Wisconsin Film Studies

Wisconsin Film Studies offers works by emerging and eminent scholars focusing on deserving areas of film study. The series presents books whose fresh scholarship or perspective will make an enduring contribution to film literature. The range is broad, and manuscripts on all periods and national film cultures are invited.

The editor invites manuscripts and proposals that focus on important aspects of American and international film, including biographies and autobiographies of key artists (especially directors, screenwriters, and actors); major films; national identity; neglected history; and political investigation.

The series will consider a variety of formats: broad overviews; specific topics; thematic volumes of essays (original or collected on related subjects); anthologies primarily for classroom use; and suggestions for reprinting classic or first-time paperback editions of major works in the field.

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Hollywood's Unofficial Film Corps
American Jewish Moviemakers and the War Effort
Michael Berkowitz

“Breathes new life into a densely covered period of history and shows us that Hollywood was even more deeply involved with the US government than we previously understood.”
—Chris Yogerst, author of Hollywood Hates Hitler!

Peerless: cover depicting a photo of young Rouben Mamoulian, wearing circular, thick-rimmed spectacles, staring directly into the camera. The photo is tinted teal with contracting orange title text written across the middle of the page.

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Peerless
Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway
Kurt Jensen

“Jensen’s fresh, sparkling prose allows Mamoulian to emerge as the type of suave, charming, larger-than-life character so often portrayed in his films. Jensen’s thoughtful use of Mamoulian’s own words in journals and interviews allows this work to serve as the intimate, lively memoir the great director never completed.”
—Cynthia Brideson, author of He’s Got Rhythm: The Life and Times of Gene Kelly

Jean-Luc Godard
The Permanent Revolutionary
Bert Rebhandl
Spring 2023

Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life
Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
Yuxin Ma
Fall 2022

Continental Films
French Cinema under German Control
Christine Leteux
Fall 2022

A Cinema of Obsession
The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling
Mariah Larsson
Fall 2019

Six Turkish Filmmakers
Laurence Raw
Fall 2017

Giant
George Stevens, a Life on Film
Marilyn Ann Moss
Fall 2015

The Many Lives of Cy Endfield
Film Noir, the Blacklist, and Zulu
Brian Neve
Spring 2015

Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Sabine Hake
Spring 2012

Luis Buñuel
The Red Years, 1929–1939
Román Gubern and Paul Hammond
Fall 2011

Tough as Nails
The Life and Films of Richard Brooks
Douglass K. Daniel
Spring 2011

Glenn Ford
A Life
Peter Ford
Spring 2011

In and Out of Hollywood
A Biographer’s Memoir
Charles Higham
Fall 2009

Escape Artist
The Life and Films of John Sturges
Glenn Lovell
Fall 2008

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History
Walter Mirisch, Forewords by Sidney Poitier and Elmore Leonard
Spring 2008

Depth of Field
Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History
Edited by Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, and Glenn Perusek
Spring 2006

Marked Women
Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema
Russell Campbell
Fall 2005