Interpreting Star Wars
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- ISBN 9781501364747
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 148 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 11 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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).
