Wayne Press: 446 books

Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates...

Examines the innovative approach to genre, aesthetics, narrative, and the representation of masculinity in the television series Angel.

A social, cultural, historical, and institutional analysis of the classic original series The Fugitive.

A feminist analysis of the “cinema of uncertainty” through an examination of the crime serials of Louis Feuillade and the work of actress Musidora.

A reissued classic that examines the structure and themes of each of Hitchcock’s British feature films.

With its fast and furious dialogue, crackling wit, and political savvy, The West Wing became appointment TV for millions during its seven-season run between 1999 and 2006. The behind-the-scenes ensemble drama about Washington politics premiered on the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, was the first...

New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s most memorable quotes.

In May 1933, a young man named Rudolf Schwab fled Nazi-occupied Germany. His departure allegedly came at the insistence of a close friend who later joined the Party. Schwab eventually arrived in South Africa, one of the few countries left where Jews could seek refuge, and years later, resumed a relationship...

English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.

In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing...

The Civil War letters of a young Wisconsin soldier, previously published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1920–1922, are made available for the first time to a wide audience.

Collects leading scholars’ insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater.

A significant and contemporary study of director Howard Hawks by influential film critic Robin Wood, reprinted with a new introduction.

Examines the full run of Sex and the City and its production background, place in television history, innovations to the genre, and reception.