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Wayne State University Press 4809 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48201-1309 Toll free: (800) 978-7323 Fax: (313) 577-6131 Web site: wsupress.wayne.edu Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 3844 Detroit, Michigan This brochure lists new and recent books in film and television studies from Wayne State University Press, primarily in our Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. The Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series focuses on origi- nal areas of film research and innovative critical approaches to film, television, and new media. The series publishes works that open further avenues for research and debate for both the scholar and the general reader. The titles are suitable for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Series Editor: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University To see a complete list of our film, television, and media studies titles, please visit wsupress.wayne.edu/subjects/film-and-television. For a 20% discount on any title, enter the code FS12 at checkout. WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Gender Studies Contributors: Caetlin Benson-Allott, Mike Chopra-Gant, Melvin Donalson, Mark Gallagher, David Greven, Claire Sisco King, Neal King, Gina Marchetti, R. Barton Palmer, Donna Peberdy, Chris Robé, Maria San Filippo, Christopher Sharrett, Timothy Shary, Aaron Taylor Film & Ethnic Studies Contributors: Daniel Bernardi, Vincent Brook, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Lucy Fischer, Lester D. Friedman, Sumiko Higashi, Sarah Kozloff, Peter Krämer, Murray Pomerance, Catherine Portuges, William Rothman, Vivian Sobchack, David Sterritt, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Hollywood’s Chosen People The Jewish Experience in American Cinema Edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson “Ranging from the silent cinema to Streisand, Stiller, and Sandler, this collection not only tells us much about the ambivalences of the culture in its dealing with American Jewry but with Hollywood’s Jews as they came to terms with America.” —David M. Desser, Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign September 2012 / 6 x 9 / 224 pp / 36 illus ISBN 978-0-8143-3482-9, $31.95 paper Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Millennial Masculinity Men in Contemporary American Cinema Edited by Timothy Shary Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema is an anthology addressing questions in almost every aspect of culture—health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sexuality, race, and economics—through studies of films about male representation at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this accessible and sophisticated collection, leading scholars in film and gender studies regard many issues of men’s roles in American cinema over the past two decades. This analysis of contemporary films furthers the evolution of knowledge and dialogue about the nature of masculinity at large. December 2012 / 6 x 9 / 384 pp / 45 illus ISBN 978-0-8143-3435-5, $29.95 paper Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series New titles in Film , Television , & media sTudies e e Many of our books are available as e-books! You can find our titles for sale with these vendors: Amazon.com • Google ebooks EBSCO Publishing • Ebrary • Project Muse e denotes ebook is available
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Wayne State University Press4809 Woodward AvenueDetroit, MI 48201-1309
Toll free: (800) 978-7323 Fax: (313) 577-6131 Web site: wsupress.wayne.edu
Non-profit Org.U.S. Postage
PAIDPermit No. 3844Detroit, Michigan
This brochure lists new and recent books in film and television studies from Wayne State University Press, primarily in our Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series.
The Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series focuses on origi-nal areas of film research and innovative critical approaches to film, television, and new media. The series publishes works that open further avenues for research and debate for both the scholar and the general reader. The titles are suitable for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Series Editor: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University
To see a complete list of our film, television, and media studies titles, please visit wsupress.wayne.edu/subjects/film-and-television.
For a 20% discount on any title, enter the code FS12 at checkout.
WAynE STATE UnivErSiTy PrESS
Gender StudiesContributors:
Caetlin Benson-Allott, Mike Chopra-Gant, Melvin Donalson, Mark Gallagher, David Greven, Claire Sisco King, Neal King,
Gina Marchetti, R. Barton Palmer, Donna Peberdy, Chris Robé, Maria San Filippo, Christopher Sharrett,
Timothy Shary, Aaron Taylor
Film &Ethnic Studies
Contributors: Daniel Bernardi, Vincent Brook, Wheeler Winston
Dixon, Lucy Fischer, Lester D. Friedman, Sumiko Higashi, Sarah Kozloff, Peter Krämer, Murray Pomerance, Catherine Portuges, William Rothman, Vivian Sobchack, David
Sterritt, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Hollywood’s Chosen PeopleThe Jewish Experience in American CinemaEdited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
“Ranging from the silent cinema to Streisand, Stiller, and Sandler, this collection not only tells us much about the ambivalences of the culture in its dealing with American Jewry but with Hollywood’s Jews as they came to terms with America.”
