The singular vision of a courageous Mississippi activist

Collected interviews and articles with one of early Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter-directors and the first woman to direct a feature film

The definitive biography of the great band leader and New Orleans jazz performer

Collected interviews with the director of such films as Harlan County, U.S.A. and Gun Fight

A record catch of place, lore, tradition, and family connection with environment

The first take on America’s outstanding film reel appeals to African American dignity and service

An exploration of whites posing as Native Americans from nineteenth-century literature to comic books

Essays from innovative, leading scholars covering the gamut of the civil rights movement

A captivating account of the turbulent journey from box-office disaster to classic American road film

The first major biography of the influential, visionary Disney animator

An explication of master works by one of comics studies’ most renowned scholars

An analysis of children’s rights in literature

An incomparable resource to understand the historical role of the federal judiciary in a Deep South state

An original study on the little-known but highly influential Russianmagazine Krokodil

Collected interviews the self-titled “quadra schizoid” writer who is best known for his novella Legends of the Fall

Tracking the surprising rise of the British superhero

Tales of a people’s great, disgraceful, and mundane constitutional encounters

Over forty years of interviews with one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century, an American original who redefined the picture book and changed children’s literature—and its readers—forever

The first edited volume to juxtapose these female alternative comics artists

From the steeple to the stable to the goal posts and dinner table, a homily on southern religiosity

A perceptive study of a bold, prescient voice in Latino comics

A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco’s Spain

How narratives about mass migration from the South reconstructed southern identity

Collected interviews with the beloved author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, but who is best known for her Newbery Award–winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time

The first comprehensive examination of young female protagonists in early American comics

Why New Orleans is considered America’s distinctly French city

A unique exploration of adaptation theory and how one dramatic visual style affects another

Collected interviews covering over fifty years of this acclaimed and controversial Irish author’s career

A legendary investigative journalist’s powerful reckoning of fact, fiction, and wild conspiracies about the great crusader’s murder

A long-overdue study that samples all the genres, sounds, and contributions of the Greek music diaspora

A lively, full history of Memphis during the Prohibition era

A history of African American childbirth experience and midwifery’s renewed value in combating health disparities

Collected interviews with the film director of Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the director behind Lost; Mission: Impossible III; Star Trek; and Star Wars: The Force Awakens

A legendary investigative journalist’s powerful reckoning of fact, fiction, and wild conspiracies about the great crusader’s murder

Over two decades worth of interviews with an American author who skillfully addresses the merits and drawbacks of Eastern and Western cultures

How comics, graphic novels, and sacred texts work in concert to expand our sense of the holy

The definitive book on The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling

The updated fourth edition of the fundamental blues travel guide

A study of the history of desegregation in Mississippi schools