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A Galaxy Not So Far Away
18 stories · 2003
13, 1977, 21
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Lethem
2003
A Big Dumb Movie About Space Wizards: Struggling to Cope With The Phantom Menace
Commentary (Essay) · Todd Hanson
2003
A Night Out at the Memeplex
Commentary (Essay) · Arion Berger
2003
A Star Wars Miscellany: Extracts Culled from Various Media
Commentary (Essay) · Aimee Agresti
2003
Anakin, Get Your Gun
Commentary (Essay) · Joe Queenan
2003
Becoming Darth Vader
Commentary (Essay) · Lydia Millet
2003
Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Catcher in the Red-Eye: Episode IV, A New Goddamn Hope
Commentary (Essay) · Neal Pollack
2003
Dagobah, Nebraska
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Barden
2003
Introduction: Jedi Mind Tricks
Commentary (Essay) · Glenn Kenny
2003
It's a Wonderful Life, or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Star Wars Holiday Special
Commentary (Essay) · Webster Younce
2003
Jedi Uber Alles
Commentary (Essay) · Tom Carson
2003
Married to the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin Smith
2003
Pale Starship, Pale Rider: The Ambiguous Appeal of Boba Fett
Commentary (Essay) · Tom Bissel
2003
Planet Rock: Star Wars and Hip-Hop
Commentary (Essay) · Harry Allen
2003
Star Wars Tale
Commentary (Essay) · Kate Bernheimer
2003
The Chrysanthemum and the Lightsaber
Commentary (Essay) · Erika Krouse
2003
The Force Visits Willoughby, Ohio
Commentary (Essay) · Elwood Reid
2003
Works Every Time
Commentary (Essay) · Elvis Mitchell
2003
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Star Wars and Philosophy
18 stories · 2005
"A Certain Point of View": Lying Jedi, Honest Sith, and the Viewers Who Love Them
Commentary (Essay) · Shanti Fader
2005
"A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy": Star Wars and the Problem of Evil
Commentary (Essay) · Christopher M. Brown
2005
"Be Mindful of the Living Force": Environmental Ethics in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Elizabeth Cooke
2005
"If Droids Could Think": Droids as Slaves
Commentary (Essay) · Robert Arp
2005
"Size Matters Not": The Force as the Causal Power of the Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Jan-Erik Jones
2005
"What is Thy Bidding, My Master?": Star Wars and the Hegelian Struggle for Recognition
Commentary (Essay) · Brian K. Cameron
2005
"You Cannot Escape Your Destiny" (Or Can You): Freedom and Predestination in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jason T. Eberl
2005
A Technological Galaxy: Heidegger and the Philosopher of Technology in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jerold J. Abrams
2005
By Any Means Necessary: Tyranny, Democracy, Republic, and Empire
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin S. Decker
2005
Humanizing Technology: Flesh and Machine in Aristotle and the Empire Strikes Back
Commentary (Essay) · Jerome Donnelly
2005
Introduction: The Force is With Youbut You're not a Jedi Yet
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin S. Decker
2005
Moral Ambiguity in a Black-and-White Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Richard H. Dees
2005
Religious Pragmatism through the Eyes of Luke Skywalker
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph W. Long
2005
Send in the Clones: The Ethics of Future Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Richard Hanley
2005
Stoicism in the Stars: Yoda, the Emperor, and the Force
Commentary (Essay) · William O. Stephens
2005
The Aspiring Jedi's Handbook of Virtue
Commentary (Essay) · Judith Barad
2005
The Far East of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Walter Robinson
2005
The Force is With Us: Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit Strikes Back at the Empire
Commentary (Essay) · James Lawler
2005
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Star Wars on Trial
26 stories · 2006
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Charge #1: The Politics of Star Wars are Anti-Democratinc and Elitist, For the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Keith R. A. DeCandido
2006
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Charge #2: While Claiming Mythic Significance, Star Wars Portrays No Admirable Religious or Ethical Beliefs, For the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Scott Lynch
2006
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Charge #2: While Claiming Mythic Significance, Star Wars Portrays No Admirable Religious or Ethical Beliefs, For the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · John C. Wright
2006
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Charge #3: Star Wars Novels are Poor Substitutes for Real Science Fiction, For the Defense (Resnick)
Commentary (Essay) · Laura Resnick
2006
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Charge #3: Star Wars Novels are Poor Substitutes for Real Science Fiction, For the Defense (Rusch)
Commentary (Essay) · Kristine Katherine Rusch
2006
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Charge #3: Star Wars Novels are Poor Substitutes for Real Science Fiction, For the Defense (Traviss)
Commentary (Essay) · Karen Traviss
2006
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Charge #3: Star Wars Novels are Poor Substitutes for Real Science Fiction, For the Proscution
Commentary (Essay) · Lou Anders
2006
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Charge #4: Science Fiction Filmaking has been Reduced by Star Wars to Poorly Written Special Effects Extravanganzas, For the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Bruce Bethke
2006
1 re-release
Charge #4: Science Fiction Filmaking has been Reduced by Star Wars to Poorly Written Special Effects Extravanganzas, For the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · John G. Henry
2006
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Charge #5: Star Wars has Dumbed Down the Perception of Science Fiction in the Popular Imagination, For the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Richard Garfinkle
2006
1 re-release
Charge #5: Star Wars has Dumbed Down the Perception of Science Fiction in the Popular Imagination, For the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · Tanya Huff
2006
1 re-release
Charge #6: Star Wars Pretends to be Science Fiction but is Really Fantasy, For the Defense (Metzger)
Commentary (Essay) · Robert A. Metzger
2006
1 re-release
Charge #6: Star Wars Pretends to be Science Fiction but is Really Fantasy, For the Defense (Roberts)
Commentary (Essay) · Adam Roberts
2006
1 re-release
Charge #6: Star Wars Pretends to be Science Fiction but is Really Fantasy, For the Prosecution (Bethke)
Commentary (Essay) · Bruce Bethke
2006
1 re-release
Charge #6: Star Wars Pretends to be Science Fiction but is Really Fantasy, For the Prosecution (Wharton)
Commentary (Essay) · Ken Wharton
2006
1 re-release
Charge #7: Women in Star Wars are Portrayed as Fundamentally Weak, For the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Bill Spangler
2006
1 re-release
Charge #7: Women in Star Wars are Portrayed as Fundamentally Weak, For the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · Jeanne Cavelos
2006
1 re-release
Charge #8: The Plot Holes and Logical Gaps in Star Wars Make it Ill-suited for an Intelligent Viewer, For the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Don DeBrandt
2006
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Charge #8: The Plot Holes and Logical Gaps in Star Wars Make it Ill-suited for an Intelligent Viewer, For the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · Nick Mamatas
