Miles Booy

Interpreting Star Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Reading a Modern Film Franchise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501364730
• Artikelnr.: 60774256

Autorenporträt

Miles Booy studied film, television and literature at the College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, before doing post-graduate work in cinema at the University of East Anglia. He lives in Stafford with his wife and son. He is an expert on Marvel Comics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Star Wars vs. Secularity
2. Leftist Political Critique
3. Late Seventies Promotion and Spin-off Materials
4. Myth Criticism
5. The Liberation Reading
6. Prequels and Sequels
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index