num_pages: 96
description: Will Brooker's illuminating study takes issue with many commonly held ideas about Star Wars. He provides a close cinematic analysis carefully examining its shots its editing its sound design cinematography and performances. Brooker argues that Star Wars is not as Lucas himself has claimed a departure from his previous work but a continuation of his experiments with sound and image. He reveals Lucas contradictory desires for the total order and control of the Empire and on the other hand for the raw energy and creative improvisation of the Rebels. Though at first Star Wars seems a simple fairy-tale it becomes far more complex when we realize that the director is rooting for both sides creating a tension unsettles the saga as a whole and illuminates new sides of Lucas' masterpiece.
language: English
title: Star Wars
publisher: British Film Institute