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George M. Eberhart N e w  P u b l i c a t i o n s  

The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool, by Chris 
Strodder (334 pages, March 2007), offers mil­
lennials a chance to catch up on the likes of 
1960s idols Mary Quant, Petula Clark, Bob­
by Darin, Brigitte Bardot, Andy Warhol, the 
Monkees, Sandy Koufax, and Darrell Royal, 
with a cool foreword by Mamas and Papas 
singer Michelle Phillips. Forget the politics, 
this was the pop. $24.95. Santa Monica Press. 
ISBN 978­1­59580­017­6. 

Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterin­
telligence, by Nigel West (438 pages, Febru­
ary 2007), identifies the terms and personali­
ties of Anglo­American and Soviet espionage 
from the defection of Igor Gouzenko in 1945 
to the unsuccessful Soviet coup of 1991. 
$115.00. Scarecrow. ISBN 978­0­8108­5770­4. 

A companion volume by Ephraim Kahana, 
Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence (369 
pages, April 2006), offers detailed informa­
tion on the agencies, operations, leaders, and 
agents of Israeli tradecraft, from early efforts 
during the Ottoman Empire to 2005. $75.00. 
Scarecrow. ISBN 978­0­8108­5581­6. 

Horror Films of the 1980s, by John Kenneth 
Muir (829 pages, March 2007), tackles the 

“dead teenager decade” 
of horror cinema with his 
characteristic comprehen­
siveness, insightful com­
mentary, and trenchant 
wit. A sequel to his 2002 
Horror Films of the 1970s 
(the “disco decade”), this 
volume contains two in­

troductory chapters that offer a sociopolitical 
context for horror (“Which towering fi gure 
dominated the ‘greed is good’ decade? Freddy 
Krueger or Ronald Reagan?”) and an analysis of 
1980s horror conventions and subgenres. Films 
are arranged by year, rated on the traditional 1 

George M. Eberhart is senior editor of American Libraries, 
e-mail: geberhart@ala.org 

to 4 star system, and accompanied by quotes 
from critics, cast and crew, synopsis, commen­
tary, memorable lines, an occasional interview 
extract, and legacy. Muir concludes that 1970s 
horror films were more creative and did more 
with less funding and effects, but in the 1980s 
they reached a glut of repetition and sequels 
and adaptations; nonetheless, the genre saved 
itself by transcending the slasher paradigm and 
interjecting supernatural elements and rubber­
reality scenarios. $59.95. McFarland. ISBN 978­
0­7864­2821­2. 

Topographies, by John Sallis (164 pages, March 
2007), looks at evocative landscapes and the 
effects they have on the human psyche. The 
book demands an exercise of “vision anchored 
in the concrete scene and animated by the play 
of imagination.” Sallis visits such ancient and 
venerable sites as Chantemerle in the Alps, 
Delos and Delphi in Greece, the South Tyrol 
in Italy, Dubrovnik in Croatia, Radnor Lake in 
Tennessee, and Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, to 
detect “what is wondrous in the sight of a wa­
terfall or of a deer bounding into a forest, or in 
the sound of locusts invisibly performing their 
nocturnal polyphony, or in the happening of 
an outdoor festival celebrating, with fi re, the 
summer solstice.” $24.95. Indiana University. 
ISBN 978­0­253­21871­1. 

Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, 
by James M. O’Toole and Richard J. Cox (237 
pages, 2d ed., 2006), is an essential overview 
of the archival profession for librarians who 
need to know or students who are interested. 
Greatly expanded from the 76 pages of the 
first edition of 1990, this guide has a com­
pletely new chapter on “Archivists and the 
Challenges of New Worlds,” which covers 
postmodernism, the Internet, ethics, advo­
cacy, and record­keeping in the digital era. A 
47­page bibliographic essay describes other 
texts the well­read archivist should be famil­
iar with. $49.00. Society of American Archi­
vists. ISBN 978­1­931666­20­6. 

May 2007  321 C&RL News 

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