—David M. Desser, Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 2012 / 6 x 9 / 224 pp / 36 illus
iSBn 978-0-8143-3482-9, $31.95 paper
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Millennial MasculinityMen in Contemporary American CinemaEdited by Timothy Shary
Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema is an anthology addressing questions in almost every aspect of culture—health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sexuality, race, and economics—through studies of films about male representation at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this accessible and sophisticated collection, leading scholars in film and gender studies regard many issues of men’s roles in American cinema over the past two decades. This analysis of contemporary films furthers the evolution of knowledge and dialogue about the nature of masculinity at large.
December 2012 / 6 x 9 / 384 pp / 45 illus
iSBn 978-0-8143-3435-5, $29.95 paper
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Many of our books are available as e-books! You can find our titles for sale with these vendors:
Amazon.com • Google ebooks EBSCO Publishing • Ebrary • Project Muse
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Media StudiesContributors:
Jessica Aldred, Ralph H. Baer, Brett Camper, Karen Collins, Ross A. Dannenberg, Leonard
Herman, Erkki Huhtamo, Carly A. Kocurek, Sheila C. Murphy, Ed
Rotberg, Tim Skelly, Carl Therrien, Staci Tucker, Zach
Whalen, Mark J. P. Wolf
Film TheoryContributors:
Jinhee Choi, Faye Ginsburg, Bill Grantham, Mette Hjort, Paisley Livingston, Sylvia J. Martin, Richard Maxwell,
Toby Miller, Hamid Naficy, Michael Pokorny, Trevor
Ponech, Eva Novrup Redvall, John Sedgwick, Rod Stoneman, Michelle L.
Woodward
Before the CrashEarly Video Game HistoryEdited by Mark J. P. Wolf
“One of our preeminent video game scholars, Wolf continues to break new ground with this fascinating collection.”
—James Castonguay, associate professor of communication and media studies at Sacred Heart University
2012 / 6 x 9 / 272 pp / 40 illus
iSBn 978-0-8143-3450-8, $27.95 paper
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Film And riskEdited by Mette Hjort
“This is a daring, important, inventive book that takes significant ‘risks’ itself, which result in a dazzling payoff. The array of authors in the volume is striking, and the way in which the volume tackles the concept of risk from all possible vantage points is remarkable.”
—Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ryan Professor of Film Studies and English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2012 / 6 x 9 / 368 pp / 43 illus
iSBn 978-0-8143-3463-8, $29.95 paper
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Visit wsupress.wayne.edu/subjects/film-and-television for a full list of titles •
Television
Television
The West WingJanet McCabe
December 2012 / 5 x 7 / 144 pp / 15 illus iSBn 978-0-8143-3436-2, $15.95 paper
The Donna reed ShowJoanne Morreale
november 2012 / 5 x 7 / 128 pp / 12 illus iSBn 978-0-8143-3508-6, $15.95 paper
Deadwoodina rae Hark
2012 / 5 x 7 / 144 pp / 15 illus iSBn 9780814334492, $15.95 paper
Gilligan’s islandWalter Metz
2012 / 5 x 7 / 144 pp / 20 illus iSBn 978-0-8143-3372-3, $15.95 paper
ingmar Bergmannew EditionRobin WoodEdited by Barry Keith Grant
“Wood’s voice is unmistakably his own. His deep knowledge of Bergman’s films and his unerring sense of their place in a larger cultural conversation imparts an enviable authority.”
—Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware
September 2012 / 5.25 x 7.5 / 320 pp / 68 illus
iSBn 978-0-8143-3360-0, $26.95 paper
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
The Films of Joseph H. LewisEdited by Gary D. RhodesForeword by Francis M. Nevins
“The scholarship in this book is impressive. I would not be surprised if this book would become the definitive text on Lewis for quite a long time. Rhodes took great care with this collection, which is filled with solid scholarship and presented in a fluent, factual style.”
—Ernest Mathijs, University of British Columbia
September 2012 / 6 x 9 / 304 pp / 30 illus
iSBn 978-0-8143-3462-1, $31.95 paper
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
FilmmakersContributors:
Lance Duerfahrd, Michael E. Grost, David J. Hogan, Brian Hoyle, Christopher Justice,
Michael Lee, Hugh S. Manon, Francis M. Nevins, Gary D. Rhodes, Marlisa Santos,
Robert Singer, Phillip Sipiora, Brian Taves, Yannis
Tzioumakis, Tony Williams
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