Kanye and Eisenstein walk into a Methodist Church: The paradoxes of George Lucas
George Lucas’ beginnings as an experimental filmmaker don’t have any impact on the Star Wars films. Or do they?
George Lucas’ beginnings as an experimental filmmaker don’t have any impact on the Star Wars films. Or do they?
It’s a phrase out of the music industry: one-hit wonders. Those bands that come out of nowhere, hit the top of the charts with a catchy – maybe even impressive – single, or have one chart-topping album, and then never seem to be able to hit that sweet spot again. Anybody remember Boston’s second album? …
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Three and a half decades after their breakout successes, they remain arguably two of the most potent brand names in American entertainment and understandably so. Probably more than any other two individuals, they have been – for good or for ill — responsible for a massive reconfiguration of media entertainment, …