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by Audrey Isabel Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip’s lyrical other-worlds analyzes her characters, environments and legends and their...
Opera in the Media Age
Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety...
James Joyce
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Though he published just a handful of major works in his lifetime, James Joyce (1882–1941) continues to fascinate readers around the world and remains one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. The complexity of Joyce’s style has attracted—and occasionally puzzled—generations...
Stars of '90s Dance Pop
29 Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
The 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the decade was among the genre’s most successful in terms of energy, sales and global popularity. In this retrospective, 29 singers, songwriters, producers, DJs and industry professionals who enjoyed stardom on...
Egyptomania Goes to the Movies
From Archaeology to Popular Craze to Hollywood Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
“Egyptomania,” the West’s obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, literature and the performing arts. But the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922, by a sensation-hungry world newly united by mass media, created...
That's Me, Groucho!
The Solo Career of Groucho Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Groucho Marx’s career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting...
by Ed Andreychuk
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio serial hero through a highly-rated television series (1949–1957) to a 2013 feature film. Created by script writer Fran Striker and radio station owner George W. Trendle, the character was...
Gale Storm
A Biography and Career Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name—“Gale Storm.” One of the United States’ most beloved...
George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison
An Alliance That Began the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief...
Murdering Indians
A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
In February of 1897 a family of six—four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother—was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, an axe, a pitchfork, a spade, and a club. Several Dakota Indians from the nearby Standing Rock reservation...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
The Possible Fates of Edward V and Richard of York
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The fate of Richard III’s two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More’s history and Shakespeare’s play laid the blame on their conniving uncle. Some later writers, unconvinced of the king’s...
The Theater of Terrence McNally
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This first book-length work on Terrence McNally shows how his decades in the theater have refined his thoughts on subjects like growing up gay in mannish, homophobic Texas, Shakespeare’s legacy in contemporary drama, and the life-giving power of forgiveness. McNally believes that the ability to...
Katherine V. Forrest
A Critical Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular literature. Yet her work has received little scholarly attention. This critical study explores Forrest’s entire body of work, including her fiction and (perhaps...
The Bigfoot Filmography
Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
The Sasquatch film genre, devoted to the legendary and notoriously elusive creature also known as Bigfoot, and its Himalayan counterpart, the Yeti, is the focus of this illustrated reference guide. Here is a fascinatingly detailed look at the cinematic history of Sasquatch, from the earliest trick...