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A Brief Guide to Star Wars

Brian J. Robb

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	A Brief Guide to Star Wars
Author	:	Brian J. Robb
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	October 30th 2012 by Running Press (first published September 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Media Tie In. Star Wars. Nonfiction. Reference

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Perhaps I should have expected it from a book called A Brief Guide to Star Wars, but this really was a surprisingly...brief book. In 250 pages, the entirety of the Star Wars film series and resultant franchise, combined with a zippy biography of Lucas's personal life and other film pursuits, is quite a lot of content with too little time. And as a Star Wars fan for the majority of my life, I found few surprises. That said, this book did a wonderful job of synthesizing all of that information, particularly in the creation of the films and the subsequent marketing of tie-ins, that I have not encountered elsewhere. Brian J. Robb's direct experience with the cast and crew of the films and his involvement as editor for the Official Star Wars Magazine and Star Wars Insider are readily apparent in his intimate assembly of such far-flung information. The book feels well-researched, as is supported by his professional background and the list of resources that he cites to in the appendix (while on the subject, I would have appreciated footnotes to the sources he referenced, at least for the quotes, but I suppose that the book would no longer have met its goal of being brief).

Reading this book felt less about gaining knowledge and more about gaining insight (though there was a lot of good content, I thought, about Lucas's formative years). I stepped away with a fuller understanding of George Lucas the man and the artist, with a clearer regard for his strengths and his weaknesses. I appreciated his force of will and his creativeness even more, and Robb did a wonderful job of synthesizing the entirety of Lucas and his career, neither leaving him on a pedestal for his achievements and devoted fandom nor tearing him apart for his cinematic flaws. It was especially cool for me to see how Lucas both was operating from extensive source material he developed early on and extensive alterations and impromptu ideas that he created further down the line, often in response to design and producer contributions (going a long way to smooth over conflicting accounts of when which elements of the films were first conceived). I also gained a greater appreciation for the combined, collaborative effort of the entire assembled creative team that was invested into each film, the interplay between the different elements of the cast and crew from pre-production to final edits. This book made the entirety of the franchise into a reality of individual films supported by numerous tie-in projects and merchandising.

I appreciated the book's closing attempts to deal with the future of the franchise, with discussions of recurrent themes, Lucas's role, potential future successors, the idea of an Expanded Universe reboot, the discussion of future films despite Lucas's denial, and, most impressive, direct comparisons between Lucas's media empire and Disney. A lot of events have since occurred - like Rick McCallum's departure from Lucasfilm - but I thought it quite impressive that Robb was drawing links between Disney and Lucasfilm, with the subtlest of implications present therein, in a book that was published over a month before the announcement of the Disney purchase.

I do have some minor qualms. The book is not clearly directed at a particular audience, often including parenthetical divergences explaining the most obvious plot and character elements from the film, while also casually referencing characters and content from the larger Star Wars mythos. And who picks up this book with only a very casual interest in Star Wars? Maybe this is meant to have broader appeal, but "behind the scenes" stories seem typically marketed to devoted fans. And another thing: the writing is incredibly boring. Robb constantly repeats words and phrases, and the chapters often feel like uninspired, formulaic slogs to the finish. I'm willing to attribute that to meeting the requirement of brevity, but I did get particularly annoyed at some of these repeats, like the immeasurable times that an interviewee "admitted" something, when "stated," "informed," "joked," "digressed," "opined," etc. would have been more appropriate, let alone just keeping a more consistent use of "said" when no descriptive modifier was needed.

But the story here is quite intriguing, and for its compact nature, I would still recommend this book to anyone looking for a holistic synthesis of the Star Wars franchise.

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ISBN:	0762446277 (ISBN13: 9780762446278)
Edition Language:	English

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This was an enjoyable little book that focused on the making of the Star Wars saga of films and George Lucas' rise from rebel filmmaker to ruler of his own business empire.It's not the standard book that one sees of the style "The Making of..." Its focus is on George Lucas starting in his youth and the areas of his life that resulted in the creation of the Star Wars story. From the troubles he had in getting the first film made to the end when he became able to fund the films himself.Most the

Perhaps I should have expected it from a book called A Brief Guide to Star Wars, but this really was a surprisingly...brief book. In 250 pages, the entirety of the Star Wars film series and resultant franchise, combined with a zippy biography of Lucas's personal life and other film pursuits, is quite a lot of content with too little time. And as a Star Wars fan for the majority of my life, I found few surprises. That said, this book did a wonderful job of synthesizing all of that information,

The title is certainly not misleading because brief is exactly how I would describe this books breakdown of the behind-the-scenes nature of George Lucas's Star Wars saga... Almost like a readers digest version, this is a very interesting and enjoyable read but slightly frustrating in which things discussed immediately courtship a want to know more about things not covered in the book. Certainly worth the time for fans of Star Wars or people just interested in the background behind the films, but

Brian J. Robb is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling biographer of Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. He has also written books on silent cinema, the films of Philip K. Dick, Wes Craven, and Laurel and Hardy, the Star Wars movies, Superheroes, Gangsters, and Walt Disney, as well as science fiction television series Doctor Who and Star Trek. His illustrated books include an



A nice, compact summary of the history of Star Wars and its various creative people. Not all the information was accurate, though; occasional grammatical errors (and not the British English differences), too.

No muchas sorpresas para los ultra fanáticos de SW pero compacto y preciso sobre la historia de las películas y su creador. Buena mini biografía de Lucas al principio.