Tom Pendergast

Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of this event, as well as the principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history.

The Vietnam War

Sara Pendergast

Sarah Hermsen

This volume provides a history of human decoration and adornment.

Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages

Fashion, Costume, and Culture

The hairstyles, slang terms, advertising jingles, pop music sensations, and all else described as popular culture is covered in this 5-vol. reference. Arranged chronologically by decade and by broad topics within each decade, Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms focuses solely on the popular culture of the century -- hairstyles, slang terms, television shows, pop music sensations, etc. -- offering more detailed information on trends and fads than any other resource. Written specifically for students in grades 5 through 12, major topics include: products and brands, toys and games, music and dance, holidays, shopping, sports, movements and much more. Also includes approximately 400 photos, a cumulative table of contents, timeline, subject and cumulative general index and trivia sidebars.

Pop Culture of 20th-century America

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms

Contains over 2,700 alphabetically arranged essays that provide information on various elements of popular culture in the United States during the twentieth century, covering the major areas of film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, and art and performance. Includes time frame, category, and title indexes.

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the past ten decades. In 5 volumes.

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms: 1920s and 1930s

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms: 1960s and 1970s

Contains over two thousand entries, arranged alphabetically within four volumes, that provide information about significant films, actors and actresses, directors, and writers and production artists in North American, British, and West European cinematic history. Includes photographs and indexes.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Writers and production artists

Profiles seventy-five authors, writing teams, and illustrators of graphic novels, and features an introduction to the genre, discussion of manga, brief accounts of graphic novel publishers, a glossary, and photographs.

U-X-L Graphic Novelists: A-H

Jean-Christophe Ammann

Arranged alphabetically from Magdalena Abakanowicz to Tadaaki Kuwayama, this volume provides a biography of the artist, a selected list of exhibitions, a list of public collections that include work by the artist, and more.

Contemporary Artists: L-Z

Contains articles that profile twenty-four authors, writing teams, and illustrators of graphic novels, arranged alphabetically from Masashi Kishimoto to Alex Ross; and includes sidebars, photographs, and illustrations.

U-X-L Graphic Novelists: K-R

Contains articles that profile twenty-six authors, writing teams, and illustrators of graphic novels, arranged alphabetically from Joe Sacco to Marv Wolfman, and includes sidebars, photographs, and illustrations.

U-X-L Graphic Novelists: S-W

Offers cast, credits, plot summary, and a critical bibliography for each film, along with biographical information on directors, actors, writers, and production artists.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Films

Sharon Malinowski

Biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on more than four hundred authors who have figured prominently in gay and lesbian literature and culture since 1900.

Gay & Lesbian Literature: Introduction to gay male literature

Online version of the 2-vol. work issued by St. James Press, 2003, in series St. James reference guides.

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