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Self and Its Pleasure: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
Carolyn J. Dean
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• Author(s): Carolyn J. Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PersonalityWhy did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, know...
View full detailsA Soldier Gone to Sea: Memoir of a Royal Marine in Both World Wars
Charles Frederic Jerram
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• Author(s): Charles Frederic Jerram • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.F. Jerram (1882-1969) of the Royal Marines recount...
View full detailsCity Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage
Maria Kromidas
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• Author(s): Maria Kromidas • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesCosmopolitanism--the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity--is often associated with adult ...
View full detailsBalkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
Mary C. Neuburger
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• Author(s): Mary C. Neuburger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis fascinating book explores the history of tobacco and tobacco culture in Bulgaria from the mid...
View full detailsHemingway's Cuba: Finding the Places and People That Influenced the Writer
Dennis L. Noble
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• Author(s): Dennis L. Noble • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Ernest Hemingway spent about one-third of his life in Cuba and grew to love the country and its people. Thi...
View full detailsCaptains Courageous: with all 21original illustrations by I. W. Taber
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Aziloth Books • Publisher Imprint: Aziloth Books • BISAC: Action & AdventureBorn in India, Rudyard Kipling is renowned for his varied exciting tales of the sub-continent. Less well-known is the Nobel ...
View full detailsThe Crown's Dog
Elise Kova
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• Author(s): Elise Kova • Publisher: Silver Wing Press • Publisher Imprint: Silver Wing Press • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicThree friends went in search of long-lost treasure. What they found was a murder.In a forgotten corner of the Solaris castle, Jax...
View full detailsThe Crown's Dog
Elise Kova
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• Author(s): Elise Kova • Publisher: Silver Wing Press • Publisher Imprint: Silver Wing Press • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicThree friends went in search of long-lost treasure. What they found was a murder.In a forgotten corner of the Solaris castle, Jax...
View full detailsThe Rhodesian Air Force in Zimbabwe's War of Liberation, 1966-1980
Darlington Mutanda
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• Author(s): Darlington Mutanda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - General This book evaluates the development of the Rhodesian Air Force during the Second Chimurenga ...
View full detailsFrick*: Baseball's Third Commissioner
John P. Carvalho
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• Author(s): John P. Carvalho • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "asterisk" next to Roger Maris's record....
View full detailsAdam's Journal
E. C. Flickinger
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• Author(s): E. C. Flickinger • Publisher: Grackle • Publisher Imprint: Grackle • BISAC: Coming of AgeAdam eventually finds love, but in a twist of fate, he must find a way to win her back. Sometimes you just have to wait for the thing you want m...
View full detailsBill Hartack: The Bittersweet Life of a Hall of Fame Jockey
Bill Christine
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• Author(s): Bill Christine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate every moment. "If only Bill could have gotten along ...
View full detailsBattling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954
Mark Allen Baker
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• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Oscar "Battling" Nelson (1882-1954) was perhaps the toughest professional boxer ever to enter the ring. Although a Hal...
View full detailsMurder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall
Curtis Evans
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• Author(s): Curtis Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--...
View full detailsPower of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
Egle Rindzevičiūte
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• Author(s): Egle Rindzevičiūte • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralIn The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzevičiūte introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of ...
View full detailsCounterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin Since 1989
Daniela Sandler
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• Author(s): Daniela Sandler • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningIn Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote u...
View full detailsThe Evolving Healthcare Landscape: How Employees, Organizations, and Institutions Are Adapting and Innovating
Ariel C. Avgar, Timothy J. Vogus
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• Author(s): Ariel C. Avgar | Timothy J. Vogus • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Health PolicyAcross the globe healthcare systems face the extremely comp...
View full detailsThe Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer
Jon Agar
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• Author(s): Jon Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the me...
View full detailsBrian Donlevy, the Good Bad Guy: A Bio-Filmography
Derek Sculthorpe
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• Author(s): Derek Sculthorpe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Brian Donlevy (1901-1972) was an underrated film actor with surprising range an...
