Watching Skies: Star Wars, Spielberg and Us

Auteur

Mark O'Connell is a writer and the author of Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan (Splendid Books, 2012). The book was shortlisted for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize, and has led to him becoming a pop culture pundit for many media outlets across the globe.

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This British-skewed look at coming of age against a backdrop of the iconic big-screen science fiction of the eighties elaborates on the nostalgia boom represented by the popularity for instance of "Stranger Things", coloured by retrospect and the personal experiences of author Mark O'Connell.

Résumé
A unique and timely memoir, full of '80s nostalgia, that explores the golden age of Hollywood cinema