Mcfarland: 2486 books
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies
How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves...
Paper Dolls
Fragile Figures, Enduring Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity—quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected religious and political beliefs, notions of womanhood, motherhood and family, the dictates of fashion, approaches to education, individual self-image and...
Gay American Novels, 1870-1970
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works—novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem—in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works, such as James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s...
Glimpses of Phoenix
The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a “clean” city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The “real” Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a...
The Written Dead
Essays on the Literary Zombie
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
From Victor Halperin’s White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead (1968) and AMC’s hugely successful The Walking Dead (2010–), zombie mythology has become an integral part of popular culture. In a reversal of the typical pattern of adaptation, the zombie developed...
One Korea
A Proposal for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Peaceful Korean reunification would end a growing nuclear threat, ease regional and geopolitical tensions, and bring about significant economic growth and cooperation in resource-rich Northeast Asia. The central assumption of this book is that peace and reunification can be achieved by changing the...
by Anna Faktorovich
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
When three of Britain’s best-loved and best-selling authors each publish at least two novels with a historical rebellion theme, there might be an interesting pattern worth examining. This is a long overdue study of the previously overlooked rebellion novel genre, with a close look at the works of...
by Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Produced in Italy from the turn of the 20th century, “sword and sandal” or peplum films were well received in the silent era and attained great popularity in the 1960s following the release of Hercules (1959), starring Mr. Universe Steve Reeves. A global craze for Bronze Age fantasy-adventures...
Conversations with Bunuel
Interviews with the Filmmaker, Family Members, Friends and Collaborators
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and colleagues—including Salvador Dalí, Louis Aragon and Fernando Rey—conducted by Max Aub in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Notorious for inventing fanciful...
Alcohol in the Writings of Herman Melville
"The Ever-Devilish God of Grog"
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In early to mid-19th century America, there were growing debates concerning the social acceptability of alcohol and its consumption. Temperance reformers publicly decried the evils of liquor, and America’s greatest authors began to write works of temperance fiction, stories that urged Americans...
Roy Huggins
Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Producer-writer Roy Huggins is best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Run For Your Life and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell). This biography details his personal and professional life, aided by exclusive interviews with family, producers, actors...
Terror on the Air!
Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed not only in the movies, but also on the radio before television’s dominance in American homes. One of many distinct genres born of early broadcasting, terror-inspiring radio thrilled millions. Nearly 80...
by Theresa Bane
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification...
A Wider View of the Universe
Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Thoreau in his early career did not consider nature a worthy subject for his pen. Beginning with only a superficial knowledge of nature—even while living at Walden Pond—he later began to study the subject more intensely in 1849. Over the next dozen years, he applied himself especially to botany...