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• Author(s): Graham Webb • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - ReferenceShort subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes ...

• Author(s): Michael Klossner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The geographic scope of this work is all of Europe, European Russia, Great Britain, Ireland, Icel...

• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation ...

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora!...

• Author(s): Elana Reiser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Study & Teaching Mathematics teachers often struggle to motivate their students. One way to cultivate and maintain student in...

• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Film noir is a uniquely American genre that has stylistic links to the German expressionist cinema of the...

• Author(s): Stuart Galbraith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This encyclopedic reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in the ...

• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The conventions of gangster movies have become well known: the gum-chewing moll, the kiss of d...

• Author(s): Rolf Giesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German c...

• Author(s): Henryk Hoffmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General References to western movies scattered over some 250 works by more than 130 authors constitute the subject matt...

• Author(s): Bill Van Heerden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In Only the Lonely (1991), Ally Sheedy appeases prospective mother-in-law Maureen O'Hara by go...

• Author(s): Larry Langman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign correspondents, pr...

• Author(s): Cynthia Marylee Molt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is the definitive collection of data about all aspects of this film. The ten sections...

• Author(s): Matthew Coniam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what "habeas Irish rose" is? What is the...

• 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): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Hundreds of musical groups have appeared in at least one film from 1929 through 1970. This is a reference book devo...

• Author(s): Ted Holland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference During the course of a Western movie, the white hat could sing six songs to a beautiful girl, shoot half a dozen ...

• Author(s): Robert K. Klepper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge's initia...

• Author(s): Harry Waldman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once thei...

• Author(s): Mike Malloy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Cult film star Lee Van Cleef began his movie career in Hollywood, appearing as evil-eyed villains in such 1950s and...

• Author(s): Douglas L. McCall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This work covers ninety years of animation from James Stuart Blackton's 1906 short Humorous Phases of Funny Faces,...

• Author(s): Alfonso J. García Osuna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference On January 24, 1897, an event took place that would change Cuban culture forever: the first moving pictures ...

• Author(s): Ted Okuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Monogram Pictures Corporation, one of several famed "poverty row" studios, produced over 700 feature films--cheap, often ine...

• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Often forgotten among the actors, directors, producers and others associated with filmmaking, art directo...

• Author(s): Ruth Benjamin | Arthur Rosenblatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This is an exhaustive reference volume to the thousands of songs, songwriters and performers ...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Each entry includes brief biographical and career data for the performer, with birthplace and year of...

• Author(s): Doug Gelbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television se...

• Author(s): Michael F. Keaney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This work presents 369 British films produced between 1937 and 1964 that embody many of the same...

• Author(s): Aristides Gazetas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Motion pictures are more than just entertainment. In film studies courses in colleges and universities worl...

• Author(s): J. W. Williamson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, t...

• Author(s): Ed Andreychuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This reference work presents useful information for every known film and television episode drawn...

• Author(s): Michael G. Stevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism While countless films have been based on fictional characters, a surprising number have also...

• Author(s): James F. Broderick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism How is the android Data like Shakespeare's character Hamlet? Is the vengeful Khan (ori...

• Author(s): Ted Okuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a "poverty...

• Author(s): Michael F. Keaney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this ex...