Star Wars Multiverse

Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, television, children’s books, and fan films, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home on such topics as authoritarianism, colonialism, xenophobia, sexuality, and gender norms.

List of contents

Preface: Seriously, Star Wars

1 Navigating a Multiverse: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars

2 Humans and Creatures + Droids: Hierarchies of Life

3 Imperial Desires: War, Order, Colonialism

4 Beyond Princesses and Flyboys: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars

Conclusion: Star Wars, Seriously

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Works Cited

Filmography

Index                                 

About the author

CARMELO ESTERRICH is an associate professor of humanities at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies, from Gilgamesh to Bjork. His scholarship has focused on the artistic production of twentieth-century Latin America, specifically film, literature, the visual arts, and popular music.

Product details

• Authors: Carmelo Esterrich
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781978815261
• ISBN: 978-1-978815-26-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popula; Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture; Quick Takes: Movies & Popular Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet