Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: Book Author: Taylor, Chris, 1973- author. Title: How Star Wars conquered the universe : the past, present, and future of a multibillion dollar franchise / Chris Taylor. Publisher, Date: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014] ©2014 Description: xx, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm Summary: Traces the history of the film series from the difficult creation of the original film to the preparations for a new trilogy, providing portraits of the people who labored behind the scenes to turn George Lucas' idea into a legend. Subjects: Star Wars films. Genre: Science fiction films. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-437) and index. Contents: A Navajo hope -- Mars wars -- The land of zoom -- Plastic spacemen -- Hyperspace drive -- How to be a Jedi -- Buck Rogers in the twentieth century -- Home free -- My little space thing -- Spoof wars -- Star Wars has a posse -- The first reel -- Release -- The accidental empire -- Here come the clones! -- How to exceed in sequels -- Being Boba -- End of the Jedi? -- Between the wars -- The universe expands -- Return of the writer -- Special addition -- The line -- The prequels conquer Star Wars -- Building character -- How I stopped worrying and learned to love the prequels -- Using the universe -- Hello Disney -- Across the universe. LCCN: 2014023580 ISBN: 9780465089987 0465089984 Other Number: 869266739 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 720555 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 791.4375 Star War Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
