Watching Skies Star Wars, Spielberg and Us [Paperback]

AsReady Player OneandStranger Thingsprove the retro might of VHS era cinema,Watching Skies: Star Wars, Spielberg and Usis a universal and affectionate tale about the pop cultural remembrances stuck in all our R2 unit’s memory systems.
 
Like many a British kid in an ‘80s world of VCRs, Reagan and Atari, Mark O’Connell wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on theStar Warstoy commercials.Jaws,Close Encounters of the Third Kind,E.T. The Extra Terrestrial,Raiders of the Lost Ark,Superman, and of courseStar Warsweren’t just changing cinema—they were making lasting highways into our childhoods, toy boxes, and video stores like never before.
 
In this energetic and insightful memoir-through-cinema, O’Connell flies a gilded X-Wing through a universe of bedroom remakes ofReturn of the Jedi, close encounters with Christopher Reeve, sticker album swaps, a honeymoon on Amity Island, and the trauma of losing an entireStar Warsfigure collection.
 
A unique study on how a rich galaxy of movies continue shaping big and vital cinema to this day,Watching Skiesis for allStar Warskids—whatever their era.
 
It is about how George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, a shark, two motherships, some gremlins, Ghostbusters, and a man of steel jumped a whole generation to hyperspace* (*action figures not included).

"A fantastic personal account of one of the greatest chapters in movie history. An unmitigated delight." —Mark Gatiss

“I thought I was the only person obsessed with every single thing written in this book, but fortunately for the rest of us Mark O’Connell is too. This is the ideal Christmas gift, even if you’re browsing at Easter.”—Mark Millar (X MEN, KINGSMAN, MILLARWORLD)

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