Search results for “[Subject: entertainment]”

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their pro...

• Author(s): Katherine M. D. Dunbabin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralTheater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and so...

• Author(s): Monica Storme Gallamore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The Incomparable Hildegarde (1906-2005) began her career as a pianist in...

• Author(s): Pete Postlethwaite • Publisher: Phoenix • Publisher Imprint: Phoenix • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralVibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.After training as a ...

• Author(s): John A. Hodgson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: African American & BlackApart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his ...

• Author(s): Jeremy Agnew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold...

• Author(s): Edwin M. Bradley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This study of early sound shorts begins with an explanation of the development of sound motion pi...

• Author(s): Herbert Gans • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralIs NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this ...

• Author(s): Jamie Brotherton | Ted Okuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Whe...

• Author(s): Mark Forsyth • Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English l...

• Author(s): Thomas Barthel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History From his first year in the majors, George Herman "Babe" Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth ...

• Author(s): Dean W. Duncan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This study questions the widely held perception that books, as an artistic medium, are superior to and more respectable...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not...

• 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...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews In 1954 NBC President Pat Weaver introduced "spectaculars"--lavish entertainment shows desig...

• Author(s): Michael Z. Newman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicThe cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over ...

• Author(s): Howard Good | Sandra L. Borden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism As modern media shift from the distribution of information to its creation, a fresh inquiry into the...

• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the e...

• Author(s): Margaret Talbot • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsUsing the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Marg...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• 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...

• Author(s): Gregory Desilet • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Is violence in American cinema a reflection of life? Or does life imitate the violence people s...

• Author(s): Michael Zmuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking ...

• Author(s): Amarnath Amarasingam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest ...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni...

• Author(s): Bill Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From the early days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book is the story of African American entertainment as seen throug...

• Author(s): Tim Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today consi...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General On stage from her childhood, Martha Raye (1916-1994) proudly embraced the role o...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Ca...

• Author(s): Ann Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment ...

• Author(s): M. F. Steen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also stra...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephi...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...