Watching Skies: Star Wars, Spielberg and Us

by Mark O'Connell and Mark O'Connell

Book Overview

As Ready Player One and Stranger Things prove the retro might of VHS era cinema, Watching Skies: Star Wars, Spielberg and Us is 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 the Star Wars toy commercials. Jaws , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , E.T. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750970197
• ISBN13: 9780750970198
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"