Star Wars: Library Resources

Stream the theme music, watch Anthony Daniels talk about portraying C-3PO and George Lucas talk about his vision, learn about franchise marketing, and more.

Featuring extensive interviews with KotOR's producers, writers, designers, and actors, journalist Alex Kane weaves together an epic oral history of this classic game, from its roots in tabletop role-playing and comic books, to its continued influence on big-screen Star Wars films.

Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, Carmelo Esterrich explores what these stories set in a galaxy far far away have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war.

Curated critical essays from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars bringing Star Wars and its transmedia narratives more fully into the fold of media and cultural studies.

Funny and insightful tell-all about the two decades Bill Kimberlin spent as a department director at LucasFilm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), the special effects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas.

This is the story of how, in the five years after its sale to Disney, Star Wars went from near-certain extinction to what Wired magazine would call "the forever franchise," with more films in the works than its first four decades had produced.

Brings together over thirty of today's top military and strategic experts, including generals, policy advisors, seasoned diplomats, counterinsurgency strategists, science fiction writers, war journalists, and ground‑level military officers, to explain the strategy and the art of war by way of the Star Wars films.

Part 6 of Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert; Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews, by Roger Ebert

Chapter 4 of Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies, by Ariel Rogers

Chapter 5 of Fan Culture: Theory/Practice, by Katherine Larsen and Lynn Zuberis

Part II: Chapter 4 of John Williams's Film Music : Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style, by Emilio Audissino

Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, by Philip C. DiMare

Chapter 5 (Author: Neil Lerner), from Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema, by Philip Hayward

Section 3 of On Religion, by John D. Caputo

Section I, Chapter 4 of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, by David L. Kirp

From The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars, by Philip Krämer

An intriguing collection of essays addressing the influences that shaped the films, as well as the impact the franchise has had on popular culture.

A provocative collection of essays exploring some of the more intriguing aspects of the Star Wars phenomenon.

Explores numerous aspects of Star Wars fandom, from its characters to its philosophy.

Over the past century, Disney has grown from a small American animation studio into a multipronged global media giant. Today, the company's annual revenue exceeds the GDP of over 100 countries, and its portfolio has grown to include Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC, and ESPN.

Chapter 8 of Title: From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film, by Roz Kaveney