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    Editors’ Introduction for NANO Special Issue 12: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters, Media, and Event by Jason W. Ellis, Sean Scanlan

    Published 2017-12-01
    “…Readers can glean my opinion from that evaluative sentence. Are the scenes parallel to earlier movies? This movie, the new characters, the new poster, the toys, the novelization (by Alan Dean Foster, the science fiction writer and film novelization specialist who served as ghost writer for George Lucas’ Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, 1976, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2016), and the countless viewing parties, the information sites such as Wookieepedia, and wonderful spoofs such as YouTube’s Bad Lip Reading enable me to say that this film is far beyond simple nostalgia and money-making scheme—though both of those are in play here. …”
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    Mundos utópicos y distópicos: el progreso y la ciencia como síntomas modernos en el cine mexicano de ciencias ficción / Utopian and Dystopian Worlds: Science and Progress as Modern... by Alejandro González Garza, Diego Zavala Scherer

    Published 2016-08-01
    “…Through the characterization of the stories, we extract a typology that distinguishes two different kinds of science fiction: hardcore and softcore stories. The text focuses on the hardcore films, which develop a whole narrative world linked to science, progress, or a better future as the main argument of the movie, and by doing so, we trace the prints of modernity and of universal discourses still present in Mexican national project, visible in its filmography. …”
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