2006
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Closing Statement for the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Stover
2006
1 re-release
Closing Statement for the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · David Brin
2006
1 re-release
Introduction By David Brin
Commentary (Essay) · David Brin
2006
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Introduction By Matthew Woodring Stover
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Stover
2006
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Opening Statement for the Defense
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Stover
2006
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Opening Statement for the Prosecution
Commentary (Essay) · David Brin
2006
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The Verdict
Commentary (Essay)
2006
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Culture, Identities, and Technology
10 stories · 2007
"Your Father's Lightsaber": The Fetishization of Objects Between the Trilogies
Commentary (Essay) · Dan North
2007
Apocalyptic Determinism in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · John Lyden
2007
Feminism and the Force: Empowerment and Disillusionment in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Graham Lyons, Janice Morris
2007
Kill Binks: Why the World Hated its First Digital Actor
Commentary (Essay) · Veronica A. Wilson
2007
May the Force (Not) Be With You: "Race Critical" Readings and the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Christopher Deis
2007
Moving Away from Myth: Star Wars as Cultural Analysis
Commentary (Essay) · Carl Silvio, Tony M. Vinci
2007
Seduced by the Dark Side of the Force: Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Agency in George Lucas's Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Diana Dominguez
2007
The Emperor's New Clones: or, Digitization and Walter Benjamin in the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
2007
The Fall of the Rebellion: or, Defiant and Obedient Heroes in a Galaxy Far, Far Away - Individualism and Intertextuality in the Star Wars Trilogies
Commentary (Essay) · Tony M. Vinci
2007
The Star Wars Trilogies and Global Capitalism
Commentary (Essay) · Carl Silvio
2007
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Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars
14 stories · 2012
"Cowboys in Space": Star Wars and the Western Film
Commentary (Essay) · Cyrus R. K. Patell
2012
A Long Time Ago on a Newsstand Far, Far Away: The Mythic Comic Book Hero in Marvel Comics' Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Crystal Renee White
2012
Balancing the Force: How Media Created by Star Wars Now Defines the Franchise
Commentary (Essay) · Michael Kaminsky
2012
From Disneyland to Modesto: George Lucas and Walt Disney
Commentary (Essay) · Arthur Berger
2012
From Sky Walking to Dark Knight of the Soul: George Lucas's Star Wars Turns to Tragic Drama
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Rubey
2012
Gaming in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The History of the Expanded Worlds, Canon Conflicts, and Simplified Morality of Star Wars Video Games
Commentary (Essay) · Eric Charles
2012
Introduction: "Of That Time, of That Place
Commentary (Essay) · Douglas Brode
2012
Is Star Wars a Modernized Fairy Tale?
Commentary (Essay) · Douglas Brode
2012
May the Myth Be With You, Always: Archetypes, Mythic Elements, and Aspects of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Monomyth in the Original Star Wars Trilogy
Commentary (Essay) · Craig Svonkin
2012
Not So Long Ago not Far Away: New Variations on Old Themes and Questioning Star Wars' Revival of Heroic Archetypes
Commentary (Essay) · Leah Deyneka
2012
Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture
Commentary (Essay) · Seth Sommerfield
2012
Star Wars and the Technophobic Imagination
Commentary (Essay) · Henry Jenkins
2012
The Jedi Network: Star Wars' Portrayal and Inspirations on the Small Screen
Commentary (Essay) · Jon Hogan
2012
Under the Infulence of Akira Kurosawa: The Visual Style of George Lucas
Commentary (Essay) · John C. McDowell
2012
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Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars
14 stories · 2012
A Rocky Road to Star Wars: The Early Life and Career of George Lucas
Commentary (Essay) · Douglas Brode
2012
Beyond Judeo-Christianity: Star Wars and the Great Eastern Religions
Commentary (Essay) · Julien Fielding
2012
Defining the Jedi Order: Star Wars' Narrative and the Real World
Commentary (Essay) · Nick Jamilla
2012
Fighting the Evil Empire: Star Wars, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Politics of Science Fiction
Commentary (Essay) · Peter Kramer
2012
George Lucas and Freud's Anal Stage Manifetations of Excretory and Vaginal Fear in THX 1138 and Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Lucy Place
2012
Homosexual Romance and Self-Realization in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Roger Kaufman
2012
Introduction (Sex, Religion, and Politics)
Commentary (Essay) · Douglas Brode
2012
Lightsabers, Political Arenas, and Marriages for Princess Leia and Queen Amidala
Commentary (Essay) · Kathy Merlock Jackson, Ray Merlock
2012
May the Force Be with Jew: The Jedi-Hebraic Connection
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Bank
2012
Star Wars in Black and White: Race and Racism in a Galaxy Not So Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Howe
2012
Star Wars: An Exhibition in Cold War Politics
Commentary (Essay) · Nick Desloge
2012
The Empire Strikes Back: Deeper and Deeper
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Gordon
2012
The Over-Soul of the Force: Emersonian Transcendentalism in the Star Wars Saga
Commentary (Essay) · Anne M. Boyd
2012
The War for Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Matt Singer
2012
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Star Wars and History
12 stories · 2012
"A House Divided": The Causes and Costs of Civil War
Commentary (Essay) · Mark Higbee, Paul Horvath
2012
"Fear is the Path to the Dark Side": Nuclear Weapons and the Death Star
Commentary (Essay) · Lori Maguire
2012
"Greed Can Be a Powerful Ally": The Trade Federation, the East India Company, and Chaotic Worlds of Trade
Commentary (Essay) · Michael Laver
2012
"Part of the Rebel Alliance and a Traitor": Women in War and Resistance
Commentary (Essay) · Janice Liedl, Nancy R. Reagin
2012
"There's Always a Bigger Fish": Power, Politics, and the Rule of Rebellion
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin S. Decker
2012
Coruscant, the Great Cities of Earth, and Beyond
Commentary (Essay) · Katrina Gulliver
2012
Elegant Weapons for Civilized Ages: The Jedi and Warrior Monks Throughout History
Commentary (Essay) · Terrance MacMullan
2012
From Slavery to Freedom in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Paul Finkelman
2012
I, Sideous: Historical Dictators and Senator Palpatine's Rise to Power
Commentary (Essay) · Tony Keen
2012
Introduction: The Forces of History and the History of the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Janice Liedl
2012
Teen Queen: Padme Amidala and the Power of Royal Women
Commentary (Essay) · Janice Liedl
2012
Why Rebels Triumph: How "Insignificant" Rebellions Can Change History
Commentary (Essay) · William J. Astore
2012
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Fan Phenomena
10 stories · 2014
Fan Phenomena Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Mike Elovaara
2014
Fans, Fics, & Films"Thank the Maker(s)!"
