The Art of Star Wars: Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back

by Deborah Call, Valerie Hoffman, Vic Bulluck, et al.

Book Overview

THE ART OF STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK is a magnificent, full-color celebration of the amazing artistic and technical accomplishments in the second chapter of the most spectacular space epic of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345410882
• ISBN13: 9780345410887
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

This one is by far my favorite of the "Art of" series

The paintings of cloud city and the Probe droid are among my all time favorie McQuarrie works. There are great concept pics. And with Empire as the general concensus for "favorite movie" it stands to reason this would be among folks favorite art collections.

The best of the original "art-of" series

Of the three original Art-of Star Wars books, this is the best, for it does not include the screenplay that the other two do, and instead has useful information about the production of the film instead. The only drawback is that many of the illustrations run across the center of the page, where the binding obscures a portion of the image, but this is fairly common in softcover of this type. Recommended for fans and serious film buffs alike.

the best of the original trilogy

This book is FAR superior to the other two "Art of" books in the original trilogy because it is actually an "Art of" book and NOT an illustrated screenplay. By publishing the script elsewhere (in numerous publications - the best being "The Empire Strikes Back Notebook" which had the script, commentary from Kasdan and Kershner, and tons of storyboard panels - try to get a copy), Lucasfilm wisely left room for the artwork and its accompanying explanatory text. The other two books, while providing plenty of fantastic eye candy, unfortunately tell you nothing about the artwork. It is a good sign that for Episode I, Lucasfilm has chosen to go with and improve upon the editorial model set by the "Art of Empire" book.

Still worth it even if the entire script isnt there...

I don't think it matters much in this book whether the script is there, because it still has tons of great drawings, etc. that will be very interesting to a Star Wars fan. Besides the lack of script will be a nice excuse to buy the Anotated Screenplays, which is also VERY interesting.