スターウォーズのアイデンティティ・ポリティクス Identity Politics in George Lucas' Star Wars

McDowell, John C.

McFarland & Co Inc（2016/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476662862
• DDC分類 791.4372

Full Description

George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through the "moral megaphone" of the film industry. A considerable body of scholarship on the six-part Star Wars series argues (unconvincingly) that the franchise promoted neo-conservatism in American culture from the late 1970s onward. But there is much in Lucas' grand space opera to suggest something more ideologically complex is going on. This book challenges the view of the saga as an unambiguously violent text exemplifying reactionary politics, and discusses the films' identity politics with regard to race and gender.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Abbreviations

1. "Man your ships, and may the Force be with you": Star Wars and Mythically Sanitized Violence

2. "Wars not make one great": Redeeming the Star Wars Mythos from the Myth of Redemptive Violence

3. "There'll be no escape for the Princess this time": Re-Gendering the Patriarchal Star Wars Texts

4. "We don't serve their kind here!" Star Wars and the Politics of Difference

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index