Summary
Brian Jay Jones examines George Lucas’s life and work as a filmmaker and company builder. The biography follows the creation of Star Wars and Indiana Jones alongside the businesses and tools that supported those stories, including Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. Accounts from colleagues and competitors show Lucas working with other filmmakers, performers and changing technology. Jones connects the production of films with their marketing, licensing and continued revision. This catalog record uses the Little, Brown 2017 trade paperback of a biography first published in 2016.
Why read it Our view
Use the biography to examine how creative aims connect to finance, production tools and control of a business. It offers context for Lucas’s work with collaborators and his efforts to make films on his own terms. It is a biography about Lucas, not a book he wrote or a reading recommendation from him.
Written about
- George LucasBiography subjectJones’s biography follows Lucas’s films, company building and work with collaborators. This is a book about Lucas, not his authorship or reading recommendation.Source