Books published by Wayne State University Press

The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. This title considers the history of the American blockbuster - the large-scale, high-cost film - as it evolved from the 1890s.

This book aims to give the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema their due. The collection of eighteen essays examines a many films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns.

How do we remember persons, objects, and events? This volume explores the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts. The authors show how memory is shaped, and how it operates in uniting society and creating images, pointing to the relationship between memory and culture.

A collection of essays on Jane Campion, filmmaker. It analyzes Campion's close relationship with literature and argues that the singular vision in her literary adaptations stems from her New Zealand background and her personal mythology.

Presenting one of the most momentous conflicts in the history of Western civilization, this book should allow students to assess the controversial issues on both sides of this historical and political event. The authors provide critical commentary, and place the writings in a historical context.

This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include: portrayals of women in the Hebrew bible; the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity; and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.

Highlighting the interaction between myth and artist, word and image, Jacob Nyenhuis presents here a catalogue of the works of British artist Michael Ayrton, one that aims to enlighten Ayrton's British folowing while introducing him to an American audience.

Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans - almost 25 percent of the black population in Harlem in 1920 - and their pivotal role in the literary, cultural, and political events shaping the Harlem Renaissance.

Israel Zangwill was Anglo Jewry's renowned writer. Uniting Zangwill's three plays and containing an in-depth introduction by the author, this volume includes a biography of Zangwill that pertains to these works and situates them within the Anglo-American theater of the time.