midwife, I knew when I had been zinged. Complaints about the abandonment of the Revolution have little to do with Harvard, however. They ultimately derive from the “History Wars?? of the 1990s, a period when National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Lynne Cheney and others denounced “revisionist historians” who supposedly wanted to replace the Founding Fathers with figures like Harriet Tubman...
...collapse toward the bottom of the barrel.THE GREAT EQUALIZERSMenand, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, says that he put the George Lucas movie on his syllabus not because of its intrinsic artistic value, but because of its social context. “ ‘Star Wars?? is an important movie in the history of movie making,” he says. “In terms of cultural history, it’s an important moment.” John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Jason Kaufman, who teaches Sociology...