Is it any wonder that a long time ago, in the summer of 1980, an innocent family outing to see The Empire Strikes Back changed the course of Lancashire's academic life. This can't be true, she thought, emerging from the small movie theatre in Charlottetown, where she, her husband and their two children were vacationing. In our pervasive culture, movies are like books were years ago, and the theatre in Shakespeare's day. By deconstructing the George Lucas canon and the works of other popular filmmakers, Lancashire can decode the great dramatic themes of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Star Wars movies are modern fairy tales, our mythology.
Every good writer seduces people.
Star Wars Canada's Top Movies 1. Pearl Harbor 2. The Mummy Returns 4. A Knight's Tale 5.