Sexual Assault and Consolidation of Power at the Threshold of The Last Jedi (#StudyingStarWars)

Reading between the Lightsabers: Star Wars & Poetry (#StudyingStarWars)

Leitmotifs & Laser Beams: Aesthetic Progression in Star Wars (#StudyingStarWars)

#StudyingStarWars Day 1

Science of Star Wars

From lightsabers to TIE fighters, here are 5 ways Star Wars has been…

EA — A bunch of no good, scruffy looking, nerf herders #studyingstarwars

Battlefront II, the newest video-game of the Star Wars franchise, has been in under a media spotlight since its release on November 17th. The highly anticipated sequel to 2014’s Star Wars Battlefront hit a…

#StudyingStarWars Day 2

#StudyingStarWars Day 3

Professor Matranga’s #StudyingStarWars class met for the third time this week at the University of Denver, focusing…

War on the Way? Star Wars Premieres This Friday

With the upcoming premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi this coming Friday many theaters have opted to not show the new Star Wars film in their theaters. Increasing demands by Disney may leave smaller theaters unable to justify the cost of showing…

#studyingstarwars Wednesday Blog

Today in class we watched George Lucus’s first film THX 1138, which was about a dystopian society. There were a lot of similarities to Star Wars that I recognized right off the bat. The first similarity was that all the people wore white uniforms like the Stormtroopers. I…