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.
The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture
How the incredible heroine has evolved and shaped television, film, comic books, and literature
Monsters in the Machine
Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II
How science fiction reinvigorated the horror film to express and soothe Cold War fears
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
The true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor
The Comics of Hergé
When the Lines Are Not So Clear
A wide-ranging critical engagement with the creator of Tintin
Music in Disney's Animated Features
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book
A composer’s brilliant study on how Walt Disney revolutionized the use of music in film
Campaigns and Hurricanes
A History of Presidential