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A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
Nancy E. Green, Christopher Reed
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• Author(s): Nancy E. Green | Christopher Reed • Publisher: H. F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell Universit • Publisher Imprint: H. F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell Universit • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralAlthough of another ...
View full detailsWomen Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research
Martha K. Huggins, Marie-Louise Glebbeek
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• Author(s): Martha K. Huggins | Marie-Louise Glebbeek • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ResearchIn a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative f...
View full detailsHuman Tradition in Imperial Russia
Christine D. Worobec
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• Author(s): Christine D. Worobec • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionSweeping across more than two centuries, this compelling book...
View full detailsNations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States
Susan Bibler Coutin
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• Author(s): Susan Bibler Coutin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe violence and economic devastation of the 1980-1992 civil war in El Salvador drov...
View full detailsThe Fearless Harry Greb: Biography of a Tragic Hero of Boxing
Bill Paxton
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• Author(s): Bill Paxton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports The legendary Harry Greb stepped into the ring more than 300 times from 1913 to 1926, defeated opponents who outweighed him...
View full details250 Years in Fauquier County: A Virginia Story
Kathi A. Brown, Walter Nicklin, John Toler
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• Author(s): Kathi A. Brown | Walter Nicklin | John Toler • Publisher: George Mason University • Publisher Imprint: George Mason University • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarBeginning with the early interactions between Native Americans a...
View full detailsGoing, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964
Jason Aronoff
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• Author(s): Jason Aronoff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - GeneralThough Willie Mays' World Series catch of Vic Wertz's long drive in 1954 immediately comes to mind, there are ...
View full detailsThe Rise of Western Journalism, 1815-1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States
Ross F. Collins, E. M. Palmegiano
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• Author(s): Ross F. Collins | E. M. Palmegiano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism This compilation of essays examines the rise of Western journalism in the 19th and early 20th ce...
View full detailsCalculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats
Daryl G. Press
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• Author(s): Daryl G. Press • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralCalculating Credibility examines--and ultimately rejects--a fundamental belief held by laypeople a...
View full detailsCapitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China
Kellee S. Tsai
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• Author(s): Kellee S. Tsai • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyOver the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private busine...
View full detailsThe Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969
William J. Ryczek
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• Author(s): William J. Ryczek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book traces the history of the New York Mets from the franchise's inauspicious beginnings--the 1962 ...
View full detailsGlobal Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns
Kate Bronfenbrenner
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• Author(s): Kate Bronfenbrenner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralTo meet the challenges of globalization, unions must improve their understanding of the changing nature of c...
View full detailsThe Confession of a Child of the Century
Alfred de Musset, Kendall Warren
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• Author(s): Alfred de Musset | Kendall Warren • Publisher: Norilana Books • Publisher Imprint: Norilana Books • BISAC: ClassicsThe Confession of a Child of The Century (1836) by Alfred de Musset is the story of Octave, a young man of means, "tak...
View full detailsReligious Ideology in American Politics: A History
Nicole Guétin
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• Author(s): Nicole Guétin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The connections between religion and political discourse in the arena of American politics are profound and longstanding...
View full detailsThe Confession of a Child of the Century
Alfred de Musset, Kendall Warren
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• Author(s): Alfred de Musset | Kendall Warren • Publisher: Norilana Books • Publisher Imprint: Norilana Books • BISAC: ClassicsThe Confession of a Child of The Century (1836) by Alfred de Musset is the story of Octave, a young man of means, "tak...
View full detailsX-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography: A Speculative Memoir of the Kinks and the Death of the Sixties
Ray Davies
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• Author(s): Ray Davies • Publisher: Abrams Press • Publisher Imprint: Abrams Press • BISAC: MusicA work of high-concept genius--the most original rock memoir ever written.Sir Ray Davies--the mastermind behind The Kinks and the poet laureate of B...
View full detailsThe 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War
Michael Schellhammer
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• Author(s): Michael Schellhammer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry suffered the second highest number of battle ...
