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'Star Wars' Video Essay Examines The Assault On The First Death Star

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens just landing the biggest opening weekend of all time , it's clear that the appeal of tales from a galaxy far, far away is still high. And since the new sequel shares quite a few story beats and similarities with the original Star Wars from 1977, there's no better time to look back at what made one of the most iconic sequences in the movie work so well.

A new installment of The Discarded Image takes an in-depth look at the Death Star assault from Star Wars: A New Hope , taking into account the political climate of the time, technical aspects such as sound design, John Williams ' iconic score and the change in George Lucas ' storytelling style when compared to his previous filmmaking endeavors.

Here's Julian Palmer's The Discarded Image: Episode 5 – Star Wars (via The Playlist ):

After you've seen a movie so many times, you begin to take for granted the nuances of any given scene that make it so great. So it's always refreshing to dive into a movie and break down the pieces that make it work so well.

In the case of Star Wars , the innovations that Lucas was forced into making by a combination of ambitious vision and limited budget resulted in some of the most brilliant, original filmmaking cinema has ever seen, and some of the most spectacular work that came from it can be seen in the above climactic sequence. It's that kind of work that inspired Lucas to go on to create such as Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic, which have been responsible for even more groundbreaking filmmaking techniques.The only downside to this Star Wars video essay diving into the perfect of the first Death Star assault is we begin to notice some of the shortcomings of retreading familiar territory in The Force Awakens . But it's probably not enough to ruin the latter movie for fans.

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Star Wars Fan Films, Documentaries & Video Essays to Get You Ready for Star Wars: The Force Awakens ">16 Great Star Wars Fan Films, Documentaries & Video Essays to Get You Ready for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Have you had enough Star Wars yet? No, you will nev­er have enough Star Wars , not even after you’ve acquired the Star Wars dinette set, Star Wars bed and bath col­lec­tion, $400 Star Wars Lego Death Star ,  Star Wars chick­en frank­furter snack with built-in ketchup  (seri­ous­ly)… and that’s not even to men­tion the first six movies , re-released every few years in new for­mats and expand­ed edi­tions.

Yeah, the mer­chan­dis­ing may be a lit­tle much; with the inau­gur­al film of the reboot­ed fran­chise open­ing dur­ing the hol­i­days, it’s a feed­ing fren­zy, no doubt. But for true fans, no amount of crass mate­ri­al­ism can put a damper on the enthu­si­asm, and yes, the anx­i­ety, for Star Wars: The Force Awak­ens . Will it eclipse our painful mem­o­ries of the pre­quels? Will Episode VII rekin­dle the mag­ic of Episodes IV-VI (for­mer­ly Episodes I‑III)? By near­ly all accounts, J.J. Abrams reimag­in­ing of the George Lucas lega­cy does all of the above .

To help you pre­pare for open­ing night (I’ve got my tick­ets!), we’ve com­piled some of our top Star Wars posts, fea­tur­ing all man­ner of doc­u­men­tary explain­ers, fan homages, inter­views, par­o­dies, remix­es, etc. From the dead­ly seri­ous to the ridicu­lous, per­haps no pop­u­lar movie prop­er­ty has attract­ed as much com­men­tary and meta-com­men­tary as Star Wars . That isn’t like­ly to change any­time soon, what with the Star Wars uni­verse again expand­ing into infin­i­ty. Before you take the leap for­ward into its future, revis­it its past at the links below.

Doc­u­men­tary Fea­tures and Archival Footage:

Watch the Very First Trail­ers for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi (1976–83)  (see the first above)

The Mak­ing of Star Wars As Told by C‑3PO & R2-D2: The First-Ever Doc­u­men­tary on the Film (1977)

Kurt Rus­sell Audi­tions for Star Wars

The Mak­ing of The Empire Strikes Back Show­cased on Long-Lost Dutch TV Doc­u­men­tary

The Com­plete Star Wars “Fil­mu­men­tary”: A 6‑Hour, Fan-Made Star Wars Doc­u­men­tary, with Behind-the-Scenes Footage & Com­men­tary

How Star Wars Bor­rowed From Aki­ra Kurosawa’s Great Samu­rai Films

2 Hour Anno­tat­ed Star Wars Film Reveals the Cin­e­mat­ic Influ­ences Behind George Lucas’ Clas­sic Film

Joseph Camp­bell and Bill Moy­ers Break Down Star Wars as an Epic, Uni­ver­sal Myth

