ISBN |
9781784970598 (paperback) |
9781784970451 (hardback) |
Name |
Taylor, Chris, 1973- author. |
Title |
How Star Wars conquered the universe : the past, present, and future of a multibillion dollar franchise / Chris Taylor. |
Published |
London : Head of Zeus, 2014. |
©2014 |
Description |
xx, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-437) and index. |
Contents |
A Navajo hope -- Mars wars -- The land of zoom -- Plastic spacemen -- Hyperspace drive -- How to be a Jedi -- Buck Rogers in the twentieth century -- Home free -- My little space thing -- Spoof wars -- Star Wars has a posse -- the first reel -- Release -- The accidental empire -- Here come the clones! -- How to exceed in sequels -- Being Boba -- End of the Jedi? -- Between the wars -- The universe expands -- Return of the writer -- Special addition -- The line -- The prequels conquer Star Wars -- Building character -- How I stopped worrying and learned to love the prequels -- Using the universe -- Hello Disney -- Across the universe. |
Summary |
Why do most people know what an Ewok is, even if they haven't seen Return of the Jedi? How have Star Wars action figures come to outnumber human beings? How did 'Jedi' become an officially recognised religion? When did the films' merchandising revenue manage to rival the GDP of a small country? Tracing the birth, death and rebirth of the epic universe built by George Lucas and hundreds of writers, artists, producers, and marketers, Chris Taylor jousts with modern-day Jedi, tinkers with droid builders, and gets inside Boba Fett's helmet, all to find out how STAR WARS has attracted and inspired so many fans for so long. |
Subjects |
Star Wars films |
Science fiction films -- History and criticism |
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