Mcfarland: 2486 books
On the Land of My Father
A Farm Upbringing in Segregated Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book evokes a time and place that is central to the American experience, a past to be remembered. This simple and direct narrative of family values and connections to the land is full of description. Land ownership bonded a black family to its white neighbors in segregated southern Mississippi...
Sex, Power and the Folly of Marriage in Women's Novels of the 1920s
A Critical Study of Seven American Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The Americans experienced great social change in the decade following World War I. They were restless, often discontented, searching for the good life—the one promised to the generation who, cheered on by patriotic slogans and propaganda, enlisted to fight on European battlefields. While young writers...
A Successful Novel Must Be in Want of a Sequel
Second Takes on Classics from The Scarlet Letter to Rebecca
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
What happened after Mr. Darcy married Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice? Where did Heathcliff go when he disappeared in Wuthering Heights? What social ostracism would Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter have faced in 20th century America? Great novels often leave behind great questions, and...
Nicolas Winding Refn and the Violence of Art
A Critical Study of the Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Nicolas Winding Refn has emerged as a uniquely talented international filmmaker with an eye for visceral, iconic images. A 21st century mythmaker from his cult Pusher trilogy to the award-winning Drive and Only God Forgives, Refn infuses a sophisticated avant-garde sensibility with the grit of exploitation...
The Gus Van Sant Touch
A Thematic Study--Drugstore Cowboy, Milk and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde. Examining his films thematically,...
James Ellroy
A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy’s work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown’s Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots, and provides experienced Ellroy fans and scholars...
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In 1946, years before the phrase “serial murder” was coined, a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border. Striking five times within a ten-week period, always at night, the prowler claimed six lives and left three other victims wounded. Survivors told police that...
Hemingway's Cuba
Finding the Places and People That Influenced the Writer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway spent about one-third of his life in Cuba and grew to love the country and its people. This travel narrative follows a journey across the island in search of Hemingway’s Cuba and how it influenced some of his writings. The author seeks out Hemingway’s haunts in Old Havana and...
Ponyville Confidential
The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro’s My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Critics dismissed the cartoons as toy advertisements, and derided their embrace of femininity. The 2010 debut of the openly feminist My Little Pony: Friendship...
Sixties Shockers
A Critical Filmography of Horror Cinema, 1960-1969
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from the 1960s. During those tumultuous years horror cinema flourished, proving as innovative and unpredictable as the decade itself. Representative titles include...
by Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain’s elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence’s family, especially her mother, opposed the...
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
This critical history of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks’ death. It considers Banks’ origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become...
The Transgressive Iain Banks
Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. It considers Banks as a habitual border crosser who makes things fresh and new by subversive and transgressive strategies....
by Deke Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The birth of modern fantasy in 1930s Britain and America saw the development of new literary and film genres. J.R.R. Tolkien created modern fantasy with The Lord of the Rings, set in a fictional world based upon his life in the early 20th century British Empire, and his love of language and medieval...