George Lucas: The Creative Impulse : Lucasfilm's First Twenty-five Years

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Virgin, 1997 - Motion picture producers and directors - 232 pages
Over the past 25 years George Lucas has been responsible for some of the most successful films made, for example Indiana Jones and Star Wars. In recognition of his abilities, he was awarded the Irving Thalberg Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts in 1992. This book aims to examine and illustrate all the films Lucas has made, and all of the other projects he has been involved in. It looks at Industrial Light and Magic, his special effects company responsible for such films as ET and Terminator II, Lucasfilm and LucasArts, two companies funded by profits from his work, which are dedicated to technical advances in projects as diverse as sound-editing and theme park rides. Behind-the-scenes photographs are also included.

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Contents

Foreword by Steven Spielberg
6
Introduction 8
164
The Skywalker Ranch
185
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

Charles Davenport Champlin was born in Bath, New York on March 23, 1926. During World War II, he joined the Army and saw combat in Germany, where he was injured by a German mortar shell. He received a degree in English from Harvard University in 1948. He worked for Life magazine and for Time magazine before becoming the entertainment editor of The Los Angeles Times in 1965. He was the lead movie critic for The Los Angeles Times from 1967 until 1980 and reviewed books thereafter. He also wrote a column entitled Critic at Large. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood, Hollywood's Revolutionary Decade: Charles Champlin Reviews the Movies of the 1970s, A Life in Writing: The Story of an American Journalist, and My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer Struggles with Macular Degeneration. He died on November 16, 2014 at the age of 88.

Bibliographic information

TitleGeorge Lucas: The Creative Impulse : Lucasfilm's First Twenty-five Years
AuthorCharles Champlin
Edition2, illustrated, revised
PublisherVirgin, 1997
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedMay 13, 2010
ISBN1852277211, 9781852277215
Length232 pages
  
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