{"id":425,"date":"2014-11-30T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/11\/30\/alternative-programming-return-of-the-fanboys\/"},"modified":"2014-11-30T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T21:29:00","slug":"alternative-programming-return-of-the-fanboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/11\/30\/alternative-programming-return-of-the-fanboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative programming: Return of the fanboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=9542323\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y63voaTohbI\/VHt909c4jJI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/IHLxJJYrYu4\/s1600\/lucas.jpg\" height=\"136\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re back from our Thanksgiving hiatus, and we hope we didn&#8217;t miss any too importa\u2013 is that a new <i>Star Wars<\/i> trailer?!!?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has probably watched the trailer for <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/i> at least once since Friday, and we&#8217;re sure there are varied opinions about whether or not it honors the style and legacy of the biggest franchise in all of media. We thought this would be a great opportunity to highlight a film in our collection about the people who feel very, <b>very<\/b> strongly about the future of <i>Star Wars<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The People vs. George Lucas<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=9542323\">HU DVD 10241<\/a>) is a documentary that captures the incredibly tense dynamic between <i>Star Wars <\/i>fans (who love the series) and Lucasfilm (which owns the series). The <i>Star Wars<\/i> prequel film trilogy was highly negatively received by fans of the series, sparking what amounts to a culture war between its diehard supporters and its creators. <i>The People vs. George Lucas<\/i> examines this conflict and wades into the messy debate over the spiritual ownership of art that becomes&nbsp; asocial phenomenon. It&#8217;s certainly the most insightful and complete work about fan culture and backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a watch to prepare yourself for the inevitable grumbling that&#8217;ll happen over that new, crazy three-pointed lightsaber. Some people are heavily invested in this franchise, and <i>The People vs. George Lucas<\/i> argues that they might really deserve a stake.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from our Thanksgiving hiatus, and we hope we didn&#8217;t miss any too importa\u2013 is that a new Star Wars trailer?!!? Everyone has probably watched the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at least once since Friday, and we&#8217;re sure there are varied opinions about whether or not it honors the style and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}