Mcfarland: 2486 books
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Source criticism—analysis of a writer’s source material—has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers’...
The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium
Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The timely collection of essays is thematically unified around the subject of corporeality. Its theoretical underpinnings emerge out of feminist, foucauldian, patristic and queer hermeneutics. The book is organized into categories specific to transformation, spirit versus body, discourse, and source...
Richard Pryor in Hollywood
The Narrative Films, 1967-1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Hollywood studios were once eager to bring stand-up comedy king Richard Pryor’s dynamic humor to the big screen—so much so that studio executives gave him full access to available resources and creative control to develop his own projects. Unfortunately Pryor’s screen talents were far less acclaimed...
The Albanians
An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Historically described as mysterious and xenophobic, Albania and its people are little known to most westerners. But they are near the center of age-old explosive Balkan conflicts. With the employment of Albanian, French, Italian and many other documentary sources, the roots of Albanian civilization,...
by James McKay
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
With his rugged features and earthy sex appeal, Victor Mature ushered in a new breed of postwar Hollywood actor, far removed from the debonair matinee idols of the 1930s. Following success as an upbeat leading man in the early 1940s Fox musicals, opposite the likes of Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth,...
Film Stars' Television Projects
Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948-1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed...
From Radio to the Big Screen
Hollywood Films Featuring Broadcast Personalities and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
There was a time when “American popular entertainment” referred only to radio and motion pictures. With the coming of talking pictures, Hollywood cashed in on the success of big-time network radio by bringing several of the public’s favorite broadcast personalities and programs to the screen....
Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions
A History of All Series and Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
The face of 1980s television was shaped by a man who stayed behind the scenes. Stephen Cannell’s reluctant white knights—put-upon private eye James Rockford, World War II fly-boys the Black Sheep Squadron, hapless superhero Ralph Hinckley, fugitive mercenaries the A-Team, and maverick cop Hunter—traversed...
Errol Flynn
The Life and Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Errol Flynn set the standard for the modern action hero in films like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodge City, and The Sea Hawk. This biography follows Flynn from his birth in Tasmania, Australia, in 1909, to his death in Vancouver, Canada, in 1959. Included is analysis of his films, discussion of...
The Film Crew of Hollywood
Profiles of Grips, Cinematographers, Designers, a Gaffer, a Stuntman and a Makeup Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
These in-depth profiles illuminate the careers of ten motion picture crew members who worked during Hollywood’s Independent Age of film and television production—basically from 1945 to 1980. A celebratory insiders’ look at the Tinseltown machine, the book utilizes individual interviews and rare...
Why The Monkees Matter
Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966–1968) earned two Emmys—Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. Capitalizing on the show’s success, the actual band formed by the actors, at their peak, sold more albums than The Beatles...
Theda Bara, My Mentor
Under the Wing of Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
As movie patrons sat in darkened theaters in January 1914, they were mesmerized by an alluring temptress with long sable hair and kohl-rimmed eyes. Theda Bara—“the vamp,” as she would come to be known—would soon be one of the highest paid film stars of the 1910s, earning an unheard of $4,000...
by Scott Allen Nollen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1922. Twice escaping and on the lam for decades, he was aided only by his minister-poet brother, Vincent G. Burns. Their collaborative work, I Am a Fugitive...
Bad Boys
The Actors of Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The film noir male is an infinitely watchable being, exhibiting a wide range of emotions, behaviors, and motivations. Some of the characters from the film noir era are extremely violent, such as Neville Brand’s Chester in D.O.A. (1950), whose sole pleasure in life seems to come from inflicting pain...