Star Wars is a Remix

Adap­ta­tions, Fan Films, and Par­o­dies:

Hard­ware Wars: The Moth­er of All Star Wars Fan Films (and the Most Prof­itable Short Film Ever Made)

Fans Recon­struct Authen­tic Ver­sion of Star Wars, As It Was Shown in The­aters in 1977

Star Wars Uncut: The Epic Fan Film

The Empire Strikes Back Uncut: A New Fan-Made, Shot-for-Shot Remake of the 1980 Sci-Fi Clas­sic

The Exis­ten­tial Star Wars: Sartre Meets Darth Vad­er

Star Wars as Silent Film

Watch a New Star Wars Ani­ma­tion, Drawn in a Clas­sic 80s Japan­ese Ani­me Style

And final­ly, if you’ve got the stom­ach for it and you want to catch up on the last six Star Wars films—or watch them all for the first time—you can do so all at once in the mind-bend­ing Meta Star Wars , which lay­ers all six films over each oth­er to cre­ate a psy­che­del­ic onslaught of whoosh­ing space­ships, droid bleeps and bloops, and flash­ing blasters and lightsabers. You won’t come away from the expe­ri­ence, if you can stand it, with any sense of plot or char­ac­ters, but you’ll have an inti­mate knowl­edge of the Star Wars uni­verse’s many unique sound effects.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Watch George Lucas’ Award-Win­ning Stu­dent Film Elec­tron­ic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967)

Free: Down­load 151 Sci-Fi & Fan­ta­sy Sto­ries from Tor.com

Blade Run­ner is a Waste of Time: Siskel & Ebert in 1982

Josh Jones  is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC. Fol­low him at  @jdmagness

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Watch: 9-Minute Video Essay Explores Story Structure Through ‘Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi’

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Earlier today the inherent “ Star Wars : The Force Awakens ” fever grew rampant when lots of new images were released , but if you’re like me, the anticipation for the new films keeps the old ones subconsciously present. Now, ‘Star Wars’ may be known for many things — intergalactic droids, robotic voices, laser beam doohickeys, amongst others — but its structure and dialogue are not typically among the most popular.

READ MORE: New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ TV Spot Reveals More Epic Footage

In a new essay from  Frame by Frame , the “beats” in “ Return of the Jedi ” are explored, as is the importance of a well-structured screenplay. These “beats” are emotional changes in characters that are oftentimes simple, but convey monumental feelings crucial to the plot of the story. When Luke Skywalker goes tête-à-tête with his father Darth Vader, there are several moments where the attitude of both characters change; we get an up-close view of the thought processes and internal feelings we normally wouldn’t.

Ever think such brazen lessons could be learned from a masked man who blows up planets and a handless jedi who once kissed his sister? Neither did I. Can you think of any other “beats” in the “Star Wars” universe? Let us know in the comments below.

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Interview: New collection of Star Wars essays informs and inspires

By eric clayton | sep 30, 2023.

I was in seventh grade when I stumbled upon Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine in my local—and now deceased—Borders bookstore. I was amazed and very much in over my head.

But still, the notion that my favorite franchise had something to say about ethics, power, democracy, and justice beyond the simple flash of dueling lightsabers was groundbreaking to my young mind. I gobbled that book up in the same way I gobbled up the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novels.

Many years and many canon and legends tales later, I’m still struck by what Star Wars says about our very real, completely canon, and not all legendary lives. I’ve read books, essays, and articles on how Star Wars intersects with Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and Daoism. I’ve interviewed theologians on the topic of Star Wars and Christian thought. And I’ve participated in the inspiring digital conference, “Realizing Resistance,” where academics from around the world talked about how lessons learned from a galaxy far, far away are quite applicable to our own environment, history, culture, and relationships.

It was at that same conference where I met Emily Strand and Dr. Amy Sturgis, two of my fellow conference presenters. Emily, a member of the 501st and Rebel Legions international Star Wars costuming associations, has a background in and teaches college-level courses on world religions. Amy’s research is on the intellectual history of speculative fiction, and she teaches at Lenoir-Rhyne University and Signum University. Both have published many books and articles, including the new Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away .

The collection of essays is remarkable. Amy Richau examines the evolution of Twi’leks while John Jackson Miller tackles the sticky topic of canon. There are essays on video games, worldbuilding, and the depiction of motherhood. As Ian Doescher writes in the Foreword, “With each page, you smile at familiar references, you grapple with new ideas, you reshape your thoughts and beliefs, and you emerge with a new understanding and appreciation.”

