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(More customer reviews)The author, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr, starts out with a few points that should be repeated, even in the review. One, the films are all products of their era. Two, like it or not, the films are not just movies. They DO influence us and pass on values and ideas, even some that Lucas didn't put into them. They can't be dismissed or ignored. Like it or not the Star Wars films reach a lot of people and do deliver messages to them about race, sex and religion.
The book debates how the films treat women vs. men, Asians vs. Europeans, religion, rebellion and even how the films treat EMPIRE! Do we want kids to see these movies? That is up to you but the book does dive into the layers and shows us how the movies do SEEM to lean towards Empires, put men above women and do treat Asian culture and history like myth while treating European culture and history with more respect. While the book is said to be based on all six films, it seems that once or twice it seems to only focus on the first five. It is as if the last one, Episode Three, was not yet finished when the book was. It feels, in some places, to be badly put together or only half thought out, like somebody took their class lectures and molded them into a book.
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