View full detailsTwenty Writing Assignments in Context: An Instructor's Resource for the Composition Classroom
Melissa Bender, Karma Waltonen
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• Author(s): Melissa Bender | Karma Waltonen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Twenty original, classroom-tested assignments: This innovative collection of college writing assignmen...
View full detailsA-Level Chemistry Flash Notes AQA Year 1 & AS: Condensed Revision Notes - Designed to Facilitate Memorisation
C. Boes
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• Author(s): C. Boes • Publisher: Dr. C. Boes • Publisher Imprint: Dr. C. Boes • BISAC: School & EducationTired of writing your own revision notes? Unsure what to put in and what to leave out? Use professional ones!These condensed revision no...
View full detailsNew Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924
Thomas Mackaman
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• Author(s): Thomas Mackaman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dan...
View full detailsTowards Sherlock Holmes: A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World
Stephen Knight
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• Author(s): Stephen Knight • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Crime fiction--a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century--features specialists...
View full detailsNow and Then We Time Travel: Visiting Pasts and Futures in Film and Television
Fraser A. Sherman
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• Author(s): Fraser A. Sherman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting...
View full detailsPhilip Seymour Hoffman: The Life and Work
Peter Shelley
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• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film pr...
View full detailsThe British Heroic Age: A History, 367-664
Flint F. Johnson
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• Author(s): Flint F. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Drawing on historical documents, legends, archeology and literature, this history describes the disintegrat...
View full detailsSoap Opera Super Couples: The Great Romances of Daytime Drama
Henrietta Roos
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• Author(s): Henrietta Roos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism A television genre best known for romantic storytelling, daytime soap operas have for deca...
View full detailsThe Silent Appalachian: Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television
Vicki Sigmon Collins
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• Author(s): Vicki Sigmon Collins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordl...
View full detailsDimensions of Madeleine L'Engle: New Critical Approaches
Suzanne Bray
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• Author(s): Suzanne Bray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) had...
View full detailsPsychological Consequences of the American Civil War
R. Gregory Lande
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• Author(s): R. Gregory Lande • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The conclusion of America's Civil War set off an ongoing struggle as a fractured...
View full detailsNursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Patricia D'Antonio
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• Author(s): Patricia D'Antonio • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Public HealthMandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative ...
View full detailsLove's Wounds: Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe
Cynthia N. Nazarian
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• Author(s): Cynthia N. Nazarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RenaissanceLove's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern Eur...
View full detailsTrustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility
Rob Corcoran, Tim Kaine
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• Author(s): Rob Corcoran | Tim Kaine • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Discrimination"Trustbuilding, using personal narrative and exhaustive reporting by Rob Corcoran, chronicle...
View full detailsFictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature
Elizabeth S. Anker
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• Author(s): Elizabeth S. Anker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asian - IndicOver the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postco...
View full detailsThe True Significance of Sacred Tradition and Its Great Worth, by St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny: A Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Response to Roman Catholic a
St Raphael M. Hawaweeny, Patrick Demetrios Viscuso, Patrick Demetrios Viscuso
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• Author(s): St Raphael M. Hawaweeny | Patrick Demetrios Viscuso | Patrick Demetrios Viscuso • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxNever before publ...
View full detailsThe Technocratic Antarctic
Jessica O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Jessica O'Reilly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralThe Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work o...
View full detailsThe Prince's Rogue
Elise Kova
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• Author(s): Elise Kova • Publisher: Silver Wing Press • Publisher Imprint: Silver Wing Press • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicShe thinks he's a stuck-up prince. He thinks she's the most incredible woman he's ever laid eyes on.Prince Baldair Solaris is on ...
View full detailsRedefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
Jane H. Yamashiro
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• Author(s): Jane H. Yamashiro • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American StudiesThere is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigra...
