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Lively and ambitious, the definitive resource guide. ... Read more

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White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Almost 2,000 annotations and biographical synopses of major American, British, and European authors make this a unique reference work and essential acquisition for both the scholar of popular culture and the general reader. In addition, its appendices--such as Series Characters, References, and Craft Notes by novelists and trial lawyers--are certain to make this the definitive source of reference for courtroom drama in English or translation. ... Read more

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An impressive amount of literature, particularly literature on soccer and baseball, has appeared since Joseph Arbena's 1989 bibliography, An Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Sport. This new bibliography includes titles published during the past decade as well as a few items omitted from the earlier bibliography. Arranged topically, it includes sections on indigenous traditions, Iberian background, the National Period in Middle America and in South America, and Hispanic sports and sportsmen in the United States. ... Read more

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The endurance of the Frankenstein narrative as a modern cinematic myth is undeniable. Its flexibility has produced classic and contemporary horror films--most notably the Universal films of the thirties--but it has also resulted in unusual hybrids, such as musical horror-comedy (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), hyperbolic parody (Flesh for Frankenstein), and science fiction (the Alien and Terminator series). This sourcebook provides a complete guide to all of the story's filmic incarnations--including essential information such as cast, creative personnel, and plot summaries--and also guides the reader to relevant primary texts such as scripts, posters, production histories, and newspaper clippings. Utilizing an approach that is both popular and scholarly, and including spotlight essays that deal with contemporary academic approaches to the subject, The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook reveals the depth of the cinematic range of interpretations of a classic modern myth. ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive bibliography on the history and culture of the Kickapoo Indians, considered the most traditional of all North American Indian tribes. Covering materials from the 1800s to 1998, it includes books and book chapters, journal articles, theses and dissertations, conference papers, government publications, and Internet sites. With descriptive and critical annotations, it provides a unique guide to such topics as Kickapoo acculturation, ceremonies and folklore, education, land tenure, religion, and medicine and health. ... Read more

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This volume gathers articles of crucial concern to Black Americans. These issues include education, research funding at historically black colleges and universities, voting rights, unemployment, income support policies, health care reform and racism. These contributions, taken together, form a crucible for thought. ... Read more

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Exhaustively researched and well constructed, this comprehensive bibliography clears up mysteries and misconceptions about the work of this important African- American writer known especially for his Harlem series of detective novels, written in France where he lived as an expatriate. The primary bibliography identifies all U.S., French, and British first and second editions of Himes's novels, the first appearances of his short stories in periodicals, his collected fiction, and his nonfiction. It includes manuscript materials and film adaptations. The annotated secondary bibliography documents biographial and critical work about Himes published in the United States, Britain, and France. The volume introduction outlines Himes's life and career and provides a realistic evaluation of his critical reception based on the secondary bibliography. ... Read more

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The First World War film archive at the Imperial War Museum, London, is one of the oldest in the world, celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1994. This new catalog, compiled by members of the Museum's staff, covers all of the 1217 items in the First World War collection. Among this collection are full-length documentary films, shorter documentaries and newsreels, instructional and propaganda material, and animation, the majority of which is unique. It covers the battlefields and the home front, providing invaluable material for a full understanding of the history of the Great War in all its aspects. It traces many early stages in the evolution of combat camerawork and the effective film coverage of war. ... Read more

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Joel Chandler Harris was internationally famous in his own time and has a surprisingly broad scholarly and popular following in ours. His portraits of slaves and former slaves, particularly Uncle Remus and Free Joe, poor whites, and Brer Rabbit, the archetypal trickster hero, have influenced many other writers, including Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and a wide array of children's authors from Beatrix Potter to A. A. Milne. Harris also left a lasting mark on popular culture, most clearly manifested through Disney's Song of the South and at Disney World attractions featuring versions of Harris's characters. He singlehandedly preserved and made internationally famous the Brer Rabbit folktales, the largest body of African American oral folklore that the world has ever known. Additionally, Harris was a major New South journalist who accelerated the process of reconciliation between North and South and promoted racial tolerance after the Civil War. ... Read more

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The Jesus People Movement developed in the 1960s from experiential religion and attracted young teenagers to the historic tenets of Christianity. This book provides an overview of the Jesus People, and offers an examination of its participants, their beliefs, and their activities. ... Read more

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A great starting point for further reading
What this book will give depends on what you're hoping for from it. If you're wanting a single book that will give you explanation, historical context and insight from the key participants in the late 60s-mid 1970s religious phenomenon that's come to be known as the "Jesus People movement" or simply the "Jesus movement", this probably isn't the one. There are only fairly cursory explanations of exactly what the movement was (essentially, hippies and "outsiders" to the established Church experiencing a Christian rebirth created their own religious structures, often communes, because of distrust of the traditional Church) and no real interviews with key participants like Larry Norman, Lonnie Frisbee, or Duane Pedersen for example. But that's because this book is not INTENDED to do that: it's a guide for further research.

