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Scarecrow Press
Language
English
Pages
192

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2012, Scarecrow Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Douglas Brode
"Cowboys in Space": Star Wars and the Western Film / Douglas Brode
Is Star Wars a Modernized Fairy Tale? / Arthur Berger
From Disneyland to Modesto: George Lucas and Walt Disney / Craig Svonkin
May the Myth Be with You, Always: Archetypes, Mythic Elements and Aspects of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Monomyth in the Original Star Wars Trilogy / Leah Deyneka
Not so long ago, not so far away: New Variations on Old Themes: Questioning Star Wars' Revival of Heroic Archetypes / Dan Rubey
From Sky-Walking to Dark Knight of the Soul: George Lucas' Star Wars Turns to Tragic Drama / John C. McDowell
Under the Influence of Akira Kurosawa: The Visual Style of George Lucas / Michael Kaminski
Balancing the Force: How Media Created by Star Wars Now Defines the Franchise / Crystal Renee White
"A Long Time Ago on a Newsstand Far, Far Away": The Mythic Comic Book Hero in Marvel Comics' Star Wars / Jon Hogan
The Jedi Network: Star Wars' Portrayal and Inspirations on the Small Screen / Eric Charles
Gaming in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Expanded Worlds, Canon Conflicts, and Simplified Morality of Star Wars Video Games / Seth Sommerfeld
Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars": Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture / Henry Jenkins
Star Wars and the Technophobic Imagination / Cyrus R. K. Patell.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Lanham, Md

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/75
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.S695 M97 2012, PN1995.9.S695M97

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25198187M
Internet Archive
mythmediaculture0000unse
ISBN 13
9780810885127, 9780810885134
LCCN
2012003282
OCLC/WorldCat
774867731

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