Emily and Amy kindly shared their experience working on this project in an interview we conducted via email. As Emily says, “Academic writing on popular culture works because it represents not just one person’s ‘take’ but a community’s conversation. … [These] conversations are not rushing to be the first to notice something about the text, but consider what many people have noticed and draw specific conclusions about what it all means to enhance our enjoyment.”

“Star Wars is both timeless and timely, inspired by history and informed by the present,” Amy says. “Working on this project has left me with fresh energy as I contemplate new works of Star Wars storytelling.”

I believe the reflections Emily and Amy share in our conversation will inspire you, too, as we fans continue to integrate all Star Wars stories—old, new, forthcoming, and forgotten—into our work, relationships, and lives.

Eric: Why should fans care about approaching Star Wars through an academic lens? How does this deepen fandom and our understanding of Star Wars? 

Amy: I wouldn’t presume to tell fans what they should or shouldn’t do but as a fan myself (since 1977!) as well as an academic, I can say that scholars who come from different disciplines with diverse tools and training find a variety of questions to ask of Star Wars that I myself wouldn’t think to pose — and the answers they find enhance my understanding and appreciation of the franchise. What these essays provide together is a snapshot of 46 years of transmedia Star Wars storytelling and the discussions it has launched, and that kind of big-picture perspective is valuable to have, no matter your entry point into the universe. I hope the questions raised here also serve as an invitation to readers to join in and continue the dialogue. This isn’t the first anthology of essays on Star Wars, and it won’t be the last, but my wish is that fans will find it deep in its investigations and broad in its implications, accessible and insightful, and — most of all — welcoming, a springboard for more thought and conversation about the stories they love.

Emily: There are countless YouTube (etc.) accounts solely for the purpose of providing analysis of popular stories. So why do we need academic writing like this? I appreciate academic writing on popular culture works because it represents not just one person’s “take” but a community’s conversation. One person writes a piece, another person (often several!) makes suggestions or challenges a particular insight, and the work changes in response. Even after a work is published, another scholar may disagree with it or want to add to it, and eventually they respond formally in their own published piece, or on an academic blog, etc. Thus the conversation continues. And the pace is different too—academic conversations are not rushing to be the first to notice something about the text, but they consider what many people have noticed (including non-academic sources) and draw specific conclusions about what it all means to enhance our enjoyment of franchises like Star Wars. Ultimately, Star Wars is a creative endeavor, a communicative endeavor. Academic writing on it asks and answers the question: what is it communicating? Is it communicating it well? What could it communicate? These big questions excite and engage me as a fan more than “hot takes” and “breakdowns.” But, as Amy said, to each his own!

Eric: Which essay most changed how you view Star Wars? What of your experience of Star Wars did it change and why?

Amy: I find the subject of gaming to be overlooked and underserved in scholarship generally. Because of this, I was especially delighted to learn from Aaron Masters about how the choices and consequences embedded in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords invite deep questioning and contemplation of the foundational ideas of Star Wars. In addition, by looking at the game of Sabacc both inside Star Wars stories and outside of them, in the real world as played by fans, Jennifer Russell-Long gave me a new appreciation of how games relate to community experience and cultural memory. That said, every one of the essays in this anthology changed how I view Star Wars. It was a privilege to help put all of these works by our expert essayists out into the galaxy.

Emily: This is a tough question because in some way, all the essays changed my thinking on Star Wars. That is—to me—the mark of a good academic piece: It’s perspective-shaping in its argument and it’s persuasive in its support for that argument. A few great examples of that in the book have to do with the roles of female characters: Amy Richau’s chapter on Twi’leks, Vikki Terrile’s chapter on makers in the Disney era, and Éloïse Thompson-Tremblay’s article on mothers. Each shows diverse aspects of women’s representation in Star Wars, and in the complexity and thoroughness with which they treat their subjects, they don’t allow for facile conclusions about women in a galaxy far, far away. They demonstrate that “it’s complicated,” and they also show that the depiction of women in Star Wars is evolving—and that’s exciting to think about.

Eric: In his foreword, Ian Doescher writes: “You make connections because Star Wars is part of your identity, and you want it to speak to your other interests.” What “other” interests has Star Wars spoken to in your own lives? How has it deepened those interests? 

