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An Auteur Is Born Spielberg "escalated the perception of the film director as auteur, as the 'author' of his movie and the primary reason for its success, rather than the traditional view that a movie made it big because of its stars," claims Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University and president of the Popular Culture Association.

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After Pearl Harbor, everyone rushed to their local military recruitment office to go enlist and fight in the war," says Robert Thompson, former president of the Popular Culture Association.

is still a way to defy the trends that are established in society," says Thompson, president of the International Popular Culture Association in Syracuse, N.

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There were two places in public where you could go and take a deep breath - one of those was a phone booth," says Robert Thompson, president of the Popular Culture Association and a professor at Syracuse University.

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Here, for four days last month, 1,500 members of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association presented papers on such topics as "Godlike Knowledge and Human Understanding in "Paradise Lost' and "Star Trek' " and " `Chasing Amy': Heterosexism and the Continuum of Gender Relations" - and they were taken seriously.