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.
Elia Kazan
Interviews
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
Mike Leigh
Interviews
Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies
Robert Altman
Interviews
Collected interviews with the unpredictable and controversial filmmaker of M.A.S.H., Nashville, and Short Cuts
Defining New Yorker Humor
A penetrating look into what really gave America’s most notable magazine its distinctive punch
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
Inside Peyton Place
The Life of Grace Metalious
The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town
Wildflowers of the Natchez Trace
A handy guide for identifying the luxuriant wildflowers along the most scenic trail of the Deep South
Steven Spielberg
Interviews
A collection of interviews charting Spielberg’s evolution from brash young filmmaker to blockbuster king to mature and meaningful film director
Autobiography as Activism
Three Black Women of the Sixties
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
Bret Harte
Prince and Pauper
A biography that charts the boom and bust of America’s first celebrity author, once Mark Twain’s chief rival in American literature
Country Churchyards
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
Understanding Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
For patients and caregivers an overview of the nature and treatments of inflammatory bowel disease
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
Collected interviews that reveal a man with a powerful mind, a wry sense of humor, and an unshakable commitment to justice
Peter Greenaway
Interviews
Twenty-one interviews with the controversial director of films such as Prospero’s Books and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Understanding Panic and Other Anxiety Disorders
A patient’s guide to panic disorders, panic attacks, and other stress-related maladies
Obituaries in American Culture
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
German Boy
A Refugee’s Story
A refugee child’s witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family’s debacle in war
Postcolonial Theory and the United States
Race, Ethnicity, and Literature
Accidental Ambassador Gordo
The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola
A biography of the notable Mexican American cartoonist and an appreciative history of his creation
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in North America