Myth, media, and culture in Star wars
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Douglas Brode, Leah Deyneka
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780810885127; 9780810885134
Subjects: Culture in motion pictures; Star wars films; History and criticism; Myth in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Douglas Brode; title: "Cowboys in Space": Star Wars and the Western Film / Douglas Brode; title: Is Star Wars a Modernized Fairy Tale? / Arthur Berger; title: From Disneyland to Modesto: George Lucas and Walt Disney / Craig Svonkin; title: 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; title: Not so long ago, not so far away: New Variations on Old Themes: Questioning Star Wars' Revival of Heroic Archetypes / Dan Rubey; title: From Sky-Walking to Dark Knight of the Soul: George Lucas' Star Wars Turns to Tragic Drama / John C. McDowell; title: Under the Influence of Akira Kurosawa: The Visual Style of George Lucas / Michael Kaminski; title: Balancing the Force: How Media Created by Star Wars Now Defines the Franchise / Crystal Renee White; title: "A Long Time Ago on a Newsstand Far, Far Away": The Mythic Comic Book Hero in Marvel Comics' Star Wars / Jon Hogan; title: The Jedi Network: Star Wars' Portrayal and Inspirations on the Small Screen / Eric Charles; title: Gaming in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Expanded Worlds, Canon Conflicts, and Simplified Morality of Star Wars Video Games / Seth Sommerfeld; title: Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars": Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture / Henry Jenkins; title: Star Wars and the Technophobic Imagination / Cyrus R. K. Patell.