The shift Miller identifies between how audiences responded to 2001 in 1968 and how we would expect them to react 'now' - is a near-perfect illustration of Frederic Jameson's theses about consumer culture and multinational capitalism. For J…Star Wars is metonymically implicated in late capitalism in a way that 2001 never quite could be. What was bought and sold when audiences consumed Star Wars was not in any sense a single (aesthetic) object, but a world, a hype[r]verse. It i…
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Miller appears in these readings as a theorist who tracked the historical shift in how audiences engaged with science fiction cinema—specifically contrasting the reception of 2001 in 1968 versus contemporary viewing. The excerpts invoke Miller's observations to ground an argument about how consumer capitalism fundamentally altered the relationship between spectators and blockbuster aesthetics, with Star Wars exemplifying a new logic of franchise worlds rather than discrete artworks.
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