Mcfarland: 2486 books
Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
During the “Must See TV” 1990s, Americans enjoyed such immensely popular sitcoms as Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show. Shows that did not make the ratings cut numbered in the hundreds—the emergence of new networks and cable channels airing original programming resulted...
Dictionary of Pseudonyms
13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Substantially revised and enlarged, this new edition of the Dictionary of Pseudonyms includes more than 2,000 new entries, bringing the volume's total to approximately 13,000 assumed names, nicknames, stage names, and aliases. The introduction has been entirely rewritten, and many previous entries...
Bluegrass in Baltimore
The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary mountain musicians and was for a brief time the center of the bluegrass world. Life in Baltimore for these musicians was not easy. There were missed opportunities,...
The Creation of the Cowboy Hero
Fiction, Film and Fact
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by...
Historic Hiking Trails
A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Approximately 900 hiking trails in the United States take hikers along routes or past sites of historical importance and offer commemorative embroidered patches or other souvenirs of the outing. These trails allow hikers to gain a new appreciation for history and actually experience it, instead of...
The Klondike Stampede
As It Appeared to One of the Thousands of Cheechacos Who Participated in the Mad Rush of 1898-1899
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898–1899. But it was also a grand adventure. Few got rich but those who survived had a tale to tell. Wallis R. Sanborn’s entertaining narrative of his journey from Illinois to the Yukon provides rare insight into the...
Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League
Staging Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Early 20th century non-commercial theaters emerged as hubs of social transformation on both sides of the Atlantic. The 1904–1907 seasons at London’s Royal Court Theatre were a particularly galvanizing force, with 11 plays by Bernard Shaw—along with works by Granville Barker, John Galsworthy...
by Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments—enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession—the...
Riccardo Freda
The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909–1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the peplum Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and a...
Gene Hackman
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Gene Hackman (b. 1930) has been described as the best actor of his generation. During almost half a century as an American film, television and stage actor, film producer and author, he was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor for The French Connection (1971) and the Best Supporting...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years...
by Roberto Curti
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
A self-taught culinary virtuoso, Francesco Bracali is one of Italy’s top chefs. He and his brother, Luca, a sommelier, own the two-Michelin-stars restaurant Bracali in Massa Marittima, Tuscany. Once an unpretentious tavern run by their parents, the brothers turned it into a fine dining place where...
by Roberto Curti
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing. Horror films proved commercially successful in the first...
Vending Machines
An American Social History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero—a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century...