Reference works

On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then called an "e;experiment"e;).

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "e;Queen of Soul"e; Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush.

Founded by Robert M.

One of the powerful icons of 1930s Hollywood film, Jean Harlow died a tragically early death in 1937 at age 26.

American International Pictures was in many ways the "e;missing link"e; between big-budget Hollywood studios, "e;poverty-row"e; B-movie factories and low-rent exploitation movie distributors.

This day-by-day chronicle of every live concert by the Rolling Stones from 1962 through 1982 traces their development from a band playing small clubs around London to the global phenomenon we know today.

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This fourth comprehensive study of international terrorist attacks covers 2017, during which the Islamic State suffered continued reversals yet retained its status as the most active, well-financed and well-armed terrorist group worldwide.

Father James R.

Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition.

Ancient finger rings made of base metals and low-grade silver alloys are increasingly being unearthed and sold through a growing assortment of marketplaces worldwide.

This thoroughly updated and revised critical account of the Godzilla movie franchise explores the fascinating story behind Japan's most famous movie monster and its development from black-and-white arthouse allegory to international commercial juggernaut.

What do James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Margaret B.

The All-America Football Conference and the National Football League battled for supremacy from 1946 through 1949.

This is a supplement to the author's Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010.

British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors.

Covering the years 1945-2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that never went into production, and those that became series but with a different cast, such as The Green Hornet, The Middle and Superman.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror movies have spawned more sequels and remakes than any other film genre.

More than 700 uncredited scriptwriters who created the memorable characters and thrilling stories of radio's Golden Age receive due recognition in this reference work.

Most film buffs know that Citizen Kane was based on the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works--novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem--in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role.

This comprehensive reference work presents detailed bibliographical information about chess publications--books, bulletins and programs--covering competitions held around the world from 1971 through 2010.

Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium.

From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war.

In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico's first true sound film.

The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war.

Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "e;television"e; series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers.

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present.

The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures.

Theodor Seuss Geisel--known worldwide as the beloved children's author Dr.

Created by and for a specific American Indian community and offering special materials related to the tribe itself, a tribal library may also serve as homework center, a reading room, a tribal archive or a community center.

During the Depression years, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were second only to Laurel and Hardy at the box office.

This book is a cultural tour of the burial places of Southern musicians.

The sound of chainsaws revving on "e;haunted"e; Halloween trails has evoked untold screams since Tobe Hooper's 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the cinemas.

The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the careers of the ever-popular Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney and Rathbone, but few can dispute that he was truly one of the world's foremost character actors.

Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German citizenry that the Nazi ideology was the only ideology.

This unique state-by-state directory covers monuments, memorials, museums, markers, statues and library collections that relate to the veterans, weapons, vehicles, airplanes, victims or any other aspect of war in which the United States participated.

William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his Southern roots.

Military obligations rested lightly upon the Filipino people for much of the period that America occupied the Philippines, but Filipinos could enlist in the United States Army and Navy, attend the service academies at West Point and Annapolis, or join military organizations restricted to duty in the islands such as the Philippine Scouts, Philippine Constabulary, Philippine National Guard, and the navy's insular force.

This work covers ninety years of animation from James Stuart Blackton's 1906 short Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, in which astonished viewers saw a hand draw faces that moved and changed, to Anastasia, Don Bluth's 1997 feature-length challenge to the Walt Disney animation empire.

Republic Pictures Corporation, began as a motion picture laboratory in 1915.

In the 1990s alone, more than 400 works on angels were published, adding to an already burgeoning genre.

Archaeological digs have turned up sculptures in Inuit lands that are thousands of years old, but "e;Inuit art"e; as it is known today only dates back to the beginning of the 1900s.

"e;He had that rarest of all things, common sense.

Some may only know the jazz legend Stan Getz, tenor saxophonist, for his bossa nova hits "e;Desafinado"e; and "e;The Girl from Ipanema.

Millions of people practice some form of yoga, but they often do so without a clear understanding of its history, traditions, and purposes.

Nothing better represented the early spirit of American expansion than the railroad.

From classics like King Kong, to beloved B-movies like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, to blockbusters like Jurassic Park, it's easy to see that filmmakers and audiences alike love to see dinosaurs on the screen.

The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s with filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock Psycho and Michael Powell Peeping Tom making provocative mainstream films, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and Friday the 13th.