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Author: Glenn Kenny

Genre: Popular Culture
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780749006600
Pages: 256
Rights: UK & Comm excl Canada
Pub. Date: 1st April 2003

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Price: £9.99

Format: Trade Paperback

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In 1977, Star Wars burst onto our screens and quickly became the cultural phenomenon for an entire generation. Today, as audiences tremble in anticipation for each new episode in the saga, Star Wars is still a major cinematic event. The children who watched in 1977 have today grown up to become writers, film-makers and journalists and in this dazzling collection of original essays they explore the massive impact that George Lucas`s cinematic space opera has had on the world.

Edited by Glenn Kenny, a senior editor and critic at Premiere magazine, this is the first collection of essays of its kind on the Star Wars films. Jonathan Lethem writes of the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times as his mother lay dying of cancer. New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell meditates upon the mysterious figure Lando Calrissian and Todd Hanson, head writer of The Onion, parades his homemade Jedi costume and struggles to come to terms with Jar Jar Binks. The likes of director Kevin Smith and critic Joe Queenan offer their unique, personal experience and affinity with Star Wars; a chance to anatomise, criticise, celebrate, and sometimes simply riff on the prismatic after-effects of an unparalleled international phenomenon.

A classic assemblage of pop writing at its best on a classic series of popular movies at their very best, A Galaxy Not So Far Away is a book for everyone who loves the Star Wars films and seeks to understand just what it is about these films that has so entranced generations of filmgoers.

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