How Star Wars conquered the universe : the past, present, and future of a multibillion dollar franchise / Chris Taylor.
Title:
How Star Wars conquered the universe : the past, present, and future of a multibillion dollar franchise / Chris Taylor.
ISBN:
9780465049899
9780465089987
Personal Author:
Edition:
Revised and expanded.
Publication Information:
New York, N. Y. : Basic Books, 2015.
©2014
Physical Description:
xi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cm
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:
Traces the history of the film series from the difficult creation of the original film to the preparations for a new trilogy, providing portraits of the people who labored behind the scenes to turn George Lucas' idea into a legend.
OCLC Number:
ocn900624131
Availability:
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