Star Wars

Fan phenomena

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Edited by Mika Elovaara

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Star Wars

Keywords

George Lucas, Star Wars, sociology

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Intellect Books

Collection

Fan Phenomena

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 132 pages
6 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches (17 x 24.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78320-022-1

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Book Presentation:
In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success with duck characters, wasn’t after Howard; in buying Lucasfilms, it also bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise. Soon after the purchase, Disney announced a new Star Wars film was in the works and would be released in 2015, nearly four decades after the first movie hit big screens around the world and changed popular culture forever.
The continued relevance of Star Wars owes much to the passion of its fans. For millions of people around the world, the films are more than diversions—they are a way of life. Through costumed role-playing, incessant quoting, Yoda-like grammatical inversions, and scholarly debates about the Force, fans keep the films alive in a variety of ways, and in so doing, add to the saga’s cultural relevance. The first book to address the films holistically and from a variety of cultural perspectives, Fan Phenomena: Star Wars explores numerous aspects of Star Wars fandom, from its characters to its philosophy. As one contributor notes, “the saga that George Lucas created affects our lives almost daily, whether we ourselves are fans of the saga or not.” Anyone who is struggling to forget Jar Jar Binks can certainly agree to that.
Academically informed but written for a general audience, this book will appeal to every fan and critic of the films. That is, all of us.

Press Reviews:
“It certainly piqued my interest in new areas and raised my awareness of subjects I hadn’t considered or knew nothing about.”
Stephen Howard | Roqoo Depot

“While we are all busy being Star Wars fans there’s something very enticing in reading about how the fandom works, and that’s what this book brings. . . . Definitely worth the time for any fan of fandom or Star Wars to read.”
Mark Newbold | Jedi News

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