The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highestgrossing film in the United States and George Lucass sixpart narrative has grown into something more a culture that goes far beyond the films themselves with tiein toys novels comics games and DVDs as well as an enthusiastic fan community which creates its own Star Wars fictions. Critical studies of Star Wars have treated it as a cultural phenomenon or in ter