Lucas
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Lucas

His Hollywood Legacy

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Lucas

His Hollywood Legacy

About this book

George Lucas is an innovative and talented director, producer, and screenwriter whose prolific career spans decades. While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise, Lucas first gained renown with his 1973 film American Graffiti, which received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture.
When Star Wars (1977) was released, the groundbreaking motion picture won six Academy Awards, became the highest grossing film at the time, and started a cultural revolution that continues to inspire generations of fans. Three decades and countless successes later, Lucas announced semiretirement in 2012 and sold his highly successful production company, Lucasfilm, to Disney. His achievements have earned him the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, induction into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and the California Hall of Fame, and a National Medal of Arts presented by President Barack Obama.
Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy is the first collection to bring a sustained scholarly perspective to the iconic filmmaker and his legacy beyond the Star Wars films. Edited by Richard Ravalli, this volume analyzes Lucas's overall contribution and importance to the film industry, diving deep into his use and development of modern special effects technologies, the history of his Skywalker Ranch production facilities, and more. With clearly written and enlightening critiques by experts consulting rare collections and archival materials, this book is an original and robust project that sets the standard for historical and cultural studies of Lucas.

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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