Pop Culture Professor: Star Wars Makes an Emotional Connection
December 18, 2015
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Arnold Blumberg, who teaches courses in pop culture in the University of Baltimore's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, tells The Baltimore Sun that the new Star Wars film and others like it "transcend" mere entertainment.
"We just become so emotionally connected to those characters and that universe," says Blumberg, who teaches courses on the popularity of zombies and the Marvel film oeuvre. "These things transcend being an individual film or TV show."
Read the Sun article.
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