This week in "Star Wars Appreciation 101," Julia and Fern try not to lose the plot while watching Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Analyzing the film’s structure, conflicts, and (weird) pacing, they make some surprising discoveries about the story we think we know. Spoiler Alert: However long you think the Death Star sequence is, no it’s not.
On the Syllabus this Week:
- Lucas, George, director. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Twentieth Century Fox, 1977.
- Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter 14th Edition. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2022.
Additional Sources:
- Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Jospeh Campbell). New World Library, 3rd ed., 2008.
Next Class:
- Narration and POV (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)
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