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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cinemagritte

René Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice

by Lucy Fischer

Price: $38.99

ISBN: 9780814346372

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2019

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

Students, scholars, and fans of art history and film will enjoy this thoughtful marriage of the two.

African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness

Edited by Mark A. Reid

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814345481

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2019

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

152 Pages

The interdisciplinary quality of the anthology makes it approachable to students and scholars of fields ranging from film to culture to African American studies alike.

Cinematic Cryptonymies

The Absent Body in Postwar Film

by Ofer Eliaz

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814345627

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

Scholars interested in postwar film and history, trauma and war, or psychoanalytic theory will all find this volume of interest.

Robin Wood on the Horror Film

Collected Essays and Reviews

by Robin Wood

Edited by Barry Keith Grant

Introduction by Richard Lippe

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814345238

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

96 Pages

Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and film genre.

1968 and Global Cinema

Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814342930

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

216 Pages

The volume is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses on the long sixties, political cinema, 1968, and new waves in art history, cultural studies, and film and media studies.

The Films of Jess Franco

Edited by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814343166

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

64 Pages

The Films of Jess Franco seeks to address the scholarly neglect of this legendary cult director and to broaden the conversation around the director's work in ways that will be of interest to fans and academics alike.

Beyond Method

Stella Adler and the Male Actor

by Scott Balcerzak

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814342916

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

Film and theater scholars, as well as those interested in gender studies, are sure to benefit from this thorough study.

The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts

A Transnational Art Cinema

Edited by Jaimey Fisher and Marco Abel

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814342008

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

416 Pages

This volume will be of great interest to scholars of German and global cinema.

Transforming Harry

The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age

Edited by John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814342862

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

Beyond the classroom, the Harry Potter series clearly enjoys a large and devoted global fan community, and this collection will be of interest to serious fans.

Comic Venus

Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

by Kristen Anderson Wagner

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9780814341025

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2018

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

270 Pages

Those with an interest in film and representations of femininity in comedy will be fascinated by the analytical connections and thoroughly researched histories of these women and their groundbreaking movements in comedy and stage.

The Best Laid Plans

Interrogating the Heist Film

Edited by Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814342244

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2017

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

The Best Laid Plans includes an accessible group of essays that will meet the needs of students and scholars in film and media studies by offering new insights into an important and neglected area in genre criticism.

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Women in Israeli Cinema

by Rachel S. Harris

Price: $35.99

ISBN: 9780814339671

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2017

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

Students and scholars of film, gender, or cultural studies will appreciate this approachable monograph.

Projecting the World

Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood

Edited by Russell Meeuf and Anna Cooper

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814343067

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2017

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

A fascinating exploration of an oft-overlooked aspect of classical Hollywood films, Projecting the World offers a series of striking new analyses that will entice cinema lovers, film historians, and those interested in the history of American neocolonialism.

From Tinseltown to Bordertown

Los Angeles on Film

by Celestino Deleyto

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814339855

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2017

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

312 Pages

Film scholars with an interest in history and place will appreciate this book.

The Boys in the Band

Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics

Edited by Matt Bell

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814341537

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2016

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

320 Pages

Scholars and students working in the disciplines of film studies, queer studies, history, theater, and sociology will surely find the book invaluable and a shaping influence on these fields in the coming years.

Beyond Blaxploitation

Edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters Jr.

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814340769

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2016

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.

The Apu Trilogy

New Edition

by Robin Wood

Introduction by Barry Keith Grant

Preface by Richard Lippe

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814332771

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2016

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

348 Pages

Robin Wood’s The Apu Trilogy offers an excellent account of evaluative criticism that will appeal to film scholars and students alike.

Blackness Is Burning

Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition

by TreaAndrea M. Russworm

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814340516

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2016

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

112 Pages

Blackness Is Burning's interdisciplinary reach is what makes it a vital component to nearly any scholar's library, particularly those with an interest in African American popular culture, film and media studies, or psychoanalytic theory.

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering

Edited by Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814339398

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2015

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

416 Pages

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the tensions at play in our fascination with an actor’s dual role as private individual and cultural icon.

Christophe Honoré

A Critical Introduction

by David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814338636

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2015

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

272 Pages

Students and teachers of queer film will appreciate this thought-provoking volume.

Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

by Anjeana Hans

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814338940

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

Scholars of film and German history will appreciate the intriguing study of Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic.

Arthur Penn

New Edition

by Robin Wood

With Richard Lippe

Edited by Barry Keith Grant

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814333587

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

280 Pages

The fourth classic monograph by Wood to be republished by Wayne State University Press, this volume will be welcomed by film scholars and readers interested in American cinematic and cultural history.

Reading the Bromance

Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television

Edited by Michael DeAngelis

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814338988

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

328 Pages

Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in pop culture and queer studies will enjoy the insights of Reading the Bromance.

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

Edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814339374

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2014

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema.

Documenting the Documentary

Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition

Edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski

Foreword by Bill Nichols

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814339718

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2013

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

240 Pages

Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.

Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

by Elisabetta Girelli

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814335147

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2013

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

296 Pages

Scholars of gender and film, performance studies, queer and sexuality studies, and masculinity studies will appreciate this compelling study.

Buffoon Men

Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity

by Scott Balcerzak

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814339657

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2013

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

280 Pages

Fans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.

Cinema and Community

Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917

by Moya Luckett

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814337257

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: July 2013

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

432 Pages

Film scholars interested in the early years of American cinema will appreciate this insightful study.

The Last Laugh

Strange Humors of Cinema

Edited by Murray Pomerance

Price: $33.99

ISBN: 9780814335130

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2013

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

For scholars of film and readers who love cinema, these essays will be rich and playful inspiration.

The Time of Our Lives

Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture

Edited by Siân Lincoln and Yannis Tzioumakis

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814336243

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2013

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

352 Pages

Fans of the movie and students and scholars of cultural, performance, and film history will appreciate the insight in The Time of Our Lives.

Millennial Masculinity

Men in Contemporary American Cinema

Edited by Timothy Shary

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814334355

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

384 Pages

Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.

Appetites and Anxieties

Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

by Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson and Mark Bernard

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814334317

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

336 Pages

Scholars of film studies and food studies will enjoy the thought-provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties.

The Donna Reed Show

by Joanne Morreale

Price: $19.99

ISBN: 9780814335086

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

160 Pages

Fans of the show, as well as students and teachers of television history, will enjoy this close look at The Donna Reed Show.

Hollywood's Chosen People

The Jewish Experience in American Cinema

Edited by Daniel Bernardi, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Murray Pomerance

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814334829

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.

The Films of Joseph H. Lewis

Edited by Gary D. Rhodes

Foreword by Francis M. Nevins

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814334621

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

304 Pages

Scholars of film and television studies and fans of Lewis's work will appreciate this comprehensive collection.

Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters

Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema

by Nir Cohen

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814334782

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2011

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

Film and television scholars, as well as those interested in queer studies and the cultural history of Israel will be grateful for this thorough study of gay Israeli cinema.

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