Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise

Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise

by Miles Booy
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise

Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise

by Miles Booy

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Overview

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified nothing. Four decades later, the significations are multiple as interpretations of the film's strange imagery and metaphoric potential continue to pile up.

Interpreting Star Wars analyses and contextualises the dominant trends in Star Wars interpretation from the earliest reviews, through Lucasfilm's attempts to use its position as copyright holder to promote a single meaning, to the 21st century where the internet has rendered such authorial control impossible and new entries to the canon present new twists on old hopes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501364747
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/28/2021
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.13(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Miles Booy is an independent scholar, having lectured at the University of East Anglia, UK, and Stafford College, UK. He is the author of Marvel's Mutants: The X-Men Comics of Chris Claremont (2018) and Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present (2012).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Housekeeping vi

Introduction: Possibilities of interpretation 1

1 Star Wars versus secularity 13

2 Star Wars and the Reagan revolution 35

3 The first interpreters 55

4 The trilogy and the myth reading 81

5 The progressives strike back: Star Wars as liberal text 101

6 New twists on old hopes: Prequels and sequels 125

Conclusion: The many lives of George Lucas 155

Notes 165

Bibliography 183

Index 189

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