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.
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s
Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?
An expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror movies
Hip Hop on Film
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history
Drawing from Life
Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memories in autobiographical comics
Comics and Narration
How all the elements in the grammar of comics merge to create a storyline
Comics and Language
Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form
A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studies
Chester Brown
Conversations
Collected interviews with the unconventional comics creator of Yummy Fur (1983–1994), comics memoirs such as The Playboy (1991/1992) and I Never Liked You (1991-1994), and his best-selling memoir Paying for It (2011)
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities
Hearths of Darkness
The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition
A thorough study of a movie genre that reached its cultural zenith in the 1970s but remains influential today
Time in Television Narrative
Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming
How shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television
Insider Histories of Cartooning
Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators
From a cartoonist and a veteran writer on the history of comics, a joyous reclamation of cartooning geniuses
The Struggle for America's Promise
Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
An examination of extraordinary uses and abuses of an American ideal during a time of perceived prosperity
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Wide-ranging discussions with the comics artist known for the groundbreaking sci-fi satire American Flagg!
Dave Sim
Conversations
Interviews with the creator of Cerebus
Autobiographical Comics
Life Writing in Pictures
A fruitful reading of the best North American and European autobiographical comics
Song of My Life
A Biography of Margaret Walker
The first biography of the much admired author of the novel Jubilee and the poem “For My People”
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
A comprehensive exploration of the fascinating ecology and history of one of the South’s most complex and thriving estuaries
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
A history of overreaching, gridlock, intrigue, and the final catastrophic results along America’s most vulnerable coastline
Japanese Animation
East Asian Perspectives
Never before available in English, East Asian critiques and discussion of a powerful Japanese export and popular art form
Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson
How the tangles of nineteenth-century justice ensnared an itinerant worker in Louisiana
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities
How the image of the militant guerilla helped and hindered aims of African American and Asian American power movements
The Search for Good Wine
From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table
One hundred amusing, practical essays on how to enjoy and afford good wines by the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine
David Fincher
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Social Network
Ed King's Mississippi
Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer
An extraordinary photographic documentary from behind the scenes during the struggle for civil rights
Walt before Mickey
Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928
The untold story of ten critical, formative years in the great producer’s life
Conversations with Jerome Charyn
Interviews with the author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Once Upon a Droshky, and The Man Who Grew Younger
A Mickey Mouse Reader
The first anthology to chart the Disney character’s ascent to the rank of global icon
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
The only volume dedicated entirely to the military history of an embattled Deep South state
Mississippi in the Civil War
The Home Front
A full examination of a population's passion and defeat
Conversations with Steve Martin
Collected interviews that provide insight into Martin’s numerous accomplishments as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the last forty years
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a country music masterpiece
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation
Twain's Brand
Humor in Contemporary American Culture
A study of what made Mark Twain a pioneer of American comedy today
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist outlook
Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
Chronicles of a Modern Woman
The most thorough gathering of the great American writer’s lively correspondence
Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
The role of women’s bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature
Rolland Golden
Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter
An extraordinary recollection of how an artist lived and worked in the French Quarter before its gentrification
Mayor Victor H. Schiro
New Orleans in Transition, 1961–1970
A biography of the last mayor of New Orleans to get things done
Fear and What Follows
The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, A Memoir
The story of a working-class, Southern Baptist upbringing that transformed into a nightmare of bigotry and bullying in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Conversations with Jay Parini
Interviews with the author of The Last Station, Why Poetry Matters, Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, and The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
Marilyn Monroe
A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
The first biography to focus on the American icon’s acting craft
Delta Dogs
New photographs from the beloved creator of Delta Land
Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century
A critical study of Fairbanks’s acting career and his brand as the ultimate American
Joan Blondell
A Life between Takes
The first major biography of an actress with a long and lustrous career in film and television
Faulkner and Formalism
Returns of the Text
Essays that explore current scholarship on the Nobel Laureate’s work
Transatlantic Roots Music
Folk, Blues, and National Identities
Essays that track identity and authenticity in blues and folk music that crossed the ocean
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions
Perspectives on Percival Everett
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output
Legend-Tripping Online
Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat
How the Internet crystallizes fringe theories into amazing realities
Eudora Welty and Surrealism
A study of the profound influence of surrealism on the writer’s craft
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
Innocence by Association
How the civil rights movement changed the careers of four white American writers as well as the literary establishment