Amy: Star Wars has been in conversation with Star Trek in my head since I was very young, and the two continue to complement and contrast with each other in ways that challenge and inspire me. They’ve made me a lifelong student and devotee of speculative fiction. While each franchise suggests a very different view of history, both agree that we must be deeply aware of and thoughtful about what has happened before if we hope to make a positive impact on what comes next. The way these franchises comment on history and ask us to consider its patterns helped lead me to become a professional historian. I now take great joy in teaching and writing about history through speculative fiction, especially through Star Wars and Star Trek.

Emily: I came to Star Wars relatively late—as an adult. And I came to it as a gigantic Harry Potter fan. So I saw Star Wars through a Harry Potter lens. For instance, I love Star Wars Rebels because it really spoke to me as a Harry Potter fan: a magical, orphaned kid finds a new family and fights a super creepy bad guy who represents and enacts systematic oppression—those parallels seem intentional. We think of Star Wars as the “ur text” for pop culture phenomena, but it’s interesting to view it as influenced by other, later stories, like Potter. Kathryn N. McDaniel’s piece in our book draws wonderfully on these same assumptions in the way it parallels Rey in the Sequel films with Harry, in their character arcs and their growth into their roles as heroes.

Eric: What other avenues for Star Wars inquiry has this project opened up in your mind? What questions do you want answered next…and why?

Amy: I want to know what comes next for Star Wars! The essays in our anthology highlight points of continuity and evolution in Star Wars storytelling over time and across different formats, and their insights encourage me to continue to dig deeper. I’m particularly intrigued by how recent Star Wars works have sharpened the focus on those who are not Jedi or Sith but instead everyday people trying to survive. More than ever, I am interested in exploring how Star Wars creators and fans together are asking big questions about important subjects — about authoritarianism and control, for example, and resilience and resistance. In short, Star Wars is both timeless and timely, inspired by history and informed by the present, and working on this project has left me with fresh energy as I contemplate new works of Star Wars storytelling, why they matter and speak to us, and how their ideas will follow me into my research, classroom, and fandom community.

Emily: I hope to keep exploring the spiritual elements of Star Wars in ways that help fans understand ourselves and our instinctive reactions of wonder (as Ian Doescher puts it so well in the book’s foreword) and how we can foster that sense of wonder in other areas of life—to our and to society’s benefit. I’ve also gotten involved in Star Wars costuming in the last few years, and it’s been a great source of joy for me. But I also find the culture of it fascinating, and I can envision pursuing academic work that draws on the experience of being “embedded” with my local costuming communities. Ethnography could be a really interesting way to explore what motivates and drives these talented makers of costumes and props from a galaxy far, far away.

Learn more about the book, Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away , and visit the editors’ official pages: Emily Strand and Amy Sturgis . 

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At times, the main stumbling stone of students appears right at the beginning of writing an essay. We mean the selection of a good topic. Not all students are good with it and so frequently select boring or irrelevant topics. If your title cannot grab the attention of your readers, no one would like to read it. Sometimes students cannot generate great topic ideas because the theme isn’t easy for them. You may be surprised, but many youngsters cannot pick good topics about Star Wars argumentative essays.

This is one of the most popular and successful movie sagas in the world. Millions of people from across the globe adore it and students surely like it. In the meanwhile, many of them aren’t able to figure out what issues to cover, even though the saga involves very important themes that are relevant at all times. Some youngsters even seek professional essay writing help offered by a top-rated company.

For example, CustomWritings is a reliable and legit essay writing service . It offers all kinds of academic features, including professional writing help with selecting topics. Yet, you may go a different way. Perhaps you simply need some good examples of what makes a good topic for a Star Wars argumentative essay. This informative guide sheds light on this crucial matter. Consider the following ideas:

• The role of power in Star Wars.
• Failure of Star Wars the Last Jedi Franchise.
• The conflict of Light and Dark in Star Wars.
• Why did the last episode of Star Wars fail?
• How does Disney use Star Wars?
• The impact of Star Wars on pop culture.
• Why is the franchise Star Wars that popular?
• Star Wars vs. Star Trek.
• The role of heroes in Saga: Star Wars.
• Was it possible to prevent young Enakin Skywaker from falling into the dark?
• Reasons why all Jedi knights failed.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi is the greatest hero among Jedi.
• The main motif of Episode I: Phantom Menace.
• Why is antagonist Boba Fett that popular?
• Han Solo and his contribution to the victory of the Jedi.
• The place of love in George Lucas’s saga Star Wars.
• Books about Star Wars and their influence on children.
• Myth and romance in Star Wars.
• Why are robots that important in Star Wars movies?
• The role of faith in Star Wars.
• Master Yoda: the greatest Jedi ever.
• Incredible heroism in Star Wars: Rogue One.
• Why do people choose the Dark Side according to Star Wars?
• Is it right that Jedi should never marry?
• The genesis of Star Wars.
• The Emperor could be stopped if Jedi refuse the help of clones.
• The power of prophecy in Star Wars.
• The impact of the Star Wars franchise on cinematography.
• Will Star Wars remain popular in 50 years?
• Star Wars is the best franchise.

