A collection of interviews with the prolific Austro-Hungarian-born director known for challenging the status quo in Hollywood throughout his trailblazing career directing films like The Moon is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder

An exploration of two sisters’ writings that emphasizes Jamaica from a local perspective

The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters

A kaleidoscope of creativity explodes on the page from one of the South’s most underappreciated artists

An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz

An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz

An important update of Alan Lomax’s standard-setting Cantometrics system, the first to characterize and classify the mighty instrument of the human voice

A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South

A thorough explication and revelation of the literary power in blues-fueled songwriting

A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice

A brilliant tour of the bookshelf and galleries that inspired one of the most literate, sophisticated, and wildly funny graphic masters of our time

The first collection of critical essays to explore the Georgia writer’s vast work and activism

The first in-depth study of one of Marvel’s most successful and culturally impactful films

Expressive reminders of the power and spiritual pull of the natural world

How the hardscrabble borderland frontier of the Ozarks nurtured zones of creativity, community, and cults

A study of nineteenth-century young adult literature that refocuses the history of girls’ books and female adolescence in the United States and Germany

Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during the civil rights movement

How eleven institutions remained open and maintained the mission of higher education during a national cataclysm

270 musical examples plus biographies and photographs completing a vibrant picture of Mississippi’s fiddle tradition

Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, author, and actor known for creating the Family Trilogy of plays and appearing in many films like The Right Stuff, Fool for Love, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

A unique historical examination of Haitian Vodou’s political and religious origins

A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother

An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation’s worst storms

An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I

A deep exploration of children’s play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality

How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC

A close analysis of southern women playwrights

How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties

Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana

A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field

Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation

Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for The Walking Dead andInvincible

A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined

The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean

A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps

A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion

Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century

A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel

The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works

The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s