Cyrus R. K. Patell, "Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Film Making and the Ding, Ding and Ding Series
i wanted to push back against the kind of auterist idea behind the series, like that this was going to be about directors who had an artistic vision and exerted almost total control over their productions. And i thought film making is really actually, in the event, a much more collaborative enterprise than any aterist account can really a capture. But as i came to work on this material, i realized that i was less interested in what lucas might have been said to have absorbed from sources like joseph campbell and other things that hehad been reading and then stuck into his starworth films. The films themselves enabled viewer s to think of ideas that we would call philosophical, and
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