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Derosa
2014
From Bikinis to Blasters: The Role of Gender in the Star Wars Community
Commentary (Essay) · Erika Travis
2014
Greater than the Sum of its Parts: The Singular Emergent Language of the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Kris Jacobs
2014
Immersive and Interactive Adaptoins and Extensions of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jason Scott
2014
Jediism as Religion? The Force as Old/New Religious Philosophy
Commentary (Essay) · Zachary Ingle
2014
Star Wars as a Character-Oriented Franchise
Commentary (Essay) · Jason Scott
2014
Star Wars Generations: A Saga for the Ages, for All Ages
Commentary (Essay) · Brendan Cook
2014
The Influence of the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Jason Davis, Larry Pakowski
2014
The Marketing of the Force: Fans, Media, and the Economics of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Neil Matthiessen
2014
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The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy
27 stories · 2015
"In That Time" in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Epic Myth-Understandings and Myth-Appropriation in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · John Thompson
2015
"Know the Dark Side": A Theodicy of the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Jason T. Eberl
2015
"Like My Father before Me: " Loss and Redemption of Fatherhood in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Annika Beck, Charles Taliaferro
2015
"Never Tell Me the Odds": An Inquiry Concerning Jedi Understanding
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Zimmerman Jones
2015
"You Are Asking Me to Be Rational": Stoic Philosophy and the Jedi Order
Commentary (Essay) · Matt Hummel
2015
Anakin and Achilles: Scars of Nihilism
Commentary (Essay) · Don Adams
2015
Can Chewie Speak? Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language
Commentary (Essay) · Myfanwy Reynolds, Rhiannon Grant
2015
Can the Zillo Beast Strike Back? Cloning, De-Extinction, and the Species Problem
Commentary (Essay) · Leonard Finkleman
2015
Chasing Kevin Smith: Was it Immoral for the Rebel Alliance to Destroy Death Star II?
Commentary (Essay) · Charles C. Camosy
2015
Dark Times: The End of the Republic and the Beginning of Chinese Philosophy
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin S. Decker
2015
Docile Bodies and a Viscous Force: Fear of the Flesh in Return of the Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Jennifer L. McMahon
2015
Gospel, Gossip, and Ghent: How Should We Understand the New Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Nathan Kellen, Roy T. Cook
2015
Guardians and Tyrants in the Republics of Star Wars and Plato
Commentary (Essay) · Adam Barkman, Kyle Alkema
2015
How Guilty is Jar Jar Binks
Commentary (Essay) · Nicolas Michaud
2015
Introduction: "The Circle Is Now Complete"
Commentary (Essay) · Jason T. Eberl
2015
Light Side, Dark Side, and Switching Sides: Loyalty and Betrayal in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Daniel Malloy
2015
Mindless Philosophers and Overweight Globs of Grease: Are Droids Capable of Thought?
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Burkett
2015
Of Battle Droids and Zillo Beasts: Moral Status in the Star Wars Galaxy
Commentary (Essay) · James M. Okapal
2015
Pregnant Padme and Slave Leia: Star Wars' Female Role Models
Commentary (Essay) · Cole Bowman
2015
Star Wars Emotions, and the Paradox of Fiction
Commentary (Essay) · Lance Bellumomini
2015
The Ballad of Boba Fett: Mercenary Agency and Amoralism in War
Commentary (Essay) · David LaRocca
2015
The Friends of a Jedi: Friendship, Family, and Civic Duty in a Galaxy at War
Commentary (Essay) · Greg Littman
2015
The Jedi Knights of Faith: Anakin, Luke, and Soren (Kierkegaard)
Commentary (Essay) · William A. Lindenmuth
2015
The Mind of Blue Snaggletooth: The Intentional Stance, Vintage Star Wars Action Figures, and the Origins of Religion
Commentary (Essay) · Dennis Knepp
2015
The Platonic Paradox of Darth Plagueis: How Could a Sith Lord Be Wise?
Commentary (Essay) · Terrance MacMullan
2015
What Is It Like to Be a Jedi? A Life in the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Marek McGann
2015
Why the Force Must Have a Dark Side
Commentary (Essay) · George A. Dunn
2015
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Star Wars Psychology
31 stories · 2015–2026
1 re-release
A Discussion with Darth Maul: Sam Witwer Interview on the Antithesis of Self-Actualization
Commentary (Essay) · Jenna Busch, Travis Langley
2015
1 re-release
A Distressing Damsel: Leia's Heroic Journey
Commentary (Essay) · Mara Wood
2015
1 re-release
A Symphony of Psychology: The Music of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jim Davies, Joe Kraemer
2015
1 re-release
Agreeableness versus Disagreeableness
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
1 re-release
Anxiety Disorder's Need for Imperial Control: Was Darth Vader Evil or Scared?
Commentary (Essay) · Frank Gaskill
2015
1 re-release
Conscientiousness versus Recklessness
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
1 re-release
Droids, Minds, and Why We Care
Commentary (Essay) · Jim Davies
2015
1 re-release
Explaining the Empire: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Commentary (Essay) · Cory J. Blunt
2015
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Extraversion versus Introversion
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
1 re-release
Faith and the Force: Star Wars and the Psychology of Religion
Commentary (Essay) · Clay Routledge
2015
1 re-release
Feel the Force: Jung's Theory of Individuation and the Jedi Path
Commentary (Essay) · Laura Vecchiolla
2015
1 re-release
Final Word: Our Last Hope
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
From Phantom Menace to Phantom Limbs: Amputation, Neuroprosthetics, and Darth Vader's Brian
Commentary (Essay) · E. Paul Zerh
2015
1 re-release
Grief and Masculinity: Anakin the Man
Commentary (Essay) · Billy San Juan
2015
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Introduction: Lights in the Dark Side
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
Lando's Choice: Anatomy of a Moral Decision
Commentary (Essay) · Jay Scarlet
2015
1 re-release
Neuroticism versus Emotional Stability
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
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Openness versus Closedness
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
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Samurai, Star Wars, and Underdogs
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Hetterley
2015
1 re-release
Shooting, Striking, Returning: Returning the Universes in Our Heads
Commentary (Essay) · Donald F. Glut, Travis Langley
2015
1 re-release
So You Want to Be a Jedi? Learning the Ways of the Force Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Commentary (Essay) · Janina Scarlet, Jenna Busch
2015
1 re-release
The Force of Relationships: Tie Strength in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jennifer Golbeck
2015
1 re-release
The Good, the Bad, and the Scruffy: Can We Define Good and Evil?
