Mcfarland: 2486 books
The Women of Hammer Horror
A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The Hammer studio is best known for its horror film output from the mid–1950s through the 1970s. This book provides facts about the hundreds of actresses who appeared in those films, including ones released in the twenty-first century by a resurgent Hammer. Each woman’s entry includes her Hammer...
Universal Horrors
The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count...
Keep Watching the Skies!
American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Bill Warren’s Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot...
Science Fiction and Futurism
Their Terms and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Science and science fiction have become inseparable—with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how...
Theda Bara
A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Despite being a mediocre actress with less than classic beauty, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood’s leading performers in the early years of cinema. Her success was mostly due to Fox Studio’s publicity: they made her a screen vamp and used her to titillate the public. And Theda Bara, ambitious and...
The Bennington School of the Dance
A History in Writings and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The story of this groundbreaking summer dance program is told through the voices of staff, faculty, and students. Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly’s previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions. The Bennington School of the Dance held classes...
Broadway Plays and Musicals
Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
New York City’s Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the...
The Columbia Comedy Shorts
Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood’s finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews...
Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up
Conversations with Directors, Actors and Writers of Vintage Action Movies and Television Shows
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This collection of interviews features American, British and Australian writers, directors and actors recounting their notable work in the action genre and the fun of blowing things up. Action movies and television series from 1950s to the mid–1980s are covered, with the main focus on the 1960s...
by David Meuel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
While John Ford (1894–1973) remains one of the most influential and revered directors in film history, he is also one of the most frequently misunderstood. One widespread assumption is that he was almost exclusively a man’s director, dismissive of, or at best not well attuned to, the stories,...
Stan Without Ollie
The Stan Laurel Solo Films, 1917-1927
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Long before his momentous teaming with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel (1890–1965) was a motion picture star in his own right. From his film debut in Nuts in May (1917) through his final solo starring effort Should Tall Men Marry? (1928), Laurel headlined dozens of short comedies for a variety...
by James L. Neibaur
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
W.C. Fields was at the top among comedians during Hollywood’s Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s and has since remained a comic icon. Despite his character’s misanthropic, child-hating, alcoholic tendencies, his performances were enduringly popular and Fields became personally defined by them....
by Roy Liebman
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name...
by David Huckvale
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Hammer Film’s is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company’s very best films. This book takes a chronological, film-by-film...