The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film’s ‘classic’ status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author’s personal response to the film.
For a full list of titles in the series, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bfi-film-classics
This book is dedicated to all trans, non-binary, gay, lesbian, bisexual, Black, of colour, disabled, sex worker, indigenous, survivor, working-class and women Star Wars fans – in all their constellations of identity and presentation. It is written, with love, for all the galaxy’s orphans; to all those who fight for equality and justice despite being marginalized or underrepresented or told they don’t belong. May our alliances be strong. May our resistance be hopeful. May the Force be with us. Always.