Scarecrow Press imprint: 1180 books
Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000
Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
In Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection: An Annotated Repertoire, Amnon Kabatchnik provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection of this period. Continuing the work of his previous volumes (1900-1925, 1925-1950,...
Programming for Adults
A Guide for Small- and Medium-Sized Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
As the mission statements of libraries across the nation change to reflect the realities of post-liberal America and its emphasis on economic values, librarians have had to pick up their long-standing paradigm and move it in an endless shuffle from knowledge stewardship, to information broker, to...
The Native American Identity in Sports
Creating and Preserving a Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded. From individual athletes,...
by Donna L. Gilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect...
Libraries and Archives
Design and Renovation with a Preservation Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1998
New in paperback! This book fills a need for a selective bibliography focusing on design that will not only house collections appropriately, but also be comfortable for readers and staff. The books and articles cited here provoke thought about new technologies and materials and will enable information...
Not Your Mother's Vampire
Vampires in Young Adult Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Examining young adult vampire fiction and how it fits in both the contemporary and classic vampire canon, the book's analysis begins with a primer on vampire scholarship, including a brief deconstruction of ten seminal vampire representations-five literary, five cinematic-and their impact on young...
Reel Women
An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken place since the early 1960s, highlighting not only a wide spectrum of female characters depicted onscreen,...
The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence...
Post-9/11 Cinema
Through a Lens Darkly
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world. Films often go beyond news reports by showing in-depth, behind-the-scenes footage, whether in a documentary or recreated in fictional features. More than fleeting scenes...
A Primer of the Novel
For Readers and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
When the first edition of David Madden's A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers was published more than twenty-five years ago, there were no other books of its kind available. Since then, many authors and editors have produced works that attempt the same comprehensive coverage of the genre....
Toward a Literary Ecology
Places and Spaces in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly...
Kubrick's 2001
A Triple Allegory
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Acclaimed in an international critics poll as one of the ten best films ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has nonetheless baffled critics and filmgoers alike. Its reputation rests largely on its awesome special effects, yet the plot has been considered unfathomable. Critical consensus...
by Juhana Lemetti
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important early modern thinkers. Though Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651) and the theory of absolute sovereignty, his works discuss virtually all the major problems of philosophy as well as science and mathematics, and contain the translations of...
The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture
Toward Bridging the Generational Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Black Church stood as the stronghold of the Black Community, fighting for equality and economic self-sufficiency and challenging its body to be self-determined and self-aware. Hip Hop Culture grew from disenfranchised urban youth who felt that they had no support...