Comparing Two Fresh Starts: Captain Marvel and Star Wars
In longstanding ongoing serial storytelling franchises, eventually the inclination to make a fresh start with iconic characters will arise. It
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The State of Star Wars Storytelling: What Happens Next?
Over forty years into the franchise, it can be difficult to isolate the various factors that have contributed to Star
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We’ve Been Here Before: Parallels in the Public Narrative on the State of Star Wars
Mirroring of visuals, parallelism in themes, rhyming story beats. The Star Wars franchise has become famous for the way it
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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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Resurrecting Legends: Is the Star Wars Reboot Gendered?
In telling the story of the group of Rebels who secured the plans to the Empire’s dreaded Death Star, Rogue
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A Myth Reborn: The Force Awakens
by Priya Chhaya Beware! [Channeling Yoda] Beyond first paragraph, spoilers there be…. “The bee in his bonnet was that history
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Recalling Star Wars Books with Nerd Lunch
For over a year now, I’ve been a
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The New Jedi Order: As Good As We Remembered on Fangirl Chat
Bloggers Megan Crouse (Den of Geek, Blog Full of Words) and Rocky Blonshine (Eleven-ThirtyEight) both embarked on New Jedi Order
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Aftermath of Losing the Star War Expanded Universe
by Priya Chhaya In eighth grade science class my friend Tracy slid me a folded piece of notebook paper. Scrawled
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Fanon, Canon and the Blurring Lines Between Them
Fan fiction is being covered widely across media. Tricia Barr discusses why it is a topic that has become unavoidable to franchises.
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