Danny and Derek welcome back Daniel Immerwahr, professor of history at Northwestern University, to talk about about his new essay, “The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars”. They discuss the ideological projects of Lucas’ early work, Star Wars as a “Vietnam film”, its characters’ real-life counterparts, the franchise’s orientalism, and more.
Check out Daniel’s chapter in the volume Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories.
UNLOCKED - The Galactic Vietnam w/ Daniel Immerwahr
This episode was so deep into the weeds I needed Ortho and a Black & Decker weed whacker. If the first question has me baffled, it's time to skip. Next time you make an episode targeted at 12 people, please put this in the sub header. 😴