LEADER 03485nam 22005293 450 001 9910794655903321 005 20231110214341.0 010 $a1-9788-1529-8 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978815292 035 $a(CKB)4100000011946472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6630692 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6630692 035 $a(OCoLC)1253290644 035 $a(DE-B1597)590619 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978815292 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011946472 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStar Wars multiverse /$fCarmelo Esterrich 210 1$aNew Brunswick :$cRutgers University Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (177 pages) 225 1 $aQuick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture 311 1 $a1-9788-1526-3 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE: Seriously, Star Wars --$t1 NAVIGATING A MULTIVERSE: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars --$t2 HUMANS AND CREATURES + DROIDS: Hierarchies of Life --$t3 IMPERIAL DESIRES: War, Order, Colonialism --$t4 BEYOND PRINCESSES AND FLYBOYS: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars --$tCONCLUSION: Star Wars, Seriously --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tFURTHER READING --$tWORKS CITED --$tFILMOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aStar Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children?s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery. 410 0$aQuick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture 606 $aStar Wars fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aStar Wars films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / General$2bisacsh 610 $aStar Wars, Star Wars Multiverse, multiverse, George Lucas, Lucasfilm, The Mandalorian, Clone Wars, political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, war, gender, sexuality, human, droids, Star Wars fandom, diversity, popular culture, movie, television, film. 615 0$aStar Wars fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aStar Wars films$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / General. 676 $a791.4375 700 $aEsterrich$b Carmelo$01571300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794655903321 996 $aStar Wars multiverse$93845644 997 $aUNINA