![]() ![]() ![]() Or as Lucas put it, “That isn’t retiring.” Lucas contemplated not putting Lucasfilm up for sale and instead having somebody else run the production of the sequel trilogy, but that wouldn’t have given the director the family time he craved. So the question was, ‘Am I going to keep doing this for the rest of my life? Do I want to go through this again?’ Finally, I decided I’d rather raise my daughter and enjoy life for a while.”ĭisney and Other Studios Demand Showrunners Continue to Work During WGA Strike It takes 10 years to make a trilogy - Episodes I to III took from 1995 to 2005. ![]() “I was also about to have a daughter with my wife. “At that time, I was starting the next trilogy I talked to the actors and I was starting to gear up,” Lucas told Duncan when asked about why he sold Lucasfilm to Disney. Eight years after Lucasfilm sold to Disney in a deal worth over $4 billion, George Lucas says the decision to give up control of his iconic space franchise remains “very, very painful.” Lucas sat down with author Paul Duncan for an interview as part of the just-released new book “The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III 1999-2005,” an excerpt from which finds the filmmaker getting honest about his career-defining decision to prioritize family over “ Star Wars.” ![]()
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There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. But every few nights something-or someone-picks off one of the sheep and sets off a new deep pulse of terror. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wanted it to be. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Balance of Power (Tooth and Claw Book 3) by Amelia Faulkner. ![]() Tell us, in no more than 150 words, why you think Amelia Faulkner is great. And Charles Devitt wants him destroyed once and for all. 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To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors – Indigenous, Black, and White – in the Deep South. ![]() From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women – her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries – that urge her to succeed in their stead. ![]() Ailey grows up in the North, in the City, but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. ![]() Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Du Bois, once wrote about the problem of race in America, and what he called ‘double consciousness’, a sensitivity that very African American possesses in order to survive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This paper is based on three selected novels entitled Does My Head Look Big In This? (2005), Ten Things I Hate About Me (2006), and Where The Streets Had A Name (2008) written by Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979), a Palestinian-Egyptian Australian Muslim diasporic writer. In this way, it will be argued, the protagonist of Abdel-Fattah’s novel is not only “challenged” by anti-Muslim stereotypes, she “challenges back.” ![]() Rather than engage in a patient, rational, and didactic discussion with what are essentially impatient and irrational representations, Does My Head Look Big in This? adopts a strategy of parody-an exaggerated, often funny, redeployment of anti-Muslim stereotypes-in order to expose the ignorance wherein they originate. Central to this discussion is theoretical work by Judith Butler, whose notion of parody emphasizes the destabilizing effect that parody has for otherwise oppressive images and stereotypes. As will be argued here, stereotypes of Muslims and, in particular, Muslim women present not only challenges for the novel’s central protagonist but also sites for her intervention. This article explores anti-Muslim stereotypes and strategies for combating them as presented in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s first novel for young readers, Does My Head Look Big in This? First published in 2005, in the wake of terrorist attacks in the United States and Bali, the novel focuses on the everyday life of a second-generation Palestinian teenager who decides, as she puts it, to wear the hijab “full time” in a predominantly non-Muslim school in Australia. ![]() |