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WRITTEN  BY

Kevin Doherty

 

2024

Canada

6x9 Paperback

270 pages

Pop Culture

Film & Television

 

 

GROWING UP STAR WARS contains anecdotes aplenty of what it was like as an eight-year-old seeing STAR WARS for the first time at the movie theater and how it afflicted me for the rest of my life with STAR WARS fever.

 

GROWING UP STAR WARS recounts how the dark and mind-blowing sequel, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK impacted eleven-year-old me in 1980, and how the uplifting, celebratory third film, RETURN OF THE JEDI affected me as a cool, mature, haughty teenager in 1983.

 

I take you through my experiences of what it what it was like as a young adult to live through “the dark times” when STAR WARS disappeared from existence and practically fell off the face of the earth in the late ‘80s into the ‘90s.

 

The memoir culminates with my retrospections on the film’s slow-burn rebirth in the early ‘90s to the smashing block-busting revival in the late ‘90s with the release of the special editions that brought STAR WARS back into the mainstream where it would stay, through the 2000s with the prequels, and again though the 2010s with the Disney Sequels and the TV series’. Here’s where the fun begins!

Available on Amazon and at other fine bookstores. If they don’t carry it—ask them to get it!

magictoasterfilms@hotmail.com

www.kevindohertyfilms.com

 

Remains of the only known Kevin Doherty designed Star Wars mobile in existence.

 

Mom pays the price on Christmas morning for buying me the wrong Death Star Space Station playset.

 

     Promo poster for one of my action figure movies.

 

My comic book adaptation of Episode III: The Fall of the Republic

High school notebook doodle circa 1985.

This is what I pictured heaven looking like.

 

“Star Wars Memories” article I wrote for the premier issue of my

self-published magazine: “LET’S TALK MOVIES”.

I sacrificed my Star Wars novel (and some trading cards) to be able to provide my magazine with

FULL COLOR PHOTOS!

Text Box: READ! 
What it was like seeing Star Wars through the eyes of an eight year old 
in 1977!
READ!
What it was like seeing The Empire Strikes Back through the eyes of an eleven year old in 1980!
READ!
What it was like seeing Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a fourteen 
year old in 1983!
READ!
What it’s been like seeing all the subsequent releases from the Prequels to the Disney sequels to the television series' through the eyes of that same person as an adult!

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