View full detailsThe Cinematic Jane Austen: Essays on the Filmic Sensibility of the Novels
David Monaghan, Ariane Hudelet, John Wiltshire
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• Author(s): David Monaghan | Ariane Hudelet | John Wiltshire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Jane Austen's novels are loved because they possess a comedic power that is of...
View full detailsSerial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography with an Introduction
Robert Cettl
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• Author(s): Robert Cettl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The release of Silence of the Lambs in 1991, which swept the major Academy Awards categories, legi...
View full detailsNorthanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Classics"Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her warm wine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to dream of him when there, cannot be asc...
View full detailsThe Bibliography of Appalachia: More Than 4,700 Books, Articles, Monographs and Dissertations, Topically Arranged and Indexed
John R. Burch
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• Author(s): John R. Burch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The Appalachian Mountains are home to many myths and stereotypes, but they are also the focus of intense...
View full detailsWomen Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders
Cary O'Dell
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• Author(s): Cary O'Dell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Nearly everyone is familiar with Lucille Ball's work on screen, but few realize her influence behind the scenes. Fewer s...
View full detailsThe Serf, the Knight, and the Historian
Dominique Barthélemy, Graham Robert Edwards
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• Author(s): Dominique Barthélemy | Graham Robert Edwards • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Historiography"The term 'feudal society' is a caricature. It was invented by nineteenth-century...
View full detailsEaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre: The Films of Tobe Hooper
John Kenneth Muir
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• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production The sound of chainsaws revving on "haunted" Halloween trails has evoked untold screams sin...
View full details"From Beautiful Downtown Burbank": A Critical History of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, 1968-1973
Hal Erickson
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• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was one of the most unusual programs on television, defying defi...
View full detailsThe Wbt Briarhoppers: Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio
Tom Warlick, Lucy Warlick
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• Author(s): Tom Warlick | Lucy Warlick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General In 1934, WBT radio announcer Charles Crutchfield formed a spur-of-the-moment musical group to satis...
View full detailsThe Nature of Love, Volume 1: Plato to Luther
Irving Singer
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• Author(s): Irving Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers tha...
View full detailsParticipatory IT Design: Designing for Business and Workplace Realities
Keld Bodker, Finn Kensing, Jesper Simonsen
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• Author(s): Keld Bodker | Finn Kensing | Jesper Simonsen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyA state-of-the-art method for introducing new information technology systems into an organization, illu...
View full detailsRefugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935a 1945
Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, Severin Hochberg
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• Author(s): Richard Breitman | Barbara McDonald Stewart | Severin Hochberg • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: PoliticalNew evidence presented in Refugees and Rescue challenges...
View full detailsThe Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution
John Shovlin
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• Author(s): John Shovlin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FrancePolitical economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revoluti...
View full detailsBear Flag and Bay State in the Civil War: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry
Thomas E. Parson
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• Author(s): Thomas E. Parson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Second Massachusetts Cavalry included the only organized group (5 companies ...
View full detailsWhat American Women Did, 1789-1920: A Year-by-Year Reference
Linda Miles Coppens
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• Author(s): Linda Miles Coppens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This reference book chronicles what American women did from the emergence of the republic through ...
View full detailsLectures on Calvinism
Abraham Kuyper
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• Author(s): Abraham Kuyper • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Christianity - CalvinistThis series of lectures was delivered by Abraham Kuyper at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1898. Over the course ...
View full detailsThe Modern Greek Resources Project: Libraries, Collections, and Databases
Maria Georgopoulou
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• Author(s): Maria Georgopoulou • Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen • Publisher Imprint: American School of Classical Studies at Athen • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralGreek bibliographic resources have g...
View full detailsWhat Shall We Do with the Negro?: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America
Paul D. Escott
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• Author(s): Paul D. Escott • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly aske...
View full detailsPath of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush
III McGuinness Aims
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• Author(s): III McGuinness Aims • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyMost people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migr...
View full detailsFinding the Money: The Complete Guide to Financial Aid for Students, Actors, Musicians and Artists
Preethi Burkholder
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• Author(s): Preethi Burkholder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Financial Aid This is a one-stop resource for people who want to finance their education or career. Classic, indispensable ...
