Mcfarland: 2486 books
The Innovative Use of Materials in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
History, Theory and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book is about materials. The fundamental properties and technical aspects are reviewed within a context of a material’s history, the theories of its meaning and making, and its use. Information about the sustainability aspects of each material is included (as a critical necessity in construction)....
by Mark S. Reinhart
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, and up through the series of Warner Bros. summer blockbusters that climaxed with Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. Chapters on each Batman...
Drawn from the Classics
Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in the past thirty years. Among its more inspired uses has been the superlative adaptation of literary classics. Unlike the comic book abridgments aimed at young readers of an earlier era, today’s graphic novel adaptations are created...
Toy Stories
The Toy as Hero in Literature, Comics and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Toys—those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children’s imaginative play—have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children...
Marvel Comics' Civil War and the Age of Terror
Critical Essays on the Comic Saga
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Marvel Comics has an established tradition of addressing relevant real-life issues facing the American public. With the publication of Civil War (2006–2007), a seven-issue crossover storyline spanning the Marvel universe, they focused on contemporary anxieties such as terrorism and threats to privacy...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Blake’s 7, Terry Nation’s science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year. Instead, it was attacked as a Star Wars rip-off and canceled after a mere 17 stories. The author acknowledges the show was full of dramatic clichés and scientific inaccuracies,...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling’s classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of...
The Law for Comic Book Creators
Essential Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Since the creation of the comic book, cases of legal conflict and confusion have often arisen where concepts such as public domain, unincorporated entities and moral rights are involved. As a result, comics creators are frequently concerned about whether they are protecting themselves. There are many...
Little Horrors
How Cinema's Evil Children Play on Our Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a child with an innocent face and a diabolical stare. Cinema’s evil children attack our cherished ideas of innocence and our innocent bystander status as...
In Cobb's Shadow
The Hall of Fame Careers of Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb cast a shadow over the game with his violent behavior on the field and off. His shadow was never darker than when it fell on his teammates. Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush were three of the greatest players in baseball...
Down from the Attic
Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pictures like Bride of the Monster and The Hideous Sun Demon. Yet some genre films have fallen through the cracks. The 24 films—some elusive, some easily...
Up from the Vault
Rare Thrillers of the 1920s and 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
A number of thrillers made in the 1920s and 1930s have become available again thanks to new technology. There are a few, however, that remain elusive to most, if not all, movie buffs. This book covers 21 thrillers from those decades that are well-regarded and eagerly sought, but difficult to find—The...
Frank Wisbar
The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
German director Frank Wisbar (1899–1967) had the misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as Hitler came to power. While critics praised his work, Nazi cultural watchdogs were scornful of his attempts to chart “the landscape of the soul” in films like Ferryman Maria (1936) and Anna...