Mcfarland: 2486 books
How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a “Zombie Renaissance,” beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. Zombies have become allegorical figures embodying cultural anxieties, but they also serve...
I Am Legend as American Myth
Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fiction films, including The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007). The compelling narrative of the last man on earth, struggling to survive a pandemic that has transformed...
Unraveling Resident Evil
Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Resident Evil is a multidimensional as well as multimedia universe: Various books, graphic novels, games and movies (the fifth one came out in 2012) all contribute to this enormous universe. The new essays written for this volume focus on this particular zombie manifestation and its significance in...
The Spark of Fear
Technology, Society and the Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The horror genre is continually being reinvented as societal fears evolve. As technology has developed and become ubiquitous in modern life, horror films have effectively played upon our increasing reliance on technology as a source of anxiety. Focusing on advancements from the advent of electricity...
Dharma of the Dead
Zombies, Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This book argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what...
Adoring Outlander
Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
What is behind Outlander fever—the hit television drama’s popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon’s teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show’s biggest draws...
Television Western Players, 1960-1975
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This biographical encyclopedia covers every actor and actress who had a regular role in a Western series on American television from 1960 through 1975, with analyses of key players. The entries provide birth and death dates, family information, and accounts of each player’s career, with a cross-referenced...
The Science Fiction Reboot
Canon, Innovation and Fandom in Refashioned Franchises
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This analysis examines several recent reimagined science fiction franchises (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, V, and Star Wars) in order to capture how “reboots” work from a fan perspective. Previous encounters with these stories make the reboot experience distinct for fan-viewers, who bring with...
Perilous Escapades
Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Adventure fiction is one of the easiest narrative forms to recognize but one of the hardest to define because of its overlap with many other genres. This collection of essays attempts to characterize adventure fiction through the exploration of key elements—such as larger-than-life characters and...
Exploring Space: 1999
An Episode Guide and Complete History of the Mid-1970s Science Fiction Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Starring internationally renowned actors Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse and Catherine Schell, the British–made Space: 1999 was the only truly original space adventure of the mid–1970s. Sandwiched between the demise of the original Star Trek and the opening of the Stars Wars series on...
by Sue Parrill, William B. Robison
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain’s Tudor dynasty (1485–1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers. Since the birth of movie-making technology, the lives and times of kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward VI and queens Mary I, Jane Grey and Elizabeth...
Women in Doctor Who
Damsels, Feminists and Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Over the past half-century Doctor Who has defined science fiction television. The women in the series—from orphans and heroic mothers to seductresses and clever teachers—flourish in their roles yet rarely surmount them. Some companions rescue the Doctor and charm viewers with their technical brilliance,...
Calling Dr. Strangelove
The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most celebrated and significant films ever made. This book traces the movie’s origins as a thriller novel through its evolution into a devastating black comedy, to its ultimate reception as an...
Mabel Normand
The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
American silent film star Mabel Normand (1892–1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposite the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle during the 1910s and 1920s, before dying of tuberculosis at age 37. Her brief but remarkable career, which included director and writer credits as well...