Commentary (Essay) · Travis Langley
2015
1 re-release
The Intergalactic Guide to Girls and Gender Psychology
Commentary (Essay) · Elizabeth A. Kus, Janina Scarlet
2015
The Skywalker Way: Values in the Light and Dark
Commentary (Essay) · Janina Scarlet
2015
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These Archetypes You're Looking For
Commentary (Essay) · Alex Langley
2015
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Yoda: Little Big Mentor
Commentary (Essay) · Craig Pohlman
2015
Andor and the Path to Fight Fascist Imperialism
Commentary (Essay) · Kaela Joseph
2026
Coming of Age in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Adolescent Development in the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Jill Swirsky
2026
Let the Wookiee Win: The Psychology of Game Play in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Commentary (Essay) · Jill Swirsky
2026
Star Wars in Evolutionary Perspective: Darwin, Droids, and the Dark Side
Commentary (Essay) · Glenn Geher
2026
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A Long Time Ago: Exploring the Star Wars Cinematic Universe
20 stories · 2015
A Certain Point of View, Revisited: The Phantom Menace, 16 Years Later
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph F. Berenato
2015
Changes, Choices, and Compromise: Revisiting Return of the Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Joe Bongiorno
2015
Chewie, We're Home: A Foreword
Commentary (Essay) · Scott Chernoff
2015
Deconstrucing the Star Wars Holiday Special
Commentary (Essay) · Steven H. Wilson
2015
Ee Chee Wa Maa! Lucas's Littlest Heroes Win Young Hearts and Minds on the Smallest of Screens
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin Dilmore
2015
From THX to Star Wars: Rethinking George Lucas's Place in American Science-Fiction Cinema
Commentary (Essay) · Ian Dawe
2015
How Star Wars Broke Cinema
Commentary (Essay) · Julian Darius
2015
I Have a Good Feeling About This: An Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Rich Handley
2015
In Trouble Again: The Joys and Woes of Ewoks and Droids
Commentary (Essay) · Jean-Francois Boivin
2015
Luke, Dorothy, and the Hero's Journey: We're Not on Tatooine Anymore, (Ar)To-(Dee)To
Commentary (Essay) · Rich Handley
2015
Our Actions Define Our Legacy: A Look at the Clone Wars
Commentary (Essay) · David Pipgras
2015
Power, Politics, and the Prequels
Commentary (Essay) · Zaki Hasan
2015
Star Tours, or: How to Make a Theme Park Attraction from Existing Resources
Commentary (Essay) · Alex Newborn
2015
Surrounding Us and Binding Us Together: Star Wars Across the Generations
Commentary (Essay) · Dayton Ward
2015
The Ecology of Tatooine as the Epicenter of the Star Wars Films
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Sunrich
2015
The Empire Strikes Gold: Why Episode V is the Best Star Wars Film, and Other Musings
Commentary (Essay) · Lou Tambone
2015
The Power Showed Us the Light: An Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph F. Berenato
2015
Top Ten Positive Aspects of the Prequel Trilogy
Commentary (Essay) · Keith R. A. DeCandido
2015
Vanguard of a New Continuity: Season One of Rebels
Commentary (Essay) · Nathan P. Butler
2015
What's So Dark About the Dark Side? Good, Evil, and the Spectrum of Compassion in the Star Wars Saga
Commentary (Essay) · Rocko Jerome
2015
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A Galaxy Here and Now
9 stories · 2016
An Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: Star Wars, Public Radio, and Middlebrow Cold War Culture
Commentary (Essay) · Jessica K. Brandt
2016
Deconstructing the Desert: The Bedouin Ideal and the True Children of Tatooine
Commentary (Essay) · Paul Charbel
2016
Feminist Icons Wanted; Damsels in Distress Need Not Apply
Commentary (Essay) · Mara Wood
2016
Hearing the Force: Manifestations and Transformations of Music from Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Tom Zlabinger
2016
Jedi Knights and Epic Performance: Is the Force a Form of Western-African Epic Mimicry
Commentary (Essay) · Gregory E. Rutledge
2016
Jedi Knights, Dark Lords, and Space Cowboys: George Lucas's Re-Imagined and Redefined Masculine Identities
Commentary (Essay) · Erin C. Callahan
2016
Part of Our Cultural History: Fan-Creator Relationships, Restoration, and Appropriation
Commentary (Essay) · Michael Fuchs, Michael Phillips
2016
Periodizing a Civil War: Reaffirming an American Empire of Dreams
Commentary (Essay) · Peter W. Lee
2016
The Space Community and the Princess: Reworking the American Space Program's Public Image from "Miss Nasa" to Princess Leia
Commentary (Essay) · Karin Hilck
2016
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The Fandom Universe
19 stories · 2016
A Long Time Ago, On a Couch on a Sidewalk
Commentary (Essay) · Christina Gleeson
2016
Craftus Interruptus: or Hot Glue is Not the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Kate Ressman
2016
Darth Solo
Commentary (Essay) · Jason Gaff
2016
I Never Wanted to Be Leia: What Han Solo Taught Two Women About Gender and Sexuality
Commentary (Essay) · A.J. O'Connell, Tamela Ritter
2016
If My Mother Had Lived: A Poem by Luke Skywalker
Commentary (Essay) · Melissa Crawford-O'Brien
2016
In Defence of Jar Jar Binks
Commentary (Essay) · Callie M. Ashton
2016
Kate and Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Tom Boone
2016
Kinda Sorta in the Fandom
Commentary (Essay) · Nicole Slazinski
2016
Mind on the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Chris Saldana
2016
My Love for Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Melissa Crawford-O'Brien
2016
On Science Fiction
Commentary (Essay) · Julie Campbell Stoddard
2016
Opening Night
Commentary (Essay) · Jeffery Cook
2016
Reading Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jessica Engel
2016
Rebel Scum
Commentary (Essay) · Brian Vons
2016
Star Wars Memories
Commentary (Essay) · Craig Miller, L. Anne Wooley
2016
Star Wars Mom
Commentary (Essay) · Amanda M. Greene
2016
The Mark Hamill Award
Commentary (Essay) · Jaimie Vowels
2016
There is Good In You
Commentary (Essay) · Kitty Boweman
2016
Tom's Collection of Awesome
Commentary (Essay) · Tom Boone
2016
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Exploring Star Wars Comics
18 stories · 2016
Adaptive Behavior: Turning Black-and-White Text into Four-Color Brilliance
Commentary (Essay) · Chris Cerasi
2016
Adventures Beyond the Greatest Space-Fantasy Film of All: An Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Rich Handley
2016
Celebrate the Love: An Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph F. Berenato
2016
Comic Bookends of the Expanded Universe: From Dawn of the Jedi to Legacy
Commentary (Essay) · Steven Greenwood
2016
Dark Empire: An Annotated History and Analysis of its Legacy
Commentary (Essay) · Mike Beidler
2016
Darklighter: How Biggs Showed Us the Galaxy
Commentary (Essay) · Ian Dawe
2016
Episode VI.V: A New Threat - The Marvel Comic Books After Return of the Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew J. Elliott
2016
Exploring the Side Streets: Marvel Goes Beyond the Empire Strikes Back
Commentary (Essay) · Glenn Greenberg
2016
First Steps and Missteps: The Pre-Empire Strikes Back Era of Marvel Comics
