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- How does Star Wars<\/em>, explicitly or allegorically, represent various aspects of Otherness?<\/li>\n
- What does Star Wars<\/em> reveal about our attitudes toward the supernatural?<\/li>\n
- What person(s) or groups does Star Wars<\/em> identify as “other” or stranger? How are such persons\/groups described and treated?<\/li>\n
- What does Star Wars<\/em> reveal about the politics and\/or psychology of terror?<\/li>\n
- How does Star Wars<\/em> respond to or comment upon its own characters, themes, or assumptions?<\/li>\n
- How does Star Wars, <\/em>a piece of media in the Western pop-culture canon, reinforce or undermine the Gothic through its representation of oppression and tyranny?<\/li>\n
- What are the implications of removing Star Wars <\/em>from its original cultural and theatrical contexts in order to view it through a Gothic lens?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tue. 9\/3<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cYou must unlearn what you have learned\u201d (Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>).<\/p>\n
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Small group rhetorical analysis of Star Wars <\/em>propaganda posters. While images certainly contain information, they are not primarily conveyers of this inert information. Rather, images are rhetorically purposeful messages aimed at effecting some change in the reader\u2019s view of the subject. As readers become more aware that images are trying to change their views in some way, we can interrogate them more actively, trying to decide what to accept and what to doubt. What do we learn about the Empire or the Rebellion from reading their propaganda posters?<\/p>\n
- What does Star Wars<\/em> reveal about our attitudes toward the supernatural?<\/li>\n