Mcfarland: 2486 books
The West in Asia and Asia in the West
Essays on Transnational Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This collection of new essays examines the “transnational turn” in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of “Asia” and “the West” and their cultural collision....
Marks of Toil
Work and Disfigurement in Literature, Film and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Are people nothing more than their physical capital—what their bodies can produce and provide? This philosophical treatise examines the idea of mutational bodies as it has appeared in fiction and cinema since the industrial era, theorizing that capitalism and other modern collective systems require...
War Stories
A GI Reporter in Vietnam, 1970-1971
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author—“an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men”—chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles. His stories gave the Army’s version of events, sprinkled with human interest and...
The Incomparable Hildegarde
The Sexuality, Style and Image of an Entertainment Icon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
The Incomparable Hildegarde (1906–2005) began her career as a pianist in Milwaukee’s silent movie theaters, which led to the Vaudeville stage. By the 1930s, she was singing in the cabarets of Paris and London, rubbing elbows with royalty, White Russians and Josephine Baker. She then became a darling...
by Chuck Hornung
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo México. Baca was well educated and a successful businessman before beginning a 52-year career as a peace officer. Tenderhearted by nature,...
The Espionage Filmography
United States Releases, 1898 through 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
From Sean Connery to Roy Rogers, from comedy to political satire, films that include espionage as a plot device run the gamut of actors and styles. More than just “spy movies,” espionage films have evolved over the history of cinema and American culture, from stereotypical foreign spy themes,...
by Norman Berdichevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Denmark, the southernmost Nordic nation, remains little-known to many citizens of the world. Too often conflated with its Scandinavian neighbors to the north, it is a land of generally flat terrain, with an inviting temperate climate. The land of the Danes has much to offer visitors, and this guide...
The Cinema of Generation X
A Critical Study of Films and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represented more than the arrival of an important new director—it heralded the arrival of an entire generation of important new directors. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Kevin Smith (Dogma), David Fincher...
by Julie A. Sellers
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Bachata—a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s—is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata’s history and development...
The Hemingway Short Story
A Critical Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Ernest Hemingway revolutionized the American short story, establishing himself as a master of realist fiction in the tradition of Guy de Mauppasant. Yet none of Hemingway’s emulators has succeeded in duplicating his understated, minimalist style. In his Iceberg Theory of fiction, only the tip of...
Stained with the Mud of Khe Sanh
A Marine's Letters from Vietnam, 1966-1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The author describes his memoir: “It’s based on wartime letters. Upon arriving at the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp one of the first things my drill instructors told me to do was to write at least two letters home a week. I did what they told me. My father, a World War II combat veteran,...
Miyazaki's Animism Abroad
The Reception of Japanese Religious Themes by American and German Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
After winning an Oscar for Spirited Away, the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films were dubbed into many languages. Some of the films are saturated with religious themes distinctive to Japanese culture. How were these themes, or what Miyazaki describes as “animism,” received abroad,...
Urban Artscapes
Essays on Political and Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
In recent years, artists, architects, activists and curators, as well as corporations and local governments have addressed the urban space. They challenge its use and destination, and dispute current notions of space, legality, trade and artistry. Emerging art practices challenge old ideas about where...
Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City
Havens for Revivals, Indies and the Avant-Garde, 1960-1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
New York’s repertory movie houses specialized in presenting films ignored by mainstream and art house audiences. Curating vintage and undistributed movies from various countries, they educated the public about the art of film at a time when the cinema had begun to be respected as an art form. Operating...