It was the perfect transferable product in which everyone could find themselves, not just within the US, but worldwide. Star Wars was the product of and for an American society yearning to be free of its own bonds of history and be good again. Star Wars’ abstract and distant location with absolutely no point of reference to humanity or earth culture enabled favourite tropes of the screen to be revisited without the necessity of apology or self-examination or of any danger of alienating a nationality or ethnic group at home or abroad.
The familiar components in the film were the incorporation of multiple elements of beloved genres that were out of step with the cynical post-Watergate, post- Vietnam War, energy crisis world of the mid-1970s.
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