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Queer Enchantments

Examines director Jacques Demy's use of the fairy tale as a means to explore issues of gender, sexuality, and class.

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Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

Considers Montgomery Clift's star persona, film roles, and performances through the lens of queer theory.

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Crusader for Justice

A complete biography of one of the seminal figures in American jurisprudence.

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Cinema and Community

Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema.

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Appetites and Anxieties

Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films.

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Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the World

Collects more than fifty versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story from a wide range of countries and cultures.

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Documenting the Documentary

Essays on important documentary films from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives.

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American Salvage

A lush and rowdy collection of stories set in a rural Michigan landscape, where wildlife, jobs, and ways of life are vanishing.

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American City

A stunning tribute to Detroit’s architectural heritage, this book features 90 full-color photographs of the city’s most impressive buildings.

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Leaving Springfield

A study of the landmark television program The Simpsons which focuses on the show’s dual roles as subversive political satire and mainstream mass media hit.

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The Buildings of Detroit

The definitive volume on Detroit's architectural history, from the 1700s to the end of the twentieth century.

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The Hebrew Goddess

A revised edition containing new chapters on the Shekhina.

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The Spook Who Sat by the Door

An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.

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"My Brave Mechanics"

An important and little-known chapter of Michigan’s Civil War history, drawn from the letters, diaries, and regimental records of the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics regiment.

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Earth Again

Stirring meditations on living with a strong connection to the environment, both physical and psychological.

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Practicing to Walk Like a Heron

Poems that delight in discovering the comic, sorrowful, empathic, and spiritual in what is often overlooked.

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The World of a Few Minutes Ago

Stories in the realistic tradition of lives overlooked, voices unheard, and characters trying to overcome and transcend confining circumstances.

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allegiance

A sharp, haunting, and lyrical collection that attempts to understand what we owe the spaces we inhabit.

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The Light Between

Poems of stylistic and emotional range that journey widely through love’s losses and connections.

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Booker T & Them

A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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The Way North

A stunning collection of previously unpublished works that provide snapshots of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles. The Press disseminates research, advances education, and serves the local community while expanding the international reputation of the Press and the University.