Wayne Press: 446 books
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.
by Yuval Harari
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
“Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts?” Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness,...
Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From their conquest of Palestine in 1917 during World War I, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British controlled the territory by mandate, representing a distinct cultural period in Middle Eastern history. In Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the...
Israeli Folk Narratives
Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
The goals and challenges that face the people of Israel are vividly illustrated by the country’s many folk stories. Here Haya Bar-Itzhak presents these tales—gathered from the early settlers of the kibbutz, from immigrants who arrived in Israel after independence, and from ethnic groups—to create...
Comic Venus
Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
For many people the term “silent comedy” conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, Buster Keaton’s Stoneface, or Harold Lloyd hanging precariously from the side of a skyscraper. Even people who have never seen a silent film can recognize these comedians at a glance. But what about...
Lying in the River's Dark Bed
The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Lying in the River’s Dark Bed: The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler by Michael Delp is a collection of fifty-six poems that brings together two characters Delp has been perfecting for years: Deadman and the Mad Angler. The Deadman, a spirit that constantly shifts, is one part troublemaker,...
by Laura Kasischke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
In 1903, a preacher named Benjamin Purnell and five followers founded a colony called the House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where they prepared for eternal life by creating a heaven on earth. Housed in rambling mansions and surrounded by lush orchards and vineyards, the colony added a thousand...
by James V. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context.
by Zilka Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Sharp Blue Search of Flame is an exploration in poetry of a complex network of nuanced journeys into a variety of worlds. The searingly rich poems reflect Zilka Joseph’s own history of living in Eastern and Western cultures, as well as the influences of her Jewish Indian roots. Joseph’s free verse...
by Chris Dombrowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The second full-length collection from award-winning poet Chris Dombrowski, Earth Again transports readers to an imaginative world where identity is explored and expanded. With a mixture of long poems and shorter pieces, Dombrowski probes birth, death, sex, memory, and our blessed but treacherous engagement...