Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Douglas Brode
Chapter 1: A Rocky Road to Star Wars: The Early Life and Career of
George Lucas
Douglas Brode
Chapter 2: Star Wars in Black & White: Race and Racism in a Galaxy
Not So Far Away
Andrew Howe
Chapter 3: Beyond Judeo-Christianity: Star Wars and the Great
Eastern Religions
Julien Fielding
Chapter 4: May the Force Be with JEW: The Jedi-Hebraic
Connection
Andrew Bank
Chapter 5: Star Wars: An Exhibition in Cold War Politics
Nick Desloge
Chapter 6: Fighting the Evil Empire: Star Wars, the Strategic
Defense Initiative and the Politics of Science-Fiction
Peter Krämer
Chapter 7: Light Sabers, Political Arenas, and Marriages for
Princess Leia and Queen Amidala
Ray Merlock and Kathy Merlock Jackson
Chapter 8: “The Over-Soul of the Force: Emersonian
Transcendentalism in the Star Wars Saga”
Anne M. Boyd
Chapter 9: George Lucas and Freud’s Anal Stage Manifestations of
Excretory and Vaginal Fear in THX 1138 and Star Wars
Lucy Place
Chapter 10: Homosexual Romance & Self-Realization in Star Wars
Roger Kaufman
Chapter 11: The War for Star Wars
Matt Singer
Chapter 12: Defining the Jedi Order: Star Wars’ Narrative and the
Real World
Nick Jamilla
Chapter 13: The Empire Strikes Back: Deeper and Darker
Andrew Gordon
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editors
Douglas Brode teaches popular culture at Syracuse University’s
Newhouse School of Public Communications, the University of Texas
at San Antonio, and Our Lady of the Lake University (also in San
Antonio). He has published more than 35 books, including Rod
Sterling and The Twilight Zone (2009).
Leah Deyneka holds a master’s degree in 19th-century literature
from King’s College, London, and has written extensively on
literature, film, media, and popular culture.
These titles will be of interest to Star Wars fans and popular
culture scholars alike. They provide and interesting and scholarly
view of the series and insight into our culture's feelings on
politics, religion, media, and gender issues.
*American Reference Books Annual*
[T]his volume with 13 essays offers fresh and mostly entertaining
content. . . [The] text on the strong rootedness of Jedi wisdom in
eastern religions [was enjoyable]. . . Furthermore, the essay on
transcendentalism and The Force is very enlightening, too.
*Popcultureshelf.com*
[T]his is a very entertaining study of the films.
*Filmwerk*
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