View full detailsRelics of the Franklin Expedition: Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845
Garth Walpole
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• Author(s): Garth Walpole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - General Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vesse...
View full detailsLibrary Service to Tweens
Melanie A. Lyttle, Shawn D. Walsh
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• Author(s): Melanie A. Lyttle | Shawn D. Walsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General This comprehensive guide to tween library services begins with ...
View full detailsTarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture
David Lemmo
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• Author(s): David Lemmo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere...
View full detailsThe Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish: Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland
Maeve Brigid Callan
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• Author(s): Maeve Brigid Callan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - IrelandEarly medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars," due to the distinctive devoti...
View full detailsHomeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination
Laura S. Brown
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• Author(s): Laura S. Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceIn eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with t...
View full detailsWho Owns America's Past?: The Smithsonian and the Problem of History /]crobert C. Post
Robert C. Post
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• Author(s): Robert C. Post • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Museum StudiesCombining information from hitherto-untapped archival sources, extensive interviews, a thorough rev...
View full detailsKilling Others: A Natural History of Ethnic Violence
Matthew Lange
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• Author(s): Matthew Lange • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Violence in SocietyIn Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic co...
View full detailsThe Residue of Dreams: Selected Poems of Jao Tsung-I
Nicholas Morrow Williams, Nicholas Morrow Williams
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• Author(s): Nicholas Morrow Williams | Nicholas Morrow Williams • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe Residue of Dreams is the fi...
View full detailsAcademic Librarianship Today
Todd Gilman, Beverly P. Lynch
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• Author(s): Todd Gilman | Beverly P. Lynch • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Administration & ManagementAcademic Librariansh...
View full detailsStuart's Tarheels: James B. Gordon and His North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War, 2d ed.
Chris J. Hartley
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• Author(s): Chris J. Hartley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) When Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart said "North Carolina has done nobly...
View full detailsEveryday Law in Russia
Kathryn Hendley
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• Author(s): Kathryn Hendley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeEveryday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians can...
View full detailsThe First Few Minutes of Spanish Language Films: Early Cues Reveal the Essence
Richard K. Curry
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• Author(s): Richard K. Curry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The first few minutes of a film orient the viewer, offering cues for a richer, more nuanced re...
View full detailsMechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
Karin Bijsterveld
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• Author(s): Karin Bijsterveld • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryTracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to...
View full detailsYellow Fever: A Worldwide History
S. L. Kotar, J. E. Gessler
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• Author(s): S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War a...
View full detailsVietnam War River Patrol: A U.S. Gunboat Captain Returns to the Mekong Delta
Richard H. Kirshen
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• Author(s): Richard H. Kirshen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and certified U.S. Navy diver in the Mekong Delta, the author was responsible for...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Hockey: Four Decades of the Game on Screen
Iri Cermak
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• Author(s): Iri Cermak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Ice hockey has featured in North American films since the early days. Hockey's sizable cinematic rep...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2016
Graley Herren
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• Author(s): Graley Herren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collecti...
View full detailsThe Hippies: A 1960s History
John Anthony Moretta
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• Author(s): John Anthony Moretta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reachin...
View full detailsVampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between
Gary A. Smith
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• Author(s): Gary A. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always...
View full detailsBroadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015
Roy Liebman
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• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century sta...
View full detailsCut Loose
Lucy Chesser
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• Author(s): Lucy Chesser • Publisher: Ginninderra Press • Publisher Imprint: Ginninderra Press • BISAC: GeneralEthan is 14 and running wild. This is Sumatra, Indonesia. Land of jungles and volcanoes. And heart-stopping traffic and cheap beer and...
View full detailsThe Post-9/11 Video Game: A Critical Examination
Marc A. Ouellette, Jason C. Thompson
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• Author(s): Marc A. Ouellette | Jason C. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies This critical study of video games since 9/11 shows how a distinct genre emerged following...
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