The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.

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Elia Kazan

Interviews

Edited by William Baer
University Press of Mississippi

Forty years of interviews with the theater and film director whose reputation has often been overshadowed by his testimony against fellow film industry professionals during the 1952 HUAC hearings

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Mike Leigh

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies

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Robert Altman

Interviews

Edited by David Sterritt
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the unpredictable and controversial filmmaker of M.A.S.H., Nashville, and Short Cuts

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Defining New Yorker Humor

University Press of Mississippi

A penetrating look into what really gave America’s most notable magazine its distinctive punch

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Conversations with William S. Burroughs

Edited by Allen Hibbard
University Press of Mississippi
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Inside Peyton Place

The Life of Grace Metalious

University Press of Mississippi

The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town

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Wildflowers of the Natchez Trace

University Press of Mississippi

A handy guide for identifying the luxuriant wildflowers along the most scenic trail of the Deep South

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Steven Spielberg

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews charting Spielberg’s evolution from brash young filmmaker to blockbuster king to mature and meaningful film director

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Autobiography as Activism

Three Black Women of the Sixties

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the Black Power narratives of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown as instruments for radical social change

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Bret Harte

Prince and Pauper

University Press of Mississippi

A biography that charts the boom and bust of America’s first celebrity author, once Mark Twain’s chief rival in American literature

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Country Churchyards

By Eudora Welty; Introduction by Elizabeth Spencer
University Press of Mississippi

Eudora Welty’s poignant photographs of Mississippi graveyards and memorial stones paired with Elizabeth Spencer’s exploration of the meanings the photographs yield and the light they shine onto Welty’s fiction

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Understanding Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

University Press of Mississippi

For patients and caregivers an overview of the nature and treatments of inflammatory bowel disease

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Conversations with Salman Rushdie

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews that reveal a man with a powerful mind, a wry sense of humor, and an unshakable commitment to justice

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Peter Greenaway

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Twenty-one interviews with the controversial director of films such as Prospero’s Books and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

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Understanding Panic and Other Anxiety Disorders

University Press of Mississippi

A patient’s guide to panic disorders, panic attacks, and other stress-related maladies

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Obituaries in American Culture

University Press of Mississippi

What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present, based upon a study of more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930

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German Boy

A Refugee’s Story

University Press of Mississippi

A refugee child’s witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family’s debacle in war

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Postcolonial Theory and the United States

Race, Ethnicity, and Literature

University Press of Mississippi
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Accidental Ambassador Gordo

The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of the notable Mexican American cartoonist and an appreciative history of his creation

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Black-Jewish Relations on Trial

Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in North America

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