Interpreting Star Wars : Reading a Modern Film Franchise

Booy, Miles

Bloomsbury Academic USA（2021/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781501364747
• DDC分類 791.4375

Full Description

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.

Contents

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