Star Wars is the multimedia franchise begun with George Lucas's 1977 film A New Hope, which drew on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey mythology, Kurosawa's samurai films, and WWII aerial combat to create the defining myth of late 20th-century popular culture.
Revived mythological storytelling for modern popular culture; shaped blockbuster cinema; the Force became a pseudo-spiritual concept for secular audiences.
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