Commentary (Essay) · Nathan P. Butler
2016
How Marvel Brought Complex Literary Themes to the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Joe Bongiorno
2016
In the Shadow of Yavin: Analyzing Brian Wood's Star Wars and Marvel's Return to the Galaxy
Commentary (Essay) · Tom Speelman
2016
Mapping the British Invasion: Marvel UK's Star Wars Comics
Commentary (Essay) · Rich Handley
2016
Playing in Uncle George's Sandbox: A Foreword
Commentary (Essay) · John Ostrander
2016
Star Wars: Empire, a Missed Opportunitiy to Portray the Dark Side of the Galactic Civil War in a Different Light
Commentary (Essay) · Martin A. Perez
2016
Star Wars: The Early Media Tie-In Universe Chronology
Commentary (Essay) · Win Scott Eckert
2016
The Star Wars Newspaper Strip and its Position in the History of Comics
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Sunrich
2016
The Third Dimension of Star Wars Comics: Blackthorne's 3-D Series
Commentary (Essay) · Jean-Francois Boivin
2016
Traveling through Hyperspace: Charting the Star Wars Webcomics
Commentary (Essay) · Ed Erdelac, Greg Mitchell
2016
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Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
21 stories · 2017
"Thank the Maker" - George Lucas, Lucasfilm, and the Legends of Transtextual Authorship across the Star Wars Franchise
Commentary (Essay) · Tara Lomax
2017
Adapting the Death Star into Lego - The Case of Lego Set #10188
Commentary (Essay) · Mark J.P. Wolf
2017
Afterword: "You'll Find I'm Full of Surprises" - The Future of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Hassler-Forest, Will Brooker
2017
Another Canon, Another Time - The Novelizatoins of the Star Wars Films
Commentary (Essay) · Thomas Van Parys
2017
Chasing Wild Space - Narrative Outsides and World-Building Frontiers in Knights of the Old Republic and The Old Republic
Commentary (Essay) · Cody Mejeur
2017
Fandom Edits - Rogue One and the New Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Gerry Canavan
2017
Foreword: I Have a Bad Feeling About This
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Hassler-Forest
2017
Formatting Nostalgia - IMAX Expansions of the Star Wars Franchise
Commentary (Essay) · Allison Whitney
2017
Franchising Empire - Parker Brothers, Atari, and the Rise of Lucasarts
Commentary (Essay) · Stefan Hall
2017
From Sequel to Quasi-Novelization - Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the 1970s Culture of Transmedia Contingency
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Freeman
2017
From Transmedia Storytelling to Transmedia Experience - Star Wars Celebration as a Crossover/Hierarchical Space
Commentary (Essay) · Matt Hills
2017
How Star Wars Became Museological - Transmedia Storytelling in the Exhibition Space
Commentary (Essay) · Beatrix Bartolome Herrera, Phillip Domenik Keidl
2017
Invoking the Holy Trilogy - Star Wars in the Askewniverse
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew M. Butler
2017
Leia Shot First - Transmedia Storytelling and the National Public Radio Dramatization of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Jeremy W. Webster
2017
Publishing the New Jedi Order - Media Industries Collaboration and the Franchise Novel
Commentary (Essay) · Sean Guynes
2017
Some People Call Him a Space Cowboy - Kanan Jarrus, Outer Rim Justice, and the Legitimzation of the Obama Doctrine
Commentary (Essay) · Derek R. Sweet
2017
Space Bitches, Witches, and Kick-Ass Princesses - Star Wars and Popular Feminism
Commentary (Essay) · Megen de Bruin-Mole
2017
The Digitizing Force of Decipher's Star Wars Customizable Card Game
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Rey Lee
2017
The Kiss Goodnight from a Galaxy Far, Far Away - Experiencing Star Wars as a Fan-Scholar on Disney Property
Commentary (Essay) · Heather Urbanski
2017
Transmedia Character Building - Textual Crossovers in the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Lincoln Geraghty
2017
You Must Feel the Force Around You - Transmedia Play and the Death Star Trench Run in Star Wars Video Games
Commentary (Essay) · Drew Morton
2017
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A More Civilized Age
22 stories · 2017
A Harvest in Blue: Family Guy's Star Wars Parodies
Commentary (Essay) · Ian Dawe
2017
A History of Star Wars Action Figures
Commentary (Essay) · Ethan Wilson
2017
A Wild Ride of the Die: The Star Wars Roleplaying Game
Commentary (Essay) · Mario A. Escamilla
2017
Charting the Future's Past: L. Neil Smith's Lando Calrissian Adventures
Commentary (Essay) · Steven H. Wilson
2017
Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover: Revisting the Classic Fim Novelizations
Commentary (Essay) · David Pipgras
2017
Expanding on Legends: An Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Rich Handley
2017
Expanding the Universe: A Foreword
Commentary (Essay) · Timothy Zahn
2017
Finding Our Lack of Blind Faith Refreshing: Why the Love of the Saga Means Being Critical
Commentary (Essay) · Nathan P. Butler
2017
Flyboys and Scoundrels: A Look Back at 20 Years of X-Wing
Commentary (Essay) · Sabrina Fried
2017
Glory, We Found Glory: An Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph F. Berenato
2017
Living the Expanding Universe: The Worlds of Star Wars Galaxies
Commentary (Essay) · Drew Campbell
2017
Rogue One, the Expanded Universe, and Their Parallels to Nuclear Arms
Commentary (Essay) · Joe Bongiorno
2017
Shadows of the Empire: The Movie-without-the-Movie Extravaganza of 1996
Commentary (Essay) · Lou Tambone
2017
Smugglers, Bounty Hunters, and Radio Days: The Star Wars Works of Brian Daley
Commentary (Essay) · Alex Newborn
2017
The Canon Question: A Slight Return
Commentary (Essay) · Mike Beidler
2017
The Lean Years: When Star Wars Vanished
Commentary (Essay) · Rocko Jerome
2017
The Making of The Clone Wars: Secret Missions
Commentary (Essay) · Ryder Windham
2017
The New Jedi Order: Change Invades a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph Dilworth, Jr.
2017
The Will of the Force: by George, William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph F. Berenato
2017
To Be Continued: Crucible and the End of an Era
Commentary (Essay) · Matt Wilkins
2017
Universes Expanded: Guardians of the Galaxy Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Rich Handley
2017
War and Peace: Star Wars and the Myth of Redemptive Violence
Commentary (Essay) · Joe Bongiorno
2017
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Strategy Stikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
32 stories · 2018
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A Strategist, Yoda Was Not
Commentary (Essay) · M.L. Cavanaugh
2018
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Civil-Military Relationships in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Daniel D. Maurer
2018
1 re-release
Darth Vader and Mission Command
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Bratten
2018
1 re-release
Darth Vader's Failed Counterinsurgency Strategy
Commentary (Essay) · Liam Collins
2018
1 re-release
Dispatch from Hoth: When the Blood Runs Cold
Commentary (Essay) · August Cole
2018
1 re-release
Distant Warriors: Are Clones and Troops too Separate from the Societies They Serve?