View full detailsThe 1904 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Bill Mallon
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• Author(s): Bill Mallon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for ...
View full detailsChildren Bound to Labor
Ruth Wallis Herndon, John E. Murray
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• Author(s): Ruth Wallis Herndon | John E. Murray • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree l...
View full detailsGlobalization and Human Security
Paul Battersby, Joseph M. Siracusa
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• Author(s): Paul Battersby | Joseph M. Siracusa • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GlobalizationThis concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed in...
View full detailsNetworked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance
Miles Kahler
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• Author(s): Miles Kahler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: NegotiatingThe concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a grow...
View full detailsThe Irish in Baseball: An Early History
David L. Fleitz
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• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wa...
View full detailsWar Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment: Essays on Visual Media and the Representation of Conflict
Rikke Schubart, Fabian Virchow, Debra White-Stanley
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• Author(s): Rikke Schubart | Fabian Virchow | Debra White-Stanley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narr...
View full detailsSilent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle: A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables
Eric L. Flom
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• Author(s): Eric L. Flom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Before they became household names, many would-be Hollywood stars began their careers as small-...
View full detailsNetworked Politics
Miles Kahler
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• Author(s): Miles Kahler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: NegotiatingThe concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a grow...
View full detailsSam Rice: A Biography of the Washington Senators Hall of Famer
Jeff Carroll
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• Author(s): Jeff Carroll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the history of sports, few comeback stories compare to that of Edgar Charles Rice better known as "Sam." Aw...
View full detailsHospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference to 39 United States Military Vessels
Emory A. Massman
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• Author(s): Emory A. Massman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Naval The first U.S. hospital ship of World War II saw service in mid-1943. By war's end, the fleet had carried ne...
View full detailsPolitics and the American Television Comedy: A Critical Survey from I Love Lucy Through South Park
Doyle Greene
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• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis...
View full detailsPost-Backlash Feminism: Women and the Media Since Reagan-Bush
Kellie Bean
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• Author(s): Kellie Bean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist Theory This work scrutinizes the prefix-based language of post-backlash feminism and calls for a reclamati...
View full detailsThe Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World
L. Ron Hubbard
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• Author(s): L. Ron Hubbard • Publisher: Bridge Publications, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Bridge Publications, Inc. • BISAC: ScientologyLife is composed of seven-tenths work, one-tenthfamilial, one-tenth political and one-tenth relaxation.Here, the...
View full detailsCaptured on Corregidor: Diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II
John M. Wright
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• Author(s): John M. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Cor...
View full detailsOrthodox Jews in America
Jeffrey S. Gurock
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• Author(s): Jeffrey S. Gurock • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralJeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in...
View full detailsBeyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora
Neilesh Bose
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• Author(s): Neilesh Bose • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa-many published here for the first ti...
View full detailsThe Prism of Grammar: How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
Tom Roeper
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• Author(s): Tom Roeper • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsExploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but ab...
View full detailsH.J. Heinz: A Biography
Quentin R. Skrabec
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• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Business Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all...
View full detailsThe Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth
William Wordsworth, Mary Wordsworth, Beth Darlington
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• Author(s): William Wordsworth | Mary Wordsworth | Beth Darlington • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LettersThe Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth collects 31 letters that Willi...
View full detailsMake Movies That Make Money!: The Low-Budget Filmmaker's Guide to Commercial Success
Philip R. Cable
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• Author(s): Philip R. Cable • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production The term "low-budget" can refer to anything from a $10 million indie flick to a student film...
View full detailsCitizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante
Michael Peter Smith, Matt Bakker
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• Author(s): Michael Peter Smith | Matt Bakker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationMichael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying out ethnographic...
View full detailsMilton and the Victorians
Erik Gray
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• Author(s): Erik Gray • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryThe Victorian period was a golden age for the study of Milton. Yet the influence of Milton on poetry, and on literature more...
View full detailsApocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations
Melissa Croteau, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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• Author(s): Melissa Croteau | Carolyn Jess-Cooke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties a...
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