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UNLOCKED - The Galactic Vietnam w/ Daniel Immerwahr
American Prestige
English - October 26, 2022 16:49 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 594 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Danny and Derek welcome back Daniel Immerwahr, professor of history at Northwestern University, to talk about about his new essay, “The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars”. They discuss the ideological projects of Lucas’ early work, Star Wars as a “Vietnam film”, its characters’ real-life counterparts, the franchise’s orientalism, and more.
Check out Daniel’s chapter in the volume Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories.
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