Commentary (Essay) · Crispin J. Burke
2018
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Epilogue: The Lessons of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · M.L. Cavanaugh
2018
1 re-release
Foreword (Strategy Strikes Back)
Commentary (Essay) · Stanley McChrystal
2018
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From Princess to General: The On- and Offscreen Rise of the Woman Warrior
Commentary (Essay) · Erica Iverson
2018
1 re-release
Han, Greedo, and a Strategy of Prevention
Commentary (Essay) · Chuck Bies
2018
1 re-release
How General Grievous and Vulture Droids Foreshadow Conflict's Fast Future
Commentary (Essay) · Fran Wilde, Raq Winchester
2018
1 re-release
How Not to Build an Army: The Empire's Flawed Military Force
Commentary (Essay) · Mick Ryan
2018
1 re-release
Hybrid Star Wars: The Battle of Endor
Commentary (Essay) · Colin Steele, James Stavridis
2018
1 re-release
Introduction (Strategy Strikes Back)
Commentary (Essay) · Max Brooks
2018
1 re-release
Jedi Mind Tricks: From the Reel to the Real
Commentary (Essay) · Jean Marie Ward
2018
1 re-release
Lightsabers and Death Stars: Military Technology Lessons from Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Ward
2018
1 re-release
On Destroying Alderaan
Commentary (Essay) · Mick Cook
2018
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Preface (Strategy Strikes Back)
Commentary (Essay) · M.L. Cavanaugh
2018
1 re-release
Star Wars, Cyclical History, and Implications for Strategy
Commentary (Essay) · Kathleen J. McInnis
2018
1 re-release
Suffer, the Weak Must: A History of the Galactic Civil War
Commentary (Essay) · Craig Whiteside
2018
1 re-release
Tarkin Doctrine: The Empire's Theory of Victory
Commentary (Essay) · Kelsey D. Atherton
2018
1 re-release
The Battle of Hoth: A Critical Analysis
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Liptak
2018
1 re-release
The Case for Planet Building on Endor
Commentary (Essay) · Max Brooks
2018
1 re-release
The Jedi and the Profession of Arms
Commentary (Essay) · Steve Leonard
2018
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The Jedi and the Senate
Commentary (Essay) · Jim Golby
2018
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The Logic of Strategy in Space
Commentary (Essay) · Steve Metz
2018
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The Right Fleet: Starships for Strategic Purpose
Commentary (Essay) · BJ Armstrong
2018
1 re-release
Why Military Forces Adapt, Even in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Chuck Bies
2018
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Why the Empire Failed
Commentary (Essay) · Theresa Hitchens
2018
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Why the Galactic Republic Fell: An Imperial Network Perspective
Commentary (Essay) · Van Jackson
2018
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Why the Jedi Won Fights, Not Wars
Commentary (Essay) · John Spencer
2018
1 re-release
Why We Need Space Marines
Commentary (Essay) · B.A. Friedman
2018
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The Myth Awakens
10 stories · 2018
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Do or Do Not, There is No Try: Race, Rhetoric, and Diversity in the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Joshua Call
2018
1 re-release
I've Heard This Somewhere Before: The Myth-Making Implications of Han and Leia's Theme
Commentary (Essay) · Kutter Callaway
2018
1 re-release
Introduction: Being Sith Lord Sexypants
Commentary (Essay) · Ken Derry
2018
1 re-release
Leia "the hutt slayer" and Rey "the next generation badass boss bitch"
Commentary (Essay) · Chris Klassen
2018
1 re-release
Memory, History, and Forgetting in Star Wars Fandom
Commentary (Essay) · Syed Adnan Hussain
2018
1 re-release
Ritual, Repetition, and the Responsibility of Relaying the Myth
Commentary (Essay) · Justin Mullis
2018
1 re-release
The Brightest Shadow: From Fighting Darkness to Seekng It
Commentary (Essay) · Lindsey Macumber
2018
1 re-release
The Ion Canon Will Fire Several Shots to Make Sure Any Enemy Ships Will Be Out of Your Flight Path
Commentary (Essay) · Kenneth MacKendrick
2018
1 re-release
The More Things Change: Historical and Political Context and The Force Awakens
Commentary (Essay) · John Lyden
2018
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The Racism Awakens
Commentary (Essay) · Daniel White Hodge, Joseph Bolton
2018
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Post-Colonial Star Wars
21 stories · 2020
Acts of Rebellion: Justifiable Murder
Commentary (Essay) · Isabel Urbanski-Farrel
2020
An Object of Rebellion: Princess Leia's Sexualized Feminism
Commentary (Essay) · Carter Mucha
2020
Artificial Intelligence: A New Hope?
