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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Clockwork Rhetoric

The Language and Style of Steampunk

Edited by Barry Brummett
University Press of Mississippi

How the language of the imaginatively styled movement attracts followers to steampunk aesthetic

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The Comic Book Film Adaptation

Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre

University Press of Mississippi

The first study of how the comic book moved to the center of Hollywood film production in the twenty-first century

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Trouble in Goshen

Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South

University Press of Mississippi

The untold story of three New Deal cooperative farms in the most economically challenged places in the South

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The Port Royal Experiment

A Case Study in Development

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the emancipated islands of the Carolina coast and how their history sheds light on the difficulties of nation building

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Parchman

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Powerful first-hand witness to the prison experience in Mississippi’s sprawling penitentiary farm

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Dan Duryea

Heel with a Heart

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of a devoted family man best known for his roles as abusive villains

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Conversations with Michael Chabon

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

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Conversations with William Gibson

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History

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Expressions of Place

The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape

University Press of Mississippi

Contemporary artists revealing the state’s urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields

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Madeline Kahn

Being the Music, A Life

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography of the great comedic actress and star of stage and screen

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Bertrand Tavernier

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the director who is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave

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Lucky Dogs

From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond

University Press of Mississippi

An insider's account of the iconic hotdog cart business and its role in the French Quarter and the world

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The Mississippi Secession Convention

Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865

University Press of Mississippi

The first examination of the entire convention and the men who deliberated there

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She Could Be Chaplin!

The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length appreciation of one of the most important comediennes of the silent film era

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To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

University Press of Mississippi

A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice

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Susan Sontag

The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated

University Press of Mississippi

An intimate portrait of the famed writer, director, and activist

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Pelican Road

A Novel

University Press of Mississippi

The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad

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Outsider Art

Visionary Worlds and Trauma

University Press of Mississippi

An unparalleled exploration of the power of art and the impulse of creation

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Mississippians in the Great War

Selected Letters

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating collection of correspondence from soldiers, nurses, and relief workers during World War I

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Medievalist Comics and the American Century

University Press of Mississippi

Why so many American comics fans avidly follow medieval heroes

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Inventing George Whitefield

Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough reckoning of the evolving ideas and legacy of a founding force in American evangelism

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Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest

Fifty Pieces from the Road

University Press of Mississippi

A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original “Boys on the Bus”

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A Thousand Cuts

The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies

University Press of Mississippi

The colorful, compulsive, secretive history of famous and infamous film fiends

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The Land of Rowan Oak

An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary photographic documentary of the wild and cultivated plants and landscape of Faulkner’s inspirational writing sanctuary

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Win the Race or Die Trying

Uncle Earl's Last Hurrah

University Press of Mississippi

How one of the last Louisiana Longs escaped a mental institution and died after winning election to Congress

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Big Jim Eastland

The Godfather of Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of a powerful Mississippi senator rife with contradictions

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Chocolate Surrealism

Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean

University Press of Mississippi

A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences

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Delta Rainbow

The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a plantation heiress who threw aside convention, joined the Marines, and fought for civil rights

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The Dixie Limited

Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence

Edited by M. Thomas Inge
University Press of Mississippi

A dazzling collection of writers worldwide on the massive authority of the Nobel laureate

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Faulkner and Film

University Press of Mississippi

A collection exploring the extensive connections between the Nobel laureate’s work and cinema

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Myself and the World

A Biography of William Faulkner

University Press of Mississippi

A concise, readable biography of the Nobel laureate who defined southern literature

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Island at War

Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War

University Press of Mississippi

An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort

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Musical Life in Guyana

History and Politics of Controlling Creativity

University Press of Mississippi

A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media

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City of Remembering

A History of Genealogy in New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

A look at the passionate pursuits intersecting family and public histories

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Pioneering Cartoonists of Color

University Press of Mississippi

The marvelous recovery of neglected Black artists and their awesome body of comics creativity

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Bars, Blues, and Booze

Stories from the Drink House

University Press of Mississippi

True accounts from musicians, bar owners, and regulars at the crossroads of good times and despair

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So the Heffners Left McComb

By Hodding Carter II; Introduction by Trent Brown; Preface by Oliver Emmerich
University Press of Mississippi

The shocking tale of a white Mississippi family ostracized and devastated after breaking bread with civil rights workers

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Things like the Truth

Out of My Later Years

University Press of Mississippi

A vibrant, passionate engagement with the transcendent joys of family and aging

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My Triumph over Prejudice

A Memoir

University Press of Mississippi

How a black Mississippian navigated a tumultuous childhood, married a white civil rights worker, and rallied to transform her life

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Projections of Passing

Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960

University Press of Mississippi

How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated, and sometimes alleviated American fears

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The Amazing Crawfish Boat

University Press of Mississippi

The true story of how a network of Cajun and German farmers and fabricators invented a traditional amphibious boat

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Woody Allen

Interviews, Revised and Updated

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five year span of Woody Allen’s career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as well as his most critically acclaimed works

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Called to Heal the Brokenhearted

Stories from Kairos Prison Ministry International

University Press of Mississippi

How a ministry in the largest prison in Louisiana and across the country transforms lives

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Van Johnson

MGM's Golden Boy

University Press of Mississippi

The only full-length biography of this immensely popular screen star of the 1940s and 1950s

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Sitting Pretty

The Life and Times of Clifton Webb

University Press of Mississippi

The autobiography of one of the top moneymakers in the history of Twentieth Century-Fox

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Krzysztof Kieślowski

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the Polish filmmaker who garnered international acclaim (including an Oscar nomination) for his Three Colors trilogy of films and was proclaimed one of Europe’s most important filmmakers by many critics

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Willie

The Life of Willie Morris

University Press of Mississippi

A fresh look at the life of a revered southern writer and editor

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Three Years in Wonderland

The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park

University Press of Mississippi

The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America’s iconic theme park

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Little Red Readings

Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A compelling case for the need to analyze children’s literature from a Marxist perspective

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Country Boys and Redneck Women

New Essays in Gender and Country Music

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre’s power and mystique

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