You are welcome to use any suggestions from the list above. They all focus on different problems and are interesting for you to disclose and for your audience to read. You can also generate similar topics by using this list.

What Makes a Good Topic?

If you want to be able to generate your own topic ideas, you need to understand the essence of this process. There are certain features and qualities of relevant topics. Make allowances for the next essentials:

• Research the currently interesting issues in the industry you write about;
• Select the issue that does not have a clear solution for now;
• Make your title catchy for readers;
• Show that you intend to disclose an essential problem;
• Make the title informative.

While you research the field, you may have various ideas. Not all of them are easy to disclose. The main reason for that is the lack of evidence. Before you decide what topic to cover, be sure you can gather enough facts to disclose it clearly.

At times, your title must be changed after you complete an essay. Perhaps the outcomes of your research will guide you in a different way. The initial assumption may differ and so you will have to reshape the title. Be aware of this possibility, even though it’s not hard and long to change it.

What Comes Next?

After you select the topic, you need to start writing. Create a good plan that outlines the main stages, deadlines, tools, and instructions for your paper. Once it’s done, write the first draft. It may be quite messy. Its main purpose is to pour down all the ideas and concepts you have. The second draft is supposed to organize them into a logical and consistent story.

Let’s check what should be done in every writing stage:

• Introduction . Provide general facts and implement a hook. End the entry section with a strong thesis statement. 
• Main body . Further on, develop the main argument of your argumentative essay on Star Wars. Use clear and convincing examples.
• Conclusion . Restate the thesis statement and outline the main outcomes of your paper. Be sure to explain the outcomes to your readers.

The last thing you should do is reread your paper. Do it at least twice and apply various revision methods. They increase your chances to detect all kinds of mistakes. The best methods are as follows:

• Reading in the head and aloud;
• Reading from the last line to the first line;
• Asking somebody to revise your paper;
• Using grammar checkers and editors.

Use Pro Assistance

Some students cannot generate relevant topic ideas even when they see good examples. The best solution to their pains is to collaborate with a reliable essay writing service. It definitely has a lot of competent experts who specialize in all academic fields:

• Literature;
• Theater and films;
• Computer science;
• Math, and so on.

Qualified writers develop all kinds of academic skills, including the generation of topics. Specify the direction and ask for help. They will quickly generate the best topic ideas for your case. You are free to request other skills:

• Writing and rewriting;
• Editing and proofreading;
• Outlining and researching;
• Citing and referencing.

A reliable writing services company treats every client with due respect and takes into account the slightest demands. If they are manageable, your helper will complete them exactly as you want.

If you are puzzled with choosing the relevant topics about this amazing Saga, use our topic list, as well as tips on generating them. Thus, you will be provided with the right information. 

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Watch Jedi battle hand-to-hand in new clip for Disney+'s 'The Acolyte' (video)

Here's a sneak peek at the martial arts fight choreography featured in this upcoming 'Star Wars' miniseries.

Zooming towards its official June 4 release date, Disney+'s newest "Star Wars" live-action series "The Acolyte" will be a true test for the 47-year-old franchise during a temporary lull in big screen space opera action from that galaxy far, far away.

" The Acolyte " and its 8-episode first season will roll out as a product of The High Republic era in the " Star Wars " timeline, a period of growing unrest when the fabled  Jedi Knights reigned supreme some 100 years prior to the events of " Star Wars: The Phantom Menace " and the entire Skywalker Saga.

A new official clip has just surfaced from Disney+ showcasing the series' "The Matrix"-like martial arts fight choreography in an intense physical sequence between a mysterious trainee named Mae (Amandla Stenberg) and Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) that's conspicuously lacking the use of crackling lightsabers.

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"In 'The Acolyte,' an investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past. As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems…."

Truth be told, this new look at "The Acolyte's" acrobatic hand-to-hand combat style is semi-refreshing for the "Star Wars" realm, but it's certainly been seen before in a multitude of martial arts movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or the "Ip Man" films and doesn't exactly set the universe on fire. 

