Mcfarland: 2486 books
The Best Novels of the Nineties
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the...
The New American Poetry of Engagement
A 21st Century Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
This anthology of poetry collects 21st century American works by both established and emerging poets that deal with the public events, government policies, ecological and political threats, economic uncertainties, and large-scale violence that have largely defined the century to date. But these 138...
The Hump
The 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, in the First Major Battle of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Operation Hump, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, took place November 5–9, 1965, in South Vietnam’s War Zone D. Known as “The Hump,” it would change the nature of the war, escalating it from a hit-and-run guerrilla conflict to a bloody...
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns
Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre. In its second edition, this encyclopedia of the Weird Western includes many new entries covering film, television, animation, novels, pulp fiction, short stories, comic...
Screening Text
Critical Perspectives on Film Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation has encouraged new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film. This collection of essays covers various aspects of adaptation studies—questions of genre and myth, race and gender, readaptation, and pedagogical and practical approaches.
Intimacy in Cinema
Critical Essays on English Language Films
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined...
Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture
A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. This has followed the increased use of such characters as metaphors, with novelists and critics identifying specific meanings and topics behind them. This book aims to unravel the shapeshifting trope....
The Morals of Monster Stories
Essays on Children's Picture Book Messages
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
The simplicity of children’s picture books—stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all—makes them powerful tools for teaching morals and personal integrity. Children follow the story and see the characters’ behaviors on the page and interpret them in the context...
"Don't tell father I have been shot at"
The Civil War Letters of Captain George N. Bliss, First Rhode Island Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Captain George N. Bliss of the First Rhode Island Cavalry survived some 27 actions during the Civil War. Midway through the war, he served nine months at a conscript training camp in Connecticut, where he sat on several courts-martial. In September 1864, in a skirmish at Waynesboro, Virginia, he single-handedly...
by David A. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers infantry regiment was formed in 1861—its ranks filled by nearly 1,200 Irish and German immigrants from Schuylkill County responding to Lincoln’s call for troops. The men saw action for three years with the Army of the Potomac’s VI Corps, participating in engagements...
Teaching with Harry Potter
Essays on Classroom Wizardry from Elementary School to College
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the world are harnessing the power of the series to teach history, gender studies, chemistry, religion, philosophy, sociology, architecture, Latin, medieval...
Buffy Meets the Academy
Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same...
Joss Whedon and Religion
Essays on an Angry Atheist's Explorations of the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This is a collection of new essays on the religious themes in, and the implications of, the works of Joss Whedon, creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and more recently writer and director of the box-office hit Marvel’s The Avengers. The book addresses such topics...
Loving Vampires
Our Undead Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society’s most sensitive subjects—sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class—and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture’s vampires variously...