Cyrus R. K. Patell is Global Network Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi and Professor of English at NYU in New York, USA. He is author of Emergent U.S. Literatures (2014) and Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination (2015) and co-editor (with Deborah Lindsay Williams) of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940.

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Introduction
1. Filmmaking and Philosophizing
2. From Lucas to Lucasfilm
3. Reversal and Recognition, Exile and Return
4. Melodrama
5. Individualism
6. Technophobia
7. Cosmopolitanism
8. Fallibilism
9. Moral Compass

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