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It does benefit from its veteran action coordinator, Chris Clark Cowan, whose dynamic work has been seen in "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" and "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." 

Besides Stenberg and Jung-jae, "The Acolyte" co-stars Manny Jacinto (Qimir), Carrie-Anne Moss (Master Indara), Dean-Charles Chapman (Master Torbin), Joonas Suotamo (Jedi Master Kelnacca), Jodie Turner-Smith (Mother Aniseya), Charlie Barnett (Yord Fandar), Dafne Keen (Jedi Padawan Jecki Lon), and Rebecca Henderson (Vernestra Rwoh). 

Series creator and showrunner Leslye Headland directed the pilot episode and also executive produces in collaboration with Kathleen Kennedy, Simon Emanuel, Jeff F. King, and Jason Micallef.

The first two episodes of "The Acolyte" will release exclusively on Disney+ starting June 4, 2024 with additional installments arriving weekly.

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Who has time to watch a 4-hour YouTube video? Millions of us, it turns out

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This week, as YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s review/eulogy for the shuttered Disney Star Wars hotel started making the rounds, I was curious. I’d of course heard about the “immersive experience” officially called Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser , and here was someone who’d actually experienced the, um, experience. But then I saw the video’s running time – four hours and five minutes! – and I closed the tab faster than I do whenever the algorithm wants to show me some dumbass trying to pick up a cobra.

Who has the kind of time, I wondered, to sit around and watch YouTube for half the damn workday? In this, the era of TikTok? And Reels? And in what is, we have all been repeatedly assured, a time of shrinking attention spans?

In the case of Nicholson’s Starcruiser video, millions and millions of people have the time, it turns out. And she’s not alone: Over the past few years, you may have noticed YouTube suggesting videos to you so long they make Lawrence of Arabia seem downright punchy.

In my feed, most of these take the form of disquietingly deep – and often critical – dives into various aspects of nerdy pop culture. “That internet D&D show we all used to love sucks now, and here’s three hours worth of proof!” “That new movie that everyone loves sucks, and here’s 63 reasons why!” “Here’s a recap of that series no one but you and me is watching, and the 43 glaring errors in continuity it overlooked!”

It’s not hard to understand why this is happening. Nerds gonna nerd, after all. We love what we love, and we’re prepared to corner you at a party, maybe over by the onion dip, and talk to you (OK: at you) about our every concern with it. At considerable length. (Why, yes, we do notice you gazing imploringly over our shoulders for someone, anyone, to rescue you; we just don’t care, because the really interesting thing about Buffy Season 4 that most people overlook is …..) And of course the YouTube monetization model prizes every precious minute it gets to spend with those delicious eyeballs of yours. Passion + Profit-Seeking is a powerful motivator; these videos will keep coming.

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Or, if you truly believe in the marketplace of ideas, maybe they won’t. After all, most of these long-haul grievance videos aren’t worth anywhere near the time commitment they demand, and spending so many hours watching such sustained negativity leaves you feeling coated in a kind of psychic grime, a residue of greasy cynicism. I should note that Nicholson’s Starcruiser video is a glaring exception – she’s passionate, yes, but admirably clear-eyed about that passion. She makes her points (her many, many, many points) with equanimity and humor, and she’s got the literal receipts. She’s also quick to praise those aspects of the experience worth praising, and smartly drills down on the question of value-for-money.

But there’s no denying that a shift is happening. TikTok itself – that online smithy wherein memes get forged and hammered – is launching longer videos , and Mr. Beast, arguably the quintessential YouTuber, recently started pumping out longer videos based, he says, on viewer demand.

Now, me? I’m so old I remember thinking a 13-minute music video was downright audacious. And I’ll admit, I didn’t actually watch the Starcruiser video, I listened to it while driving to and from the city for a movie screening. But I do watch several actual-play D&D YouTube shows, which sometimes stretch past the four-hour mark. And back in the early aughts I’d happily sink endless hours into reading smart, well-written TV recaps that might as well have been novellas. Is there any substantive difference?

But I choose to be heartened by the rise of long-form video. Or more specifically: By the willingness of people to watch a single video for hours on end. It suggests that quality of work continues to matter – you do, after all, still have to earn all those extra minutes of our attention. And in a culture so quick to blame a raft of societal ills on shrinking attention spans, it offers a surprising and intriguing counter-narrative to the experts who cite audience data to dictate precisely how long a YouTube video, or a web article, or a podcast episode “should” be.

