The Dark Side of the Force': STAR WARS and the Science Fiction Tradition

Telotte, J. P. "'The Dark Side of the Force': STAR WARS and the Science Fiction Tradition." Extrapolation 24.3 (Fall 1983): 216-26.

Essay by a major student of SF film, comments usefully on the rather complex handling of technology in the first two STAR WARS movies, and in G. Lucas's THX 1138.