Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:36:10 +1000
From: Lynette Russell <lynette.russell-AT-arts.monash.edu.au>
Subject: References for Star Wars/Phantom Menace


Though not always about Star Wars some of these references maybe helpful.

Beehler, M. 1987 Border Patrols in G. Slusser and E.S. Rabkin (eds) Aliens: The
Anthropology of Science Fiction, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois
Press
Benford, G. 1987 Effing the Ineffable, in G. Slusser and E.S. Rabkin (eds)
Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction, Carbondale and Edwardsville:
Southern Illinois Press.

Bernardi, D.L. 1998 Star Trek and History: Racing Toward a White Future, New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Boyd, K.G. 1996 Cyborgs in Utopia: The Problem of Racial Difference in Star
Trek, in T. Harrison, S. Projansky, K. Ono and E.R. Helford (eds) Enterprise
Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek, New York: Westview Press, pp 95-114.

Hastie, A. 1996 A Fabricated Space: Assimilating the individual on Star Trek:
the Next Generation, in T. Harrison, S. Projansky, K. Ono and E.R. Helford (eds)
Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek, New York: Westview Press, pp
115-136.

Ono, K. 1996 Domesticating Terrorism: A Neo colonial Economy of Difference, in
T. Harrison, S. Projansky, K. Ono and E.R. Helford (eds) Enterprise Zones:
Critical Positions on Star Trek, New York: Westview Press, pp 157-188.

Richards, T. 1997 The Meaning of Star Trek, New York: Double Day.

Wilcox, R 1996 Miscegenation in Star Trek: The Next Generation, in T. Harrison,
S. Projansky, K. Ono and E.R. Helford (eds) Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions
on Star Trek, New York: Westview Press, pp 69-94.

Weinstock, J. 1996 Freaks in Space: "Extra-terrestrialism" and "Deep-Space
Multiculturalism" in R.G. Thompson (ed) Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the
Extraordinary Body, New York: New York University Press, pp 327-337.

Woolmack, J. 1994 Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and
Postmodernism, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.








Piali Roy wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  I realized after I sent out my email that I meant
> race not post-colonialism.  I am looking for a cultural studies treatment of
> Star Wars, particularly in reference to the abundance of "species" such as
> Wookies and Ewoks, but not of human races.  Where else can I look?
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> Piali Roy
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> >Not precisely postcolonial, but for a treatment of race, see David
> >Golumbia, "Black and White World: Race, Ideology, and Utopia in Triton and
> >Star Trek" Cultural Critique 32 (Winter 95-96), 75-96.
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> >Suzanne Daly
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> >On Tue, 11 May 1999, Piali Roy wrote:
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> >> Does anyone know where to find post-colonial critiques of the Star Wars
> series?
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> >> Thanks in advance,
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> >> Piali Roy
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