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Wayne State University Press

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.

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Gene Tierney

Star of Hollywood's Home Front

Will Scheibel

Hollywood’s Gene Tierney, the lasting impact of her wartime and postwar films, and her continuing legacy.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814348208
$84.99
Paperback
Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814348215
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814348222

Psych Murders

Stephanie Heit

Experimental writing that takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care.

Paperback
Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814349878
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814349885

The Good Place

Erin Giannini

A light take on the darkly comic show The Good Place and its lasting impact on American television culture.

Paperback
Published: August 2022
ISBN: 9780814348659
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2022
ISBN: 9780814348666

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kendall R. Phillips

Revisiting a televised narrative that focused not on the monster, but on the monster hunter.

Paperback
Published: August 2022
ISBN: 9780814349045
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2022
ISBN: 9780814349052

The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition

Sam Greenlee with an Introduction by Natiki Hope Pressley

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.

Paperback
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349571
$19.99

The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition

An explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.

Paperback
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349571
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349977

More than Parcels

Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos

Edited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz

Essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349236
$92.99
Paperback
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349229
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349243
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Raising Bean

Essays on Laughing and Living

W. S. Penn

Essays from a Native American grandfather to help navigate life’s difficult experiences.

Paperback
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349304
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349311
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Hadha Baladuna

Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging

Edited by Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell

Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023 by the Library of Michigan! A vibrant collection of essays and poems exploring the diverse range of the Arab American experience, as writers explore the notions of home, belonging, and social mobility.

Paperback
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349250
$25.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349267

Far Company

Poems by Cindy Hunter Morgan

Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long gone.

Paperback
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349526
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349533
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Fear and Other Stories

Chana Blankshteyn
Translated by Anita Norich

Translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s stories depicting the tumultuous interwar years in Europe.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349281
$92.99
Paperback
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349274
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349298

The Plum Tree Blossoms Even in Winter

M. Roy Wilson

A leader’s journey of identity, resilience, and triumph.

Hardback
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349809
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349816

American Television during a Television Presidency

Edited by Karen McNally

Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349366
$94.99
Paperback
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349359
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349373

Mothers of Invention

Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor

Edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar

Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814348536
$94.99
Paperback
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814348529
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814348543

The Outer Limits

Joanne Morreale

Provides a history and criticism of an important disrupting force in early science-fiction television programming.

Paperback
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347454
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347461

Detroit's Wayne State University Law School

Future Leaders in the Legal Community

Alan Schenk

Account of the critical role students played in the history of an urban public law school.

Hardback
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347614
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347621

Woman Up

Invoking Feminism in Quality Television

Julia Havas

Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814346556
$94.99
Paperback
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814346563
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814346570

You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Lyrical, hilarious, and heartbreaking collection exploring Asian American identity, love, community, and power.

Paperback
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814349410
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814349427

The Americans

Linda Mizejewski

Explores The Americans as a groundbreaking series that brilliantly merged the spy genre and domestic melodrama.

Paperback
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814347430
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814347447

Cannibalizing Queer

Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015

João Nemi Neto

Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346099
$94.99
Paperback
Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346105
$42.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346112

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