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Starwars.com The official Star Wars site. Includes links to four episodes, covering characters, vehicles, droids, locations, aliens, creatures, weapons, technology, cast, crew and production development. |
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Myth in Star Wars An online essay discussing Star Wars as a 'world' story with classic elements of myth by Robert Brown. |
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Star Wars: A New Hope A paper analysing the ways in which the structure of Star Wars: A New Hope is similar to a fairy tale. Submitted by Kyle Gilman to Harvard Core Course Literature & Arts A-18: "Fairy Tales, Children’s Literature, and the Culture of Childhood" |
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Star Wars: a twentieth century fairytale An analysis of the Star Wars trilogy according to the Bettelheim model by Janet Vertesi. Expands a thesis originally written for Grade 12 English, focusing on the plot as a modern fairytale and the characters as archetypes. |
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The Star Wars series and Wagner's Ring: structural, thematic and musical connections An article discussing: the structural identities of both works, focusing on their processes of production and in their reception; the thematic identities in the use of sub-narrations and in the use of symbols; and the musical identities in the way the music is connected to the text and the action, and in the structure of the music itself. By Kristian Evensen, November 1999. |
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The effects of the Star Wars trilogy on culture and its epic implications Discusses Star War's status as a sociological phenomenon. Daniel P. Reed. |
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Henderson, Mary S. Star Wars: the magic of myth. New York: Bantam Books, 1997