A Galaxy Here and Now

2016 An Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: Star Wars, Public Radio, and Middlebrow Cold War CultureCommentary (Essay) 2016 Deconstructing the Desert: The Bedouin Ideal and the True Children of TatooineCommentary (Essay) 2016 Feminist Icons Wanted; Damsels in Distress Need Not ApplyCommentary (Essay) 2016 Hearing the Force: Manifestations and Transformations of Music from Far, Far AwayCommentary (Essay) 2016 Jedi Knights and Epic Performance: Is the Force a Form of Western-African Epic MimicryCommentary (Essay) 2016 Jedi Knights, Dark Lords, and Space Cowboys: George Lucas's Re-Imagined and Redefined Masculine IdentitiesCommentary (Essay) 2016 Part of Our Cultural History: Fan-Creator Relationships, Restoration, and AppropriationCommentary (Essay) 2016 Periodizing a Civil War: Reaffirming an American Empire of DreamsCommentary (Essay) 2016 The Space Community and the Princess: Reworking the American Space Program's Public Image from "Miss Nasa" to Princess LeiaCommentary (Essay)