I think... hmm. I do think Star Wars is in the canon - although it's not in some artfilm-style The Canon. Maybe I should call it the pop canon: it's the canon of popular culture, and it's formed of all the films that mass popular media assumes you've already seen (and if you haven't seen them you should), all of the records that mass popular media assumes you've already heard (but might need a reminder of). It's not quite a canon of critical consensus, it's a canon of 'things everyone just knows': the stuff people would call any of us out for not knowing about.
I dislike the idea of calling it 'the poptimist canon' because to me the poptimist canon is this thing we're creating here, now, out of fites and polls and tickyboxes and shared mp3s and clubnights, something specific to a certain social group, to us. There are certain things which are held-in-common important to a lot of us, whose importance I've never really felt outside this group - the love of saint etienne that turned out to pervade ilm, for example. 'year 3000' is busted's best-loved song among other people I know, it gets a reaction like no other, but I don't think of it as the best-loved in the pmists lj community?
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Re: Hmmm
Date: 2007-02-15 02:58 pm (UTC)I dislike the idea of calling it 'the poptimist canon' because to me the poptimist canon is this thing we're creating here, now, out of fites and polls and tickyboxes and shared mp3s and clubnights, something specific to a certain social group, to us. There are certain things which are held-in-common important to a lot of us, whose importance I've never really felt outside this group - the love of saint etienne that turned out to pervade ilm, for example. 'year 3000' is busted's best-loved song among other people I know, it gets a reaction like no other, but I don't think of it as the best-loved in the pmists lj community?
Re: Hmmm
Date: 2007-02-15 02:59 pm (UTC)Re: Hmmm
Date: 2007-02-15 03:10 pm (UTC)