GROWING UP STAR WARS

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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!

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