Star Wars Multiverse by Esterrich, Carmelo;

Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture;

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Product details:

Publisher Rutgers University Press
Date of Publication 13 August 2021
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9781978815261
Binding Hardback
No. of pages176 pages
Size 178x114x15 mm
Weight 2 g
Language English

Long description:

Star Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse.

Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children's books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.

Preface: Seriously, Star Wars
1 Navigating a Multiverse: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars
2 Humans and Creatures + Droids: Hierarchies of Life
3 Imperial Desires: War, Order, Colonialism
4 Beyond Princesses and Flyboys: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars
Conclusion: Star Wars, Seriously
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Works Cited
Filmography
Index

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