{"id":788,"date":"2015-12-23T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=788"},"modified":"2015-12-23T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:41:02","slug":"star-wars-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2015\/12\/23\/star-wars-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076759\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars<\/em> movie<\/a> debuted in 1977 there have been over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/books-and-culture\/its-officially-star-wars-studies-season\" target=\"_blank\">1000 scholarly papers published about themes explored in the Star Wars movie franchise<\/a>. Wow! I bet that many more will soon emerge, given the recent release of the seventh film in the series, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2488496\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/em>. I saw it on Sunday and loved it, even with sky high expectations. The original was the first movie I ever fell in love with, and the first movie I saw more than once. (I viewed it three times in the theaters in the summer of 1977). I will have to re-watch\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2488496\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/em>\u00a0soon, as Sunday&#8217;s viewing was on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imax.com\" target=\"_blank\">IMAX<\/a> screen; it was hard to track everything given that the screen is so large. I&#8217;m also going to resist fancy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/3D_film\" target=\"_blank\">3D<\/a> showings. Old fashioned 2D is the best format for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the original Star Wars movie debuted in 1977 there have been over 1000 scholarly papers published about themes explored in the Star Wars movie franchise. Wow! I bet that many more will soon emerge, given the recent release of the seventh film in the series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I saw it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}