Offers an informative overview on Star Wars, focusing on the importance of storytelling combined with filmmaking and its overarching connection to philosophy.

AMERICANA - E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary

Cyrus Patell's immensely engaging volume dismantles the long-assumed tension between film as industrial production and film as an art form capable of philosophical reflection when controlled by an auteur. In considering Lucasfilm and the Star Wars universe as evidence for the existence of a corporate cogito, Patell argues for the films' cosmopolitanism, working with their viewers to build a model of the world and contemplate how best to live in it.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA

In Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe, Cyrus R. K. Patell takes cultural criticism to a new level, advancing a cosmopolitan reading practice that grounds the concerns of contemporary critical theory in the discursive realities of media production and media reception. From the Modesto-born Journal of the Whills to the StageCraft-enabled filming facilities of The Mandalorian, Patell clearly and humanely charts an emergent mythology of the postmodern age.

Marc Dolan, Professor of English, Film Studies, and American Studies, The City University of New York, USA