Wayne State University Press: 405 books
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"—the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through copy machines,...
by Dennis Broe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Airing on ABC from 1957 to 1962, Maverick appeared at a key moment in television Western history and provided a distinct alternative to the genre’s usual moralistic lawmen in its hero, Bret Maverick. A non-violent gambler and part-time con man, Maverick’s principles revolved around pleasure and not...
Trespassing
Dirt Stories and Field Notes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Essays and stories that contemplate the exploitation of Michigan’s agricultural landscape by modern factory farms.
Mapping Detroit
Land, Community, and Shaping a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how...
Greetings from Detroit
Historic Postcards from the Motor City
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiled and presented in full color by Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. From familiar sights to long lost...
by Royce Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas.
Shadows of Doubt
Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films, Barry Keith Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. Arguing instead that part of the mythic function of genre movies is to offer audiences an ongoing dialogue...
Millennial Masculinity
Men in Contemporary American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, editor Timothy...
by Ina Rae Hark
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Considers the HBO series Deadwood in the context of the television Western genre and the intersection of capital and violence in American history.
by Herbert Benario
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
The Res Gestae and Fragmenta by Caesar Augustus annotated for beginning Latin students.
Documenting the Documentary
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski...
by Steven Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Traces the legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski in films made after his death using his scripts or ideas and in the work of other filmmakers.
Reclaiming the Archive
Feminism and Film History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches—including...
Virgin Territory
Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
A critical and in-depth investigation of how virginity is represented in film.