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Star Wars

Name: Star Wars
Author: Will Brooker

Auteur: Will Brooker

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Will Brooker

Engels
Paperback
9781839021633
29 oktober 2020
100 pagina's

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The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's six-part narrative has grown into something more: a culture that goes far beyond the films themselves, with tie-in toys, novels, comics, games and DVDs as well as an enthusiastic fan community which creates its own Star Wars fictions. Critical studies of Star Wars have treated it as a cultural phenomenon, or in terms of its special effects, fans and merchandising, or as a film that marked the end of New Hollywood's innovation and the birth of the blockbuster. Will Brooker's illuminating study of the film takes issue with many of these commonly-held ideas about Star Wars. He provides a close analysis of Star Wars as a film, carefully examining its shots, editing, sound design, cinematography and performances. Placing the film in the context of George Lucas's previous work, from his student shorts to his 1970s features, and the diverse influences that shaped his approach, from John Ford to Jean-Luc Godard, Brooker argues that Star Wars is not, as Lucas himself has claimed, a departure from his earlier cinema, but a continuation of his experiments with sound and image. He reveals Lucas's contradictory desires for total order and control, embodied by the Empire, and for the raw energy and creative improvisation of the Rebels. What seemed a simple fairy-tale becomes far more complex when we realise that the director is rooting for both sides; and this tension unsettles the saga as a whole, blurring the boundaries between Empire and Republic, dark side and light side, father and son. In his foreword to this new edition, Will Brooker discusses is how subsequent films in the series, specifically Rogue One (2016) and The Last Jedi (2017), foregrounded and developed the themes of opposition that are at the heart of Star Wars. He shows how Derridean theories of opposites which become undermined and subverted, and which change places are made more clear with hindsight and provide us with a useful lens for looking back at the 1977 Star Wars.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 oktober 2020
Aantal pagina's: 100
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Will Brooker
Hoofdredacteur: Will Brooker
Hoofduitgeverij: Bfi Publishing

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Editie: 2
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 135 mm
Product lengte: 190 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 135 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 190 mm
Verpakking lengte: 190 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 164 g

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EAN: 9781839021633

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Fantasy & Sciencefiction

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