Rey At Risk Revisited: The Danger Signs From The Last Jedi
After the release of The Force Awakens, Rey immediately took her place as one of the top-tier fan-favorite characters in
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Rey At Risk: Keeping Lucasfilm Accountable to Her Potential
For fans who’ve always wanted to see a female character take the lead in a Star Wars movie, and who’ve
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Rey Deserved Better: The Failures of The Rise of Skywalker, Part 1
From its earliest incarnations, in the ideas generated by George Lucas and the blue sky imaginings of J.J. Abrams and
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Skywalker At Risk: Serial Storytelling and Brand Value
The contemporary entertainment industry – not only movies and television, but also prose fiction, comics, and gaming – sometimes finds
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Leia At Risk Revisited: The Stakes After The Last Jedi
If Carrie Fisher had lived to see the conversations sparked by #MeToo and #TimesUp unfold across social media and public
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The Last Jedi and the Hero’s Journey – Part One: Rey
In launching the Sequel Trilogy, The Force Awakens drew heavily on the two opening films that preceded it. Visually, thematically,
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The Problems With Rey Random: A Storytelling Analysis
In the months leading up to the release of The Last Jedi, Star Wars fans wondered whether the film would
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Target Is Poised to Bring Their Rey Game
After the first Force Friday left many Star Wars fans asking “Where’s Rey?” (see here, here, and here for examples
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Leia At Risk: Grief, Nostalgia, and Mythic Storytelling
by Tricia Barr & B.J. Priester Fandom and Lucasfilm alike have been in mourning for Carrie Fisher since her death
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Finding Rey: Beyond The Force Awakens Film
Two weekends after The Force Awakens came out in movie theaters in the United States, I found myself standing in
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