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Decoding Star Wars reveals the relationships between films, code, software and power both on and off screen in the Star Wars universe.

Since the production and release of The Phantom Menace (1999), the Star Wars franchise has increasingly relied on computer code to tell its stories and circulate its various media via CGI, digital exhibition, and online distribution. But who writes the code and develops the software that makes Star Wars possible as it expands from the twentieth into the 21st century? How do programmers’ identities inform how they design and circulate the films? And why does the history of code remain hidden in narratives about Star Wars filmmaking and viewing?

Decoding Star Wars answers these questions to reveal how gender and race are central to the Star Wars universe, from the creation of its algorithms to the ways that characters are represented onscreen. In addition, it demonstrates how cinema is complicated by computers, digital technologies, and power, in ways that are so far unexplored in film history.



Table of Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Software and Biocomputing On and Beyond the Screen
1. Bloodlines in Binary
2. The Inexplicable Force

Part II: Narrative and Representational Codes
3. Decompressing Technologies
4. Atlases of Power

Part III: Decoding Canon and Fan Productions
5. Making and Circulating
6. From Another Point of View

Aftermath
Bibliography
Index



About the Author :
Rebecca Harrison is a UK-based Independent Scholar. She has published From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity (2018), and articles on cinema, technology, and their intersections with gender, race and class. She received the Routledge-IAMHIST Best Article by a Junior Scholar Award in 2016.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781501348310
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1501348310
  • Publisher Date: 05 Mar 2026


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