Search results for “[Subject: entertaining]”

• 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): David Monod • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyShow business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marg...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Mae G. Henderson | Charlene B. Regester • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and politic...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Gary Coville | Patrick Lucanio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The identity of Jack the Ripper has consumed public curiosity since he first to...

• 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...