Commentary (Essay) · Robbie Perot
2020
Beyond Light and Darkness: A Generation Awakens
Commentary (Essay) · Cameron Culwell
2020
Clones and Hybridity
Commentary (Essay) · Declan Cassidy
2020
Exoticizing Otherness: The Latent Racism of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Rachel Blair
2020
Galactic Orientalism
Commentary (Essay) · Ali Sadek
2020
Gender, Social Norms, and Disney's Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Patrick Penso
2020
Gothic Rebellion
Commentary (Essay) · Eric Wnorowski
2020
How the Subaltern Interact
Commentary (Essay) · Mafaz Chaudry
2020
Introduction: A New Perpsective
Commentary (Essay) · Matthew Schultz
2020
It's Our Lot in Life: The Marginalization of Droids
Commentary (Essay) · Ty Rain Alpaugh
2020
Leia and Rey Through the Male Gaze
Commentary (Essay) · Adesina Brown
2020
Oppressive Languages: Galactic Basic and Global English
Commentary (Essay) · Max van Baaren
2020
Rebel Violence
Commentary (Essay) · Rachel Sipress
2020
Star Wars and Gothic Marxism
Commentary (Essay) · Emmett Cashman
2020
Star Wars and the Conditions of Ethnocentrism
Commentary (Essay) · Elliot Porcher
2020
The Dark Side of the Rebel Alliance
Commentary (Essay) · Tatianna Brown
2020
The Galaxy's Military-Industrial Complex
Commentary (Essay) · Aidan Bova
2020
The Strange Case of Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader
Commentary (Essay) · Mrin Somani
2020
There is Another: The Decline and Fall of Leia Organa
Commentary (Essay) · Schuyler Osgood
2020
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The Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV
11 stories · 2020
"The circle is now complete": Transmedia Storytelling and Nostalgia in Star Wars Television Adverts
Commentary (Essay) · Lincoln Geraghty
2020
Canonical Legends: How the Expanded Universe (Selectively) Lives On in TV
Commentary (Essay) · Dominic J. Nardi
2020
Foreword (Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV)
Commentary (Essay) · Amy Sturgis
2020
From Monk to Superhero: Genndy Tartakovsy's Clone Wars and the Transformation of the Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Tiffany Knoell
2020
Introduction (Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV)
Commentary (Essay) · Derek R. Sweet, Dominic J. Nardi
2020
Of War, Peace, and Art: Mandalorian Culture in Star Wars Television
Commentary (Essay) · Lena Richter
2020
Several Decades Ago in Your Living Room: Ewoks, Droids, and Star Wars Saturday Morning Cartoons
Commentary (Essay) · Joseph J. Darowski
2020
The Battle for Endor: Ewok Television Films as Transmedia Brand Extension
Commentary (Essay) · J. Richard Stevens
2020
The Enduring Force of Kenner Star Wars Toy Commercials
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Lundy
2020
The Holiday Special and the Hole in the Archive
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Ferguson
2020
The Princess Strikes Back: Forces of Destiny and the Capitalization of the Disney Princess
Commentary (Essay) · Federica Gianelli
2020
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The Light and Dark Sides of Star Wars
13 stories · 2021
A General Overview of Star Wars Characters as Archetypes
Commentary (Essay) · Burcin Unal, Fatma Okumus
2021
A Narratological Comparison of A New Hope and The Force Awakens with Regards to Todorov's Equilibrium and Propp's Character Theories
Commentary (Essay) · Can Dayioglu
2021
Living Up to Your Grandfather's Expectations
Commentary (Essay) · Futen Larlar
2021
Media Visibility in the Context of Storytelling: Research on Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Ozgur Kilinc, Sevil Uzoglu Baycu
2021
Solo: A Star Wars Story - Narrative, Intergenre, Pansexuality, and Lack of Force
Commentary (Essay) · Ali Karadogan
2021
The Acousmatic Sounds of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Lale Kabadayi
2021
The Connection of the Star Wars Film Series to the Ancient Roman Civilization of the Meditteranean
Commentary (Essay) · Erkan Iznik
2021
The Creators of Star Wars: Writers, Directors, and Legends
Commentary (Essay) · Yagiz Uzunonat
2021
The Evolution of Women's Representations in Star Wars: Leia, Padme, and Rey
Commentary (Essay) · Nadide Gizem Akculgul
2021
The Music of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · George Christopoulos
2021
The Political Economy of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Ufuk Kucukcan
2021
The Struggle Between the Light and Dark Sides: The Ideology of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · S. Serhat Serter
2021
The Use of Visual Effects in Star Wars, Past and Present
Commentary (Essay) · Nadide Gizem Akculgul
2021
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Our Blessed Rebel Queen
9 stories · 2021
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"Carrie Fisher Sent Me": Gendered Political Protest, Star Wars, and the Women's March
Commentary (Essay) · Tanya D. Zuk
2021
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"My Body Hasn't Aged As Well As I Have. Blow Us.": Carrie Fisher and the Unruly Aging Actress
Commentary (Essay) · Kristen Anderson Wagner
2021
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"Stay Afraid, but Do It Anyway": Carrie Fisher's Mental Health Advocacy
Commentary (Essay) · Cynthia Hoffner, Sejung Park
2021
1 re-release
Comedy from the Edge: Carrie Fisher's Autobiographical Writing
Commentary (Essay) · Linda Mizejewski
2021
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Gatekeeping the Past: Fandom and the Gendered Cultural Memory of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Phillip Domenik Keidl
2021
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Harvesting the Celebrity Interface: Carrie Fisher, Virtual Performance, and Software Stars
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Kemp-Wilcox
2021
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Postcards from the Valley of the Broads: Carrie Fisher, Jacqueline Susann, and Feminist Camp Authorship
Commentary (Essay) · Ken Feil
2021
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Threshold Guardian to Space Mom: Here but for the Sake of Carrie, Go I
Commentary (Essay) · Slade Kinnecott
2021
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Who Owns Carrie Fisher: A Complicated Embodiment of Manufactured Commodity and Avatar of Resistance
Commentary (Essay) · Jennifer Fogel
2021
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Theology and the Star Wars Universe
16 stories · 2022
An Arche not Anarchic Enouch: A Spirited Critique of the Force
Commentary (Essay) · Ryan G. Duns
2022
And Also With You: An Examination of the Demystification of the Jedi and the Clergy
Commentary (Essay) · Josiah Brock, Nettie Brock
2022
And What More Shall I Say?: Heroism in Hebrews 11 and Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Bethany Keeley-Jonker, Robert Keeley
2022
Bringing Balance to the Force: George Lucas's Politico-Critical Refiguring of Salvation
Commentary (Essay) · John C. McDowell
2022
From Padawan to Jedi: The Theological Premise for the Necessity of the Master-Aprrentice Relationship in the Path of the Spiritual Ascension
Commentary (Essay) · Abdallah Rothman
2022
In Defense of the Nonviolent Luke: A Confrontation between Nieburhian Realism and Christian Nonviolence in The Last Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew J. Kuzma
2022
Lifting Rocks: Camus, Sainthood, and the Anti-Heroic in The Last Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Russel P. Johnson
2022
Mysticism and Romance: Theology of The Last Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Rostislav Kurka
2022
Rediscovering the Sith and the Jedi: A Spiritual Analogy in Renaissance Humanism and Desert Asceticism
Commentary (Essay) · Nathan Garcia
2022
Subverting the Ancient Religion: The Gray Ecclesiology of Ahsoka Tano and Old Man Luke
Commentary (Essay) · Tim Posada
2022
The Modern Manicheans: Binaries of Light and Dark in Contemporary Culture
Commentary (Essay) · Jonathan Lyonhart
2022
The Word of God and the W(h)ill of the Force: Canon and Authority within the Star Wars Universe and Franchise
Commentary (Essay) · James F. McGrath
2022
Theology and the Star Wars Universe Introduction
Commentary (Essay) · Benjamin Espinoza
2022
Thomas Aquinas's Account of Hope as a Hermeneutical Lens for Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Shaun C. Brown
2022
Undoing the Memory Wipe: Metz, Droids, and the Victims of History
Commentary (Essay) · Edward Dunar
