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Abstract
A Thousand Faces is an annotated bibliography of the last twenty-three years of scholarly criticism on the Star Wars trilogy of films created by George Lucas. The annotations represent critical work from a variety of academic journals, as well as essays from more general periodicals. A survey of the criticism reveals that Star Wars scholarship is a varied and interdisciplinary field, reflecting the ability of the film to lend itself to different readings. Star Wars, often considered pop-culture by the academic community, is a kind of cultural artifact that deserves serious critical attention for what it reveals about the culture that created it.