Turns out the answer isn’t quantitative, but qualitative – not precise length, but personal value.

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Isolated and Defiant, Israel Vows to ‘Stand Alone’ in War on Hamas

As the death toll in Gaza has risen, countries have turned their backs on Israel. The consequences of those desertions, from security to economics, risk turning Israel into a pariah.

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Reporting from Tel Aviv and Safed, Israel

Turkey has suspended trade with Israel. The world’s top court is considering whether Israeli leaders have committed genocide. Protests have overtaken cities and campuses worldwide. Ireland and Spain say they will recognize Palestine as a state by the end of the month.

Even the United States — long Israel’s closest ally and benefactor — is threatening for the first time since the war began to withhold certain arms shipments.

Seven months after much of the world pledged its support to Israel following a Hamas-led terrorist attack, the country finds itself increasingly isolated. With a war that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians and left Gaza on the verge of famine, any international good will that Israel amassed on Oct. 7 has been all but lost.

Of greatest concern to Israel: splintering relations with the United States. President Biden, once quiet about his expectations that Israel limit civilian deaths and increase access to humanitarian aid, has become more vocal amid partisan political pressure in an election year. This week, Mr. Biden said the United States was withholding delivery of 3,500 high-payload bombs.

His warning on Wednesday that the pause could extend to more weapons was his greatest break yet with Israel’s government. It suggested that the outrage coursing through capitals and campuses would continue to spread, and it has. On Friday, in a largely symbolic gesture, the United Nations General Assembly backed Palestine’s bid for U.N. membership, and thousands of demonstrators in Sweden protested against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday.

“If we need to stand alone,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Thursday, both acknowledging and seeking to defy his country’s growing isolation, “we will stand alone.”

The backlash, which also extends to Israeli athletes and academics facing boycotts and protests, has stunned and confused Israelis, who are still reeling from Hamas’s October attacks and mostly see the war as justified. Many blame unchecked antisemitism and American party politics for Israel’s isolation. Others struggle to parse reasonable critique from selective virtue signaling.

They ask why more attention is not paid to Israeli victims, and why there are no protests against China’s persecution of Uyghurs or Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

“Most Israelis, and this includes the leadership, are perplexed about the attitude of the world,” said Eytan Gilboa, a communications professor at Bar-Ilan University.

He argued that Israelis have a hard time understanding why some people at the protests on American campuses combine support for a Palestinian state with what he described as “calls for the elimination of Israel.”

“It’s the slow-motion formation of a pariah state,” said Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat.

But the complex, layered reproof from around the world cannot be ignored as just the whims of anti-Israel activists. Israel is facing real consequences, from security to economics.

And while the isolation is partly a byproduct of how Israel has prosecuted the war, analysts and former officials say it also reflects international frustration with the government’s restrictions on food aid, a shift in global politics that has pushed Israel down the priority list and the Israeli public’s narrow focus on its own pain.

Israel has endured the world’s glare before, shrugging off frequent criticism at the U.N. and an Arab boycott that lasted decades. Though Israel governs a spit of land no bigger than Maryland, it has always had a centripetal pull, placing its wars at the emotional center of global politics. But this is not 1948, 1967, 1973, 1982, 2006 or 2014 — years with previous conflicts.

Before Oct. 7, most of Israel’s allies in the West were focused on Ukraine’s fight with Russia and the challenge of a more assertive China. The Middle East had largely fallen off the radar. Climate change was driving a retreat from oil. Israel and Saudi Arabia were openly discussing normalized relations even as Israel’s democracy had become more polarized and parochial.

At exactly that moment, Hamas struck and Israel retaliated.

Mr. Biden’s first response was complete solidarity: “My administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering,” he said on the day of the attacks. Other world leaders followed suit. The Israeli flag and its colors were projected on the Brandenburg Gate, 10 Downing Street and the Sydney Opera House.

Yet even as horrific details of Hamas’s murders and mutilation sowed nightmares, there were signs of concern about the government of Mr. Netanyahu and its absolutist approach.

Mr. Netanyahu’s promise to “demolish Hamas” struck many military strategists as too broad to be effective. And when Israeli forces began to pummel Gaza’s crowded cities with huge bombs, toppling buildings on families along with militants, support for Israel weakened.

Washington had been warning Israel to better protect civilians. Israel continued bombing. The United States and other countries pushed Israel to create corridors for aid. They demanded a plan for governing Gaza after the fighting. Israel intensified its assault on a territory roughly the size of Philadelphia, densely packed with two million people, many of them children, while keeping out most independent journalists, leaving image sharing to those under attack.

