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Comebacks

The Return of the Aging Film Star

Edited by Gloria Monti and Martin Shingler

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814350621

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Their work reveals the unique circumstances of each actor's comeback trajectory as they seek to understand the consequences of aging in a largely sexist and ageist film industry, while providing new ways of conceptualizing films featuring comeback stars.

Appropriated Tales

Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

by Michelle Anya Anjirbag

Series edited by Anne E. Duggan

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814351086

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths a new framework for studies of Disney fairy tales and how they shape popular culture.

The Rockford Files

by Amanda Keeler

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814351000

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

112 Pages

Keeler highlights the contributions of the show's writers—including women writing in a male-dominated TV industry—who left their mark on the series and fostered the unique feel that resonated with audiences throughout its time on air, in later film reunions, and beyond.

The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema

Voice, Body, Technology

by Shikha Jhingan

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814350942

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

296 Pages

The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema is an authoritative addition to the field of sound studies with implications for gender studies, performance studies, and cinema studies.

The Un-Chosen Body

Disability Culture in Israel

by Ilana Szobel

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814351833

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

280 Pages

For those interested in disability justice, gender, and creativity, Szobel illustrates how Israeli and Palestinian artists create new possibilities through their work.

Jane the Virgin

by Paul Julian Smith

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814352618

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

112 Pages

Finally, the blending of the fictional and real-life personas of Gina Rodríguez (who played the protagonist, Jane) and her supporting cast marks the lasting impact the show had in television.

REMNANTS and What Remains

Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors

by Henry Hank Greenspan

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814352632

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

80 Pages

A memoir that reads like a spoken-word poem, this book offers new understanding of Greenspan's groundbreaking work in Holocaust studies as well as his contributions to oral history and theater performance.

Broads, Sisters, Exes

Feminist Millennial Television

by Vincent L. Stephens

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814350263

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

246 Pages

Through elegant prose deeply rooted in an intersectional feminist perspective, Stephens expands the aesthetic and narrative grammars of contemporary television.

Murder, She Wrote

by Bridget Kies

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814350119

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

Embark on a journey through the mysteries of Cabot Cove and beyond to learn why Murder, She Wrote remains a timeless classic.

New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

A Transnational Art Cinema

Edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher

Afterword by Eric Rentschler

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814348901

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

358 Pages

Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what New German Cinema was and imagine what it might yet become.

Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance

by Florence Jacobowitz

Foreword by Serge Toubiana

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814348932

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

226 Pages

Thus, Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance demonstrates its premise through close readings considering how performance must be read in tandem with the whole.

Movie-Made Los Angeles

by John Trafton

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814347768

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.

Hidden Light

Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema

by Dan Chyutin

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814350676

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

294 Pages

By virtue of this exploration, Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of "magicmay be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.

Will & Grace

by Tison Pugh

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814349069

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

132 Pages

In negotiating protocols of network television and the desires of audiences both gay and straight, this trailblazing series remains simultaneously haunted by and liberated from longstanding queer stereotypes.

Beyond the Land

Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century

by Melissa Weininger

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814350591

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

232 Pages

This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.

Mad Men

by Gary R. Edgerton

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814345467

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

150 Pages

Throughout its seven seasons, the series struck a delicate balance of being both complex and cerebral while entertaining and accessible, a balance that Edgerton skillfully carries over to this book.

Parks and Recreation

by Holly Willson Holladay

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814347881

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

220 Pages

Throughout its run, Parks and Recreation engaged with political debates simmering in American culture, offering a humorous ripped-from-the-headlines take on issues such as same-sex marriage, distrust of politicians, government shutdowns, and corporate bailouts Through compelling analysis, Holladay untangles representations of women and BIPOC in the series as they engage with contemporary discourse surrounding media and identity politics.

Queer Imaginings

On Writing and Cinematic Friendship

by David A. Gerstner

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9780814350218

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

328 Pages

Ultimately, Queer Imaginings is a journey in shared pleasures in which writing for and about cinema makes way for unanticipated cinematic friendships.

Funny, You Don't Look Funny

Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

by Jennifer Caplan

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814347317

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2023

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

296 Pages

Offering ample evidence and examples along the way, Caplan guides readers through a series of phenomenological and ideological changes across generations, concluding with commentary regarding the potential influences on Jewish humor of later Millennials, Gen Z, and beyond.

Fearless Vulgarity

Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship

by Ken Feil

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814346044

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

Susann's promotional appearances led to another comedy of bad manners, this one populated with critics alternately horrified and delighted by an upstart woman vulgarian barging into the male literary firmament, and which continues to inspire fascination for the author, her novels, and their legendarily bad film adaptations.

Streisand

The Mirror of Difference

by Garrett Stewart

Price: $35.99

ISBN: 9780814349083

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

252 Pages

Down through her filmed return to the concert stage, Stewart elicits the sinuous phonetic text of Streisand's on-screen musical delivery in a keenly attentive mode of audition that puts into fresh perspective the indelible aura of her stardom.

Gene Tierney

Star of Hollywood's Home Front

by Will Scheibel

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814348215

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

276 Pages

Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

Kolchak: the Night Stalker

by Kendall R. Phillips

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814349045

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

The enduring impact of the series on current television horror continues to draw more and more individuals into its robust fanbase, and these fans continue to consume and create new narratives of their favorite monster-hunting reporter even fifty years after he first appeared.

