![]() ![]() Many Americans-including James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, and Ronald Reagan-associated the problems America faced with the erosion of traditional beliefs and values. ![]() ![]() ![]() Star Wars is more than just a coming-of-age story modeled on medieval and neomedieval romances, of course it is also a product of the late 1970s, a time when Americans were increasingly conscious of their diminishing military power, rising crime, and decreasing standard of living. Not denying those undertones, but I remember a paper from a course I took on heroic medieval literature that claimed that Star Wars appealed to a modern nostalgia for the traditional beliefs and gender roles of the Middle Ages.
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