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 Contemporary
film is increasingly made of the stuff of myth. Explore those myths, in
all their forms, in the following works.
 FINDING
THE
FORCE OF THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE: FANS, MERCHANDISE, AND CRITICS brings together contributors who critically
analyze the Star Wars
universe from many perspectives. Topics include war, foreign policy,
gender roles, spirituality and religion, toy play and adult collecting,
creative fandom, race, special effects, and mythology. The merchandise of
the original trilogy was largely confined to toys and games, but those
games have since become computerized, the toys more sophisticated, and
Star Wars has moved into the multi-media environment of the
twenty-first century in ways unimaginable in the long ago world of
1977.Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & John Shelton Lawrence.   JACKING IN TO
THE MATRIX FRANCHISE: CULTURAL RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION is
the only
academic study to
take an in-depth look at all of these products, a coherent overview of
the franchise as a whole. The book gathers original articles
that comment on the cultural and religious implications of The
Matrix
trilogy, its place within the cyberworlds of contemporary literature
and philosophy, and its portrayal of gender and race.Edited by Matthew Kapell & William G. Doty.
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