Journal article
New world, old habits: Patriarchal ideology in Star Wars: A new hope
Australian Screen Education Online, Vol.30, pp.135-138
2002
Abstract
Although Star Wars depicts a new world, it is one permeated with the ideology of an old one. If films are the ‘unconscious instruments of the ideology, which produces them Lucas ‘portrayed a world not dissimilar in its ideology to the world he grew up in’. Therefore, the values we associate with white middle-class California of the 1950s, which include sexism, racism and the promotion of a patriarchal, capitalist culture, are prevalent in Star Wars. Indeed, Lucas admits his desire to return to the values of the 1950s, ‘I wanted to make a kids’ film that would … introduce a kind of basic morality’.
Details
- Title
- New world, old habits: Patriarchal ideology in Star Wars: A new hope
- Authors/Creators
- K. Ellis (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Australian Screen Education Online, Vol.30, pp.135-138
- Publisher
- Australian Teachers of Media
- Identifiers
- 991005544174407891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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