Mcfarland: 2486 books
Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film
A Critical Study of the Adaptations, 1924-2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
A comprehensive guide to all major film adaptations based on the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this is essential for scholars of American modernism and film studies. The author takes the approach that all visual and printed literature is born from a cycle of celebrity culture,...
by J.W. Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May. He became a Broadway directing sensation, then moved on to Hollywood, where his first two films—Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Graduate (1967)—earned...
Freedom Narratives of African American Women
A Study of 19th Century Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women’s literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the...
Outlander's Sassenachs
Essays on Gender, Race, Orientation and the Other in the Novels and Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A time travel epic featuring history and romance, Outlander—unlike most adventure series—is aimed at women audiences. The kilted male characters, the female narrator, the fantastic period costumes are atypical of male-gendered television. Both the show and the novels on which it is based address...
Michael Moorcock
Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melniboné is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central...
Alice in Transmedia Wonderland
Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Part of Alice’s appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll’s classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th...
Star-Begotten
A Life Lived in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923–) has been called “the last Golden Age author” of science fiction. In a career of almost 70 years, he has written 28 books and dozens of short stories and participated in the production of films, radio and television programs and comic books.
The Heritage of Heinlein
A Critical Reading of the Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Robert A. Heinlein is generally recognized as the most important American science fiction writer of the 20th century. This is the first detailed critical examination of his entire career. It is not a biography—that is being done in a two-volume work by William Patterson. Instead, this book looks...
Grimm Pictures
Fairy Tale Archetypes in Eight Horror and Suspense Films
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Though Grimm’s Fairy Tales was published about 200 years ago, the revered collection of folk stories remains one of the most iconic pieces of children’s literature and has had significant influence in modern pop culture. This work examines the many ways that recent films have employed archetypal...
A Quest of Her Own
Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This collection of new essays seeks to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s through the present. Building upon traditional definitions of the hero in myth and folklore as the root genres of modern fantasy, the essays...
The Ages of the Incredible Hulk
Essays on the Green Goliath in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The Incredible Hulk is one of the earliest Marvel Comics superheroes. Through the decades, the character and his narrative elements—the causes of Bruce Banner’s transformations, the Hulk’s strength, intelligence and skin color, the stories’ tone, theme and sources of conflict—have been continually...
The Ages of Superman
Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has changed with the times to remain a relevant icon of American popular culture. This collection explores the evolution of the Superman character and demonstrates how his alterations mirror historical changes in...
The Ages of the X-Men
Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and one of the most intriguing for critical analysis. With storylines that often contain overt social messages within its “mutant metaphor,” X-Men is often credited with having more depth than the average superhero property....
The Ages of Iron Man
Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Billionaire industrialist, cold warrior, weapons designer, alcoholic, philanthropist, Avenger—Tony Stark, alter-ego of Marvel Comics’ Iron Man, has played many roles in his five decades as a superhero. From his 1963 comics debut in Tales of Suspense to the recent film adaptations—The Avengers...