Star Wars / / Will Brooker

• Autore: Brooker Will <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; ; New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (97 pages) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.4372
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96).
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword to the 2020 edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Before Star Wars -- 2. Dirt -- 3. Order -- 4. Border Crossing -- Notes -- Credits -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--Bloomsbury publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Star Wars
• ISBN: 1-83871-330-1; 1-84457-554-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910467898703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: BFI film classics.