The results were dire: By late November, people were being killed in Gaza more quickly, according to experts , than in even the deadliest moments of the American-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were widely criticized by human rights groups.

Less than two months in, Israel was losing support in Europe and the United States — before student protests escalated into clashes with the police, before calls for divestment, before polling showed the war’s unpopularity affecting Mr. Biden’s chances for re-election.

After seven aid workers, many of them foreigners, from the World Central Kitchen were killed on April 1 and with children in Gaza dying of starvation , words like “genocide” and “evil” became more commonly applied to the campaign that Israel insisted was simply self-defense.

“The poor and impoverished people of Palestine were sentenced to death by Israel’s bombs,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said on Thursday, when he announced that his country, once Israel’s closest Muslim partner, would suspend trade.

Nimrod Novik, a former senior Israeli official and an analyst at the Israel Policy Forum, said there was no denying the government ignored both a moral and political imperative by pursuing a “stingy approach” to aid and a war plan with no vision for peace.

“Our government policy failed to live up to its claim that our war is with Hamas, not the Palestinian people,” Mr. Novik said.

The military says aid is slowed by security measures intended to restrict weapons smuggling. On Sunday, Hamas attacked one of the few border crossings from which aid is permitted to enter, killing four Israeli soldiers.

For many, it was a reminder that the context of Israeli life is still colored by the country’s own suffering. What Israelis discuss at dinner are friends called up to fight. What they see are cities and towns covered with the portraits of hostages unreturned, apps sending alerts for regular rocket attacks from Hezbollah along the northern border, and graffiti in Tel Aviv that reads, “Hamas = ISIS.”

“There is a total disconnect between how Israelis view the situation and how the world does,” Mr. Novik said. “Mentally, we are not in the seventh month since Oct. 7. Mentally, we are in Oct. 8.”

Many Israelis believe the international community is willfully ignoring their plight, with soldiers dying and groups widely viewed as terrorists firing on the country. In northern Israel, more than 100,000 people have been displaced from their homes by regular rocket fire. Children are not in school. Deep inside Israel’s borders, air-raid sirens pierce daily routines.

Genine Barel, a New Yorker who moved to Israel in the ’90s and now lives in Safed, the home of Kabbalah, or mystical Judaism, said it hurts to lose international sympathy.

“It would be bad enough if we were just going through this war, and the losses and the heartbreak,” she said, sitting in the empty restaurant of the hotel she owns with her husband where business has completely dried up. “But we are being vilified at the same time.”

“It’s as if you’re being picked on,” she added, “and accused of being a bully at the same time.”

Nathalie Rozens, 37, an actor and writer who grew up in Europe, said the discussion within Israel about the war had evolved to include more criticism. (A poll published Friday showed declining trust in Israel’s military leadership since March.) But outside the country, she said, Israelis are flattened into caricatures.

In her view, Israel’s critics fail to understand its nuances, that this is a place where many people loathe Mr. Netanyahu and lament the killing of innocents in Gaza, but have a sibling fighting there and are just two generations from the Holocaust’s attempted destruction of global Jewry.

Banning Israeli artists from festivals, protesting singers at Eurovision, refusing to fund Israeli films — “the pressure, in a way, hits the wrong people,” she said.

“I don’t feel aligned with this government and I’m Israeli,” she said. “There is no space for my voice inside the country and also not abroad.”

However dangerous Hamas or Hezbollah might be, many believe dwindling U.S. support for Israel would be far more catastrophic for the country. Israel needs America as a patron, and this government has “no patience, no consideration, no understanding of Israel’s status in the world,” said Nahum Barnea, a veteran columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli daily newspaper. “So they choose to ignore it.”

Total isolation still seems a long way off. Israel is not North Korea. Mr. Biden has said he would keep Israel supplied with defensive weapons, and Republicans have sided even more strongly with Israel. However, according to many international analysts, what Israelis want to see as a tremor may become a fault line as agitation with Israel continues to build.

“They’ve lost the young people,” said Ian Bremmer, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia and the president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. “They weren’t around and don’t know the Holocaust. What they see is an incredibly powerful Israel that is engaging in a war for seven months and is indifferent to the suffering of the Palestinians.”

Johnatan Reiss contributed reporting.

Damien Cave is an international correspondent for The Times, covering the Indo-Pacific region. He is based in Sydney, Australia.  More about Damien Cave