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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Alan Ball

Conversations

Edited by Thomas Fahy
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood

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Gloria Swanson

Ready for Her Close-Up

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of the Queen of Hollywood and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism

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Baba Yaga

The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales

University Press of Mississippi

A beautiful illustrated collection of fairy tales about the most iconic and active of Russian magical characters

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The Dragon's Blood

Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples'

University Press of Mississippi

A new intertextual reading that shows Welty confronting one of western literature’s major forces—the indomitable hero

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Mobilizing for the Common Good

The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins

University Press of Mississippi

Essays on the famed activist and preacher, among the first to call for relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution in a post-civil rights America

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Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967

University Press of Mississippi

The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi’s Hill Country blues

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Fame to Infamy

Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace

Edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen; Foreword by Roy F. Fox; Afterword by Jack Lule
University Press of Mississippi

Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons

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The Superhero Reader

University Press of Mississippi

A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre

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Anthony Minghella

Interviews

Edited by Mario Falsetto
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain

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Scotty and Elvis

Aboard the Mystery Train

University Press of Mississippi

The true life story of Elvis’s original guitarist, the masterful Scotty Moore

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Une Belle Maison

The Lombard Plantation House in New Orleans's Bywater

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary look at the life, decay, and restoration of a plantation home

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Folklore Recycled

Old Traditions in New Contexts

University Press of Mississippi

How the study of folklore has moved beyond oral traditions into creative realms where it is repurposed and transformed

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Made in Mexico

Tradition, Tourism, and Political Fermant in Oaxaca

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the interplay between local producers and consuming tourists in a volatile state

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Second Line Rescue

Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita

University Press of Mississippi

How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when their institutions failed

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Witness to Reconstruction

Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the defining role played by one woman writer who covered the South during Reconstruction

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Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic

His Final, Great Speech

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the course and content of the prophetic Memphis declaration

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Jazz Diplomacy

Promoting America in the Cold War Era

University Press of Mississippi

How America used jazz musicians to carry the anti-communist message when politics failed

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Southern Frontier Humor

New Approaches

Edited by Ed Piacentino
University Press of Mississippi

New approaches and new considerations of authors beyond Mark Twain and into the present day

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Rethinking the Irish in the American South

Beyond Rounders and Reelers

University Press of Mississippi

A fresh look at a multifaceted minority culture

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Neil Jordan

Interviews

Edited by Carole Zucker
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the director of The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, and The Butcher Boy

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