2022
Use (the) Force: Jedi, Monks, and Unexpected Violence
Commentary (Essay) · Zachary Smith
2022
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The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy
Commentary (Essay) · Chris Kempshall
2022
Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back
31 stories · 2023
"A Pathway to Many Abilities Some Consider to Be Unnatural": The Natural Law Ethics of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Daniel Banning, Joel Archer, Matthew Shea
2023
"Another Solution Will Present Itself": The Phantom Menace, Daoism, and Doing Without Trying
Commentary (Essay) · Russel P. Johnson
2023
"Corporations Do Not Rule Us": The Separatist Freedom Movement and the Struggle for Justice
Commentary (Essay) · Mohammed Shakibnia
2023
"I Know There is Good in You": Luke, Anakin, and Confucian Filial Piety
Commentary (Essay) · Eric Yang
2023
"No One Rescues Droids": Rebels on Race and Racism
Commentary (Essay) · Steve Bein
2023
"Rebellions are Built on Hope": The Creative Democratic Force of Rogue One
Commentary (Essay) · Terrance MacMullan
2023
A Long Time Ago? Time and Time Travel in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Philipp Berghofer
2023
Awakening Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in a Galaxy, Far, Far Away
Commentary (Essay) · Edwardo Perez
2023
Beneath the Helmet, Beyond the Way: The Mandalorian and Moral Decision-Making
Commentary (Essay) · Noam Ebner
2023
Bioethics Wars: Fear and Fallcy in Revenge of the Sith
Commentary (Essay) · Thomas D. Harter
2023
Building the Death Star: Complicity in Moral Evil
Commentary (Essay) · Jason T. Eberl
2023
Deleuze, the Force of Becoming, and The Last Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Corry Shores
2023
Force and Geist: Hegel Watches The Empire Strikes Back
Commentary (Essay) · Umut Eldem
2023
Friendship, Love, and Sex with Droids in Solo: "How Would That Work?" "It works"
Commentary (Essay) · Dan Weijers, Nick Munn
2023
Grogu's Little Way: The Binds of Powe and the Bonds of Love in The Mandalorian
Commentary (Essay) · Isabel Bishop, Jeffrey P. Bishop
2023
Han Solo: The Corellian Evasion of Philosophy
Commentary (Essay) · Kevin S. Decker
2023
Individuality and Identity: Are Clones Literally a "Band (or Batch) of Brothers"?
Commentary (Essay) · Patricia L. Brace
2023
Introduction (Star Wars & Philosophy Strikes Back)
Commentary (Essay) · Jason T. Eberl
2023
Just How Many "Lukes" Are There in A New Hope, Anyway?
Commentary (Essay) · Nathan Kellen, Roy T. Cook
2023
La L3-37 Continue: Droid Rights and the Problem of Legal Personhood
Commentary (Essay) · Joshua Jowitt
2023
Mothers, Daughters, Rebels: Women's Bodies in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Aikaterini-Maria Lakka
2023
Of Graffiti and Kalikoris
Commentary (Essay) · Daniel Malloy
2023
Order 66: The Fragility of Moral Autonomy in the Clone Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Timothy Challans
2023
Paradox of Faith: The Way of Din Djarin and Kierkegaard
Commentary (Essay) · Patrick Tiernan
2023
Passionate Love, Platonic Love, and Force Love in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · James Lawler
2023
Reading the Mind of Din Djarin: The Music of The Mandalorian
Commentary (Essay) · Lance Bellumomini
2023
Should You Eat Baby Yoda?
Commentary (Essay) · A.G Holdier
2023
The Failure of Jedi Ethics: The Jedi Betrayal of Ahsoka
Commentary (Essay) · James Rocha, Mona Rocha
2023
The Last Jedi's Despair: Did Episode VIII Ruin Luke Skywalker?
Commentary (Essay) · David Kyle Johnson
2023
The Non-dualistic, Redemptive Metaphysics of the Jedi
Commentary (Essay) · Michael Baur
2023
The Rise of Rey Skywalker: The Importance of Community and Friends in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · James M. Okapal
2023
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Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away
12 stories · 2023
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21-87: Not Just a Number in Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Emily Strand
2023
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Choices and Consequences in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic IIThe Sith Lords
Commentary (Essay) · Aaron Masters
2023
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Expanding Universes: Star Wars and the Cultivation of Canon
Commentary (Essay) · John Jackson Miller
2023
1 re-release
Foreword (Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away)
Commentary (Essay) · Ian Doescher
2023
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From 'Utinni!' to 'Aliit Ori'shya Taldin': the Glossopoeiac Journey of Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Andrew Higgins
2023
1 re-release
Introduction (Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away)
Commentary (Essay) · Amy Sturgis, Emily Strand
2023
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Sabacc Fans Playable Representations of Star Wars Cultural Memory
Commentary (Essay) · Jennifer Russell-Long
2023
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Saving What We Love: The Hope and Resistance of Makers and Craftspeople in Disneys Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Vicky C. Terrile
2023
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The Dead Moms Peril: Star Wars and the Dispossession of the Mother Figure
Commentary (Essay) · Eloise Thompson-Tremblay
2023
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The Evolution of Twileks in the Star Wars Universe
Commentary (Essay) · Amy Richau
2023
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The Map in the Mirror: Reflections of Time, Self, and Salvation in Star Wars and Harry Potter
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"A New Hope": From American Graffiti to Star Wars
Commentary (Essay) · Peter Kramer
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"Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been?": The Alientation of the Administered Society, Running to Freedom, and the Dystopianism of George Lucas's THX 1138
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American Graffiti and More: The Scholarly and Aesthetic Legacies of an Inaugural Nostalgia Film
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Changing Critical and Popular Responses to the Star Wars Prequels
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From Sass to Seduction: The Ambiguously Tough Ladies of Star Wars and Indiana Jones
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George and the Dinosaurs: George Lucas's Contributions to The Land Before Time and Jurassic Park
Commentary (Essay) · Kathy Merlock Jackson
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George Lucas in Museums
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2024
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Introduction (Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy)
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Lucas Meets Luxo: Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Lab (CGL) and the Development of Pixar Animation Studios
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LucasArts and the Hollywoodization of Video Games
Commentary (Essay) · Stefan Hall
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Marcia Lucas: Her Life and Hollywood Legacy
Commentary (Essay) · Michael Kaminsky
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Notes on the Lucas-Spielberg Syndrome
Commentary (Essay) · Jim Kendrick
2024
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Reflections on George Lucas and Modesto
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Researching the Lucasfilm Yearbooks: "FAMILYONE WIFE, ONE DISCO-BOOGIE BABY, AND 425 FOSTER KIDS"
Commentary (Essay) · Julie Turlock
2024
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Star Wars Special Editions: Film Ownership and Cultural Implications
Commentary (Essay) · Patti McCarthy
2024
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The Audience Is Listening: The Film Sound Legacy of George Lucas
Commentary (Essay) · Stephen Andriano-Moore
2024
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The Dislocations of Skywalker Ranch
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Writing About Star Wars: A Historiography of the Star Wars Original Trilogy
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2024
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