As such, it's excellent with hundreds of notations about articles and books about the movement from the easily locatable (articles from LOOK! magazine) to things that might require more digging from local newspapers.

Also, those whose primary interest in the movement is the music from it that birthed what's today known as Contemporary Christian Music (like me) will find a chapter toward the end invaluable in guiding you toward albums outside of the easily found Love Song, Randy Stonehill,Larry Norman, and Resurrection Band(later known simply as Rez Band or Rez).

BOTTOM LINE:
If you don't know WHAT the Jesus movement was, don't start here. Get Paul Baker's Contemporary Christian Music: Where It Came From, What It Is, and Where It's Going which is a better overview in general.

If you've already read that and want to know what to read next, this is the ideal place to look. If you're passionately interested in the Jesus People, this tome is indispensable.

A "Must-Have" Guide to the Jesus People Movement
"David Di Sabatino's bibliographic guide to the Jesus People Movement pulls off something exceedingly rare in the musty world of academic reference works--it manages to be an exhaustive, 'must-have' for anyone looking to research the movement, even as it provides a thought-provoking, and--this is the really hard part-- entertaining sense of retrospection for those readers who were a part of the 'Jesus Revolution' in their youth.This is an indispensable guide to a phenomenon of recent North American religious history which is only now beginning to be recognized for its widespread and lasting impact upon evangelical Christianity"--Larry Eskridge

From someone who was there during it all...
I leafed thorugh this work and really started to weep because it really brought some great feelings back. This was such a great time to be a Christian. I grew up at Calvary Chapel, and really appreciated the faith that began way back when... so, anything that tells about that time, I am all for it. God bless those who perservered from 30 years ago and are still walking with the Lord.

Quite the compendium of factoids!!
Wow!!

This thing really has a lot of citations in it, stuff I didn't even know was going on during that time... and I was there for it! Well, for some of it, anyway. Great discography section. Love those tunes from Larry Norman and the Love Song band. This brought back some great memories. Can't wait until he actually puts together a written work. I emailed him a couple of times and he says he is taking his time working on it. Can't wait!

Lot of work put into this compilation
The author certainly tracked down anything and everything that had to do with the Jesus freaks. Quite amazing, really. If you were ever going to do research on this subject, this volume is indespensable. Well worth the money. ... Read more

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"Newspapers provides a historical context for the books discussed in its readable essays and will be invaluable for anyone researching the history or role of newspapers in American life." Booklist "Professionals and scholars will find Newspapers: A Reference Guide useful. In it Schwarzlose supplies a thorough list of published works on newspaper topics." Adweek ... Read more

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Between 1936 and 1955, Hollywood significantly changed its portrayal of Hispanics in motion pictures. This change resulted from the demands of the Production Code Administration, which required film makers to eliminate the more offensive stereotypical Hispanic images. This filmography chronicles all of the Hispanic-related films released during this period. The volume includes entries for nearly four thousand films. The entries are arranged in chapters, with each chapter devoted to a single year. Within the chapters, the entries are listed alphabetically by film title. Each entry includes production information, an annotation detailing the film's Hispanic significance, and references to additional materials. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of film titles, an index of actors and actresses, an index of place names, a general subject index, and an index of songs. Film historians and scholars of Hispanic culture will find this work to be an indispensable reference tool. ... Read more

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Chronicling Shirley Temple Black's various careers, this work spans the years from her childhood at the studio and at home through her waning success during adolescence, to her diplomatic and political pursuits. An anomaly among child stars, Shirley Temple Black's successful adaptation to life outside the traditional Hollywood social life is explored against the backdrop of the child-star phenomenon in American entertainment. Facts about her childhood, her parental influences, and her political beliefs present Shirley Temple Black as a unique individual rather than as a child star icon. ... Read more