The Good Place

by Erin Giannini

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814348659

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

112 Pages

Television studies scholars and fans of the show will enjoy Giannini's analysis of The Good Place as they read about the show's laughs and twists and turns.

American Television During a Television Presidency

Edited by Karen McNally

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814349359

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

Undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of film and television studies, comedy studies, and cultural studies will value this strong collection.

Mothers of Invention

Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor

Edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814348529

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

368 Pages

This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies.

The Outer Limits

by Joanne Morreale

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814347454

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

It will be of special interest to scholars and students of television and media studies, as well as fans of science fiction.

Woman Up

Invoking Feminism in Quality Television

by Julia Havas

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814346563

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

282 Pages

Woman Upwill most appeal to students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist media studies, television studies, and cultural studies.

The Americans

by Linda Mizejewski

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814347430

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

Everyone from scholars and students of television and media studies, genre studies, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture, to superfans who can't believe the show is over will revel in this highly approachable and fun read.

Hawaii Five-O

by Brian Faucette

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814344323

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

552 Pages

Faucette makes a strong argument for the series as a distinctive artifact of a time in US history that witnessed profound changes in culture, politics, and economics, one that will excite not only scholars and students of television and media studies but any die-hard fan of gripping police procedurals.

Eye of the Taika

New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi

by Matthew Bannister

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814345337

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

144 Pages

Eye of the Taika is intended for film scholars and film lovers alike.

Our Blessed Rebel Queen

Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia

Edited by Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814346860

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

120 Pages

Longtime fans of Carrie Fisher and her body of work will welcome this smart and thoughtful tribute to a multimedia legend.

Breaking Bad

by Christopher Sharrett

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814342565

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

136 Pages

Sharrett’s argument for why the show is the canniest dramatic insight of our times is worth the price of admission for scholars and students of media studies and superfans alike.

Homicide: Life on the Street

by Lisa Doris Alexander

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814348673

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

Fans of the works of David Simon, as well as students and scholars of television studies and Critical Race Theory, will enjoy this enlightening book.

Resetting the Scene

Classical Hollywood Revisited

Edited by Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814347799

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

Intended for scholars and students of Hollywood film history, Resetting the Scene intersects with numerous fields consonant with film studies, including star studies, media industry studies, and critical race theory.

After "Happily Ever After"

Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age

Edited by Maria San Filippo

Foreword by Tamar Jeffers MacDonald

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814346747

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

382 Pages

This volume is intended for all readers with an interest in film, media, and gender studies.

Batman: the Animated Series

by Joe Sutliff Sanders

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814345405

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

Batman fans, popular culture enthusiasts, and media studies scholars will find within these pages insights and ironies to provoke endless conversations.

Starring Tom Cruise

Edited by Sean Redmond

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814347188

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

88 Pages

Students, scholars, and readers of film, media, and celebrity studies will enjoy this deep dive into a complex Hollywood figure.

Scratching the Surface

Adventures in Storytelling

by Harvey Ovshinsky

Foreword by Don Gonyea

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814344743

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

80 Pages

His approach is to, in a very supportive and non-threatening way, combine both introductory and advanced storytelling in one fell swoop."

New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation

Edited by Betty Kaklamanidou

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814346259

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

Scholars of cultural, gender, film, literary, and adaptation studies will find this collection innovative and thought-provoking.

V. F. Perkins on Movies

Collected Shorter Film Criticism

Edited by Douglas Pye

Foreword by George M. Wilson

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814346433

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

Perkins on Movies gives unimpeded access to one of the most distinctive and distinguished of critical voices and will be widely welcomed by academics, students of film, and informed film enthusiasts.

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

Edited by Carl Fischer and Vania Barraza

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814346822

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

86 Pages

Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies

Fairy-Tale Film Truths

by Pauline Greenhill

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814342220

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies—which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students—considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the environment.

Stars and Silhouettes

The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood

by Joceline Andersen

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814346914

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

392 Pages

Stars and Silhouettes belongs on the shelf of every scholar, student, and reader interested in film history and star studies.

The Cinema of Ettore Scola

Edited by Rémi Lanzoni and Edward Bowen

Foreword by Vito Zagarrio

Price: $35.99

ISBN: 9780814343791

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

The Cinema of Ettore Scola makes Scola accessible to English-reading audiences and helps readers better understand his film style, the major themes of his work, and the representations of twentieth-century Italian history in his films.

Embodying Hebrew Culture

Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine

by Nina S. Spiegel

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814348031

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Students and teachers of Israel studies, performance studies, and Jewish cultural history will appreciate Embodying Hebrew Culture.

The Golden Girls

by Kate Browne

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814345641

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Written with both superfans and scholars in mind, the book invites new, diverse ways of thinking about the show to spark future scholarship and conversation about four of the most beloved characters in sitcom history.

The Construction of Testimony

Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes

Edited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814347348

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Scholars and students of film studies and Holocaust studies will value this close analysis.

Twin Peaks

by Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814346228

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

122 Pages

Readers interested in film, television, pop culture, and gender studies as well as fans and new audiences discovering Twin Peaks will embrace this book.

The Twilight Zone

by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814345788

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

132 Pages

Longtime fans of the show and new viewers of Jordan Peele’s 2019 reboot alike will enjoy this deep dive into the original series’ history, style, and significance.

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