An analysis of how modernity and modernism complicated local visions of art and society

Conversations with top animators, designers, and voice actors who worked directly with film pioneer Walt Disney

Nineteen interviews conducted over the past two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond with the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day

An assessment of the cultural mix of slave and slave holder

An exploration of the history and intent behind the words of a great American folk singer

An inventive anthology that uses comics to explore the tenets of philosophy

How players and promoters from one Louisiana locale created unforgettable music

Talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra

Interviews with the film critic and director who was a key figure in the French New Wave

A story of naval battles in fire and ice and a merchant seaman’s flight to freedom from Soviet captivity during World War II

An indispensable volume and standard course reading on the representation of folklore

How Jamaica fashioned a tourist beacon from reggae music and the Rastafarian revolution

Essays on William Faulkner’s work from foreign perspectives

An indispensible look at the encounter between Native Americans and the Christianizing forces of missionary teachers

A study of a literary master’s manipulation of readers through use of ingenious narrative devices

A wonderful tribute to Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields and the art of flimflam comedy

Drawn from Native American autobiographical accounts, a study revealing white society’s program of civilizing American Indian schoolchildren

A collection of interrelated essays on Walker Percy by one of Percy’s most perceptive and sensitive critics

Essays that explore Faulkner’s relationship to land, people, and the environment

Photographs that capture the landscapes and monuments of two Civil War battlefields

An overview of the many American perspectives in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination

An exploration of the integral role of folk traditions in southern life

A retrospective of a masterful artist’s passion for an American roadside icon

The first in-depth study of ghost stories from the haunts of academia

A journey to the state’s most intriguing spots

A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages

The history of a legal fight in which an all-white jury awarded African Americans a North Carolina estate

Interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

A drive-by testimony to southern evangelical wit and wisdom

A biography of one of the first women to achieve international success writing science fiction

Interviews with the famed director of Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, The Seventh Seal, Saraband, and other films

The first-of-its kind anthology of folk and fairy tales from the United States

A revisionist study that rejects the time-honored argument that the Great War was the cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it

An inside look at a big city coroner’s office where investigators probe the mysteries of death

Interviews with the co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The Uncanny X-men

Haunting, firsthand accounts and photographs from the aftermath of the hurricane

Essays that explore how comic books inspire film and create new realms of visual art

The first book to focus on the integration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

The first comprehensive study of the close ties between the American South and the Caribbean

The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s

A trailblazing study showing how for over a century minority authors have defied the dominance of white identity in American culture

The Depression-era politics of strikers’ songs that called for solidarity and action

The history of a university professor’s daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964

A vibrant and varied look at African American songs and the history behind the lyrics

A comprehensive guide to the translations and tribal origins of five hundred intriguing designations

A call to recognize Marxism’s underestimated influence on the course of African American letters