List of Images Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Filmmaking and Philosophizing 2. From Lucas to Lucasfilm 3. Reversal and Recognition, Exile and Return 4. Melodrama 5. Individualism 6. Technophobia 7. Cosmopolitanism 8. Fallibilism 9. Moral Compass Notes Bibliography Index
A lively and up-to-date exploration of the Star Wars universe and the Lucasfilm world examining their philosophical underpinning.
Cyrus R. K. Patell is Global Network Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi and Professor of English at NYU in New York, USA. He is author of Emergent U.S. Literatures (2014) and Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination (2015) and co-editor (with Deborah Lindsay Williams) of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940.
Offers an informative overview on Star Wars, focusing on the
importance of storytelling combined with filmmaking and its
overarching connection to philosophy.
*AMERICANA - E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary*
Cyrus Patell's immensely engaging volume dismantles the
long-assumed tension between film as industrial production and film
as an art form capable of philosophical reflection when controlled
by an auteur. In considering Lucasfilm and the Star Wars universe
as evidence for the existence of a corporate cogito, Patell argues
for the films' cosmopolitanism, working with their viewers to build
a model of the world and contemplate how best to live in it.
*Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor
of English, Michigan State University, USA*
In Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe,
Cyrus R. K. Patell takes cultural criticism to a new level,
advancing a cosmopolitan reading practice that grounds the concerns
of contemporary critical theory in the discursive realities of
media production and media reception. From the Modesto-born Journal
of the Whills to the StageCraft-enabled filming facilities of The
Mandalorian, Patell clearly and humanely charts an emergent
mythology of the postmodern age.
*Marc Dolan, Professor of English, Film Studies, and American
Studies, The City University of New York, USA*
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