Ebook: Identity Politics in George Lucas' Star Wars

"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"--;"Man your ships, and may the force be with you": Star wars and mythically sanitized violence -- "Wars not make one great": redeeming the Star wars -- Mythos from the myth of redemptive violence -- "There'll be no escape for the princess this time": re-gendering the patriarchal Sstar wars texts -- "We don't serve their kind here!" Star wars and the politics of difference.