Lucas
eBook - ePub

Lucas

His Hollywood Legacy

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lucas

His Hollywood Legacy

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Reflections on George Lucas and Modesto
  7. 2. Marcia Lucas: Her Life and Hollywood Legacy
  8. 3. “Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been?”: The Alienation of the Administered Society, Running to Freedom, and the Dystopianism of George Lucas’s THX 1138
  9. 4. American Graffiti and More: The Scholarly and Aesthetic Legacies of an Inaugural Nostalgia Film
  10. 5. A New Hope: From American Graffiti to Star Wars
  11. 6. Writing about Star Wars: A Historiography of the Original Trilogy
  12. 7. “Archaeology Is the Search for Fact . . . Not Truth”: How George Lucas and Indiana Jones Redefined Our Relationship with the Past
  13. 8. From Sass to Seduction: The Ambiguously Tough Ladies of Star Wars and Indiana Jones
  14. 9. Researching the Lucasfilm Yearbooks: “FAMILY—ONE WIFE, ONE DISCO-BOOGIE BABY, AND 425 FOSTER KIDS”
  15. 10. Notes on the Lucas-Spielberg Syndrome
  16. 11. The Dislocations of Skywalker Ranch
  17. 12. Lucas Meets Luxo: Lucasfilm’s Computer Graphics Lab (CGL) and the Development of Pixar Animation Studios
  18. 13. The Audience Is Listening: The Film Sound Legacy of George Lucas
  19. 14. LucasArts and the Hollywoodization of Video Games
  20. 15. Franchise and Edutainment in the History of Lucasfilm Television
  21. 16. George and the Dinosaurs: George Lucas’s Contributions to The Land Before Time and Jurassic Park
  22. 17. Star Wars: Special Editions: Film Ownership and Cultural Implications
  23. 18. Changing Critical and Popular Responses to the Star Wars Prequels
  24. 19. From Rebels to Emperors to Jedi Spirits: Walt Disney, George Lucas, and Their Fans
  25. 20. George Lucas in Museums
  26. Postscript
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. List of Contributors
  29. Index