Comments on: Excerpt from “Glittering Images”

By: Bob Clark

Bob Clark — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:27:18 +0000

I admire Paglia as well, and frankly enjoy much of her stuff (made for more interesting reading than a lot of my dry, undergraduate materials). But I doubt she’d fit in with a fan celebration thing. Maybe if there were more SW happenings that were more for adult fans.

By: lin

lin — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:35:15 +0000

Well, thank you for that, Camille. I hope there’s thousands out there who feel the same way but aren’t hard-core fans and don’t know about forums and sites like this one. Of course the ones who get the play, the hits, the endless quotations are the ones who don’t even know the story that well, but jump on that negative crap bandwagon anyway. Did you know some of them call us “Warsies” as in Trekkies? BARF!

By: may_child

may_child — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:50:08 +0000

Paglia says what other people don’t want to hear, which I admire.

By: lazypadawan

lazypadawan — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:03:04 +0000

There are people who consider Paglia a gadfly, even a troll. I just think she says what she believes and doesn’t care what box it falls into or if it goes against “conventional wisdom.” Like I said, she loves Star Wars and she expresses an unabashed enthusiasm for the saga that even alleged fans have been too cowed into expressing anymore.

I wouldn’t mind Lancashire’s take on ROTS either.

By: oxward321

oxward321 — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:53:01 +0000

Great refreshing read. Thanks. This site is THE best!

By: Bob Clark

Bob Clark — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:32:36 +0000

Pretty much everything else she’s ever said would probably ruffle feathers left and right (figuratively and literally), wouldn’t it? I’m glad to see some more serious academic looks at SW, but she’s controversial on a whole range of sexual and political subjects to say the least. I’d be happy if we could just get Anne Lancashire to finally write a piece on ROTS and finish the good work she started in her previous Film Criticism magazine pieces.