{"id":7187,"date":"2015-12-15T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2015-12-15T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:41:46","slug":"recovering-a-star-wars-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"Recovering a Star Wars Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kalexanderson\/6699989495\/in\/photolist-bd4csg-djp34W-9aWUfi-67orhP-rpJax1-eRgJHr-o62zzh-8Bqtu6-nEPjeT-boHtt8-sutrtM-5GRZ1G-2FHbuC-9hNTVz-5LG6Ym-a6bWZn-pNsqAG-86N3My-8yv52G-q9aRCT-4Qcf7N-54Gb99-rasCNo-r7YHpE-tbMSd4-eRtbF9-eRgNen-boHQMF-suvgHV-8yv5uE-8ys2Cn-uJaUF8-8yv5mW-boHQZ6-7AZejH-bD5sPQ-4vfQyr-48gXLn-eRtavs-sC2cXk-heCvr3-rTxgp-eRgT3D-59hKzj-44fvsW-5HNBF6-9UMK82-eRgPFT-tbxiPw-i1ekAC\" title=\"Star Wars play in the morning light\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7169\/6699989495_7ca26d7cde_q.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"float:left; margin:6px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Star Wars play in the morning light\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Andrew Barber says, &#8220;I don\u2019t want Jedi; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/star-wars-childhood-revisited\">I want my childhood back<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to Charles Taylor\u2019s work\u00a0<em>A Secular Age<\/em>, I\u2019ve come to believe the most important question about big entertainment is not \u201cwhat is this movie\/videogame\/album about?\u201d but \u201cwhat is it <em>for<\/em>?\u201d I don\u2019t think we need another article analyzing the nitty-gritty thematic details of <em>Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0It is a simple, well-told tale of good versus evil with memorable characters and mammoth effects.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m interested in is the function of <em>Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0When thousands of fans line\u00a0up outside of theaters\u00a0on December 17 to see <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens <\/em>(of which I will be one), what will it be <em>for<\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His post links to another one, reviewing a presentation of Charles Taylor&#8217;s <em>A Secular Age<\/em> with an application to the Star Wars prequels. What went wrong with those first three episodes added onto the\u00a0well-loved space epic? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/a-portal-into-a-secular-age-or-why-the-star-wars-prequels-sucked\">Mike Cosper blames secularism.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original trilogy, in all the ways it left questions open and invited imagination, in the way it used effects in a sparing way, was enchanted. It was an open world with questions to explore and a sense of the unknown. The prequels, then, made the mistake of disenchanting the world. The mysteries all had answers. Even the overwhelming presence of CGI has a \u201csecular age\u201d parallel: the overwhelming culture of production and consumption. When every moment is a visual feast, nothing is worth celebrating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Barber says, &#8220;I don\u2019t want Jedi; I want my childhood back.&#8221; Thanks to Charles Taylor\u2019s work\u00a0A Secular Age, I\u2019ve come to believe the most important question about big entertainment is not \u201cwhat is this movie\/videogame\/album about?\u201d but \u201cwhat is it for?\u201d I don\u2019t think we need another article analyzing the nitty-gritty thematic details of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recovering a Star Wars Childhood<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[2527,2648],"class_list":["post-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-secularism","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}