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Virgin Territory

Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film

Edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald

A critical and in-depth investigation of how virginity is represented in film.

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Published: March 2010
ISBN: 9780814333181
$29.99
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Published: March 2010
ISBN: 9780814336953

Members of the Tribe

Native America in the Jewish Imagination

Rachel Rubinstein

A history of representations of American Indians in Jewish literature and popular media.

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Published: March 2010
ISBN: 9780814334348
$29.99
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Published: March 2010
ISBN: 9780814337004

Revolutionary Detroit

Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805

Edited by Denver Brunsman and Joel Stone

This essay collection highlights the rich cultural history of Detroit during the American revolutionary era as the frontier outpost shifted, in one generation, from French to British to American control.

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Published: November 2009
ISBN: 9780615321141
$12.95
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A Motor City Year

By John Sobczak
Foreword by Jeff Daniels

Photographs of the unique people, places, and events that make up a year in the life of Metropolitan Detroit.

Hardback
Published: September 2009
ISBN: 9780814334102
$39.95

In Babel's Shadow

Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Tuska Benes

A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.

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Published: August 2008
ISBN: 9780814333044
$56.99
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Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale

Edited by Stephen Benson

Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.

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Published: June 2008
ISBN: 9780814332542
$31.99
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Published: June 2008
ISBN: 9780814335826

Some Day Your Witch Will Come

Kay Stone

Collects nearly thirty years of major work by noted writer and folklore scholar Kay Stone.

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Published: June 2008
ISBN: 9780814332863
$31.99

Under Fire

Childhood in the Shadow of War

Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough and Andrea Immel

Investigates the effects of war on children and children’s literature.

Paperback
Published: May 2008
ISBN: 9780814334041
$29.99

The Child in the World

Embodiment, Time, and Language in Early Childhood

Eva M. Simms

A dialogue between developmental research and continental philosophy that illuminates how children experience the world.

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Published: April 2008
ISBN: 9780814333754
$32.99
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Published: April 2008
ISBN: 9780814338407

Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism

Political Perspectives on Images and Culture

Charlotte Schoell-Glass

A landmark study on Aby Warburg’s life and work, translated into English.

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Published: March 2008
ISBN: 9780814332559
$56.99
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Contact Zones

Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema

Sheila J. Petty

Explores the contributions of black diasporic filmmakers and thinkers to contemporary artistic and theoretical discourses.

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Published: January 2008
ISBN: 9780814330999
$34.99
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Published: January 2008
ISBN: 9780814339909

Brothers and Beasts

An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales

Edited by Kate Bernheimer
With a Foreword by Maria Tatar and an Afterword by Jack Zipes

Breaks new ground in fairy-tale studies by offering male writers a chance to reflect on their relationships to fairy tales.

Paperback
Published: October 2007
ISBN: 9780814332672
$21.99

New Zealand Filmmakers

Edited by Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray

The most thorough study on the filmmakers who have defined New Zealand cinema from its origins to its current successes.

Paperback
Published: August 2007
ISBN: 9780814330173
$37.99

Disciplining Germany

Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War

Jaimey Fisher

A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with their Nazi past, negotiate Allied occupation, and construct postwar German identity.

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Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814333297
$52.99
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Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814337431
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Connecting the Dots

Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project

A collection of varied reflections on the Heidelberg Project, a Detroit art installation that has garnered international acclaim and has been the focus of local controversy.

Hardback
Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814333204
$19.99

The Arabian Nights Reader

Edited by Ulrich Marzolph

An authoritative guide to research inspired by the Arabian Nights, containing sixteen influential essays.

Paperback
Published: September 2006
ISBN: 9780814332597
$32.99

Representing the Rural

Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land

Edited by Catherine Fowler and Gillian Helfield

A comprehensive and in-depth examination of the role of rural space in the cinema, contributing needed analysis to existing work on space, place, and identity in film.

Paperback
Published: September 2006
ISBN: 9780814333051
$32.99
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Published: September 2006
ISBN: 9780814335628

After Images

Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung

Eric Downing

Examining literature and cultural theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume considers connections between photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effects on conceptions of the self and Bildung.

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Published: August 2006
ISBN: 9780814333013
$59.99

The Spell of Italy

Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe

Richard Block

A study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: March 2006
ISBN: 9780814332696
$54.95
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Published: March 2006
ISBN: 9780814335703

Fabricating Pleasure

Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830

Karin Wurst

Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814331316
$62.99

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