Identity Politics in George Lucas' Star Wars
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781476662862
Subjects: Motion pictures, political aspects; Star wars films
Description: "George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through the "moral megaphone" of the film industry. A considerable body of scholarship on the six-part Star Wars series argues (unconvincingly) that the franchise promoted neo-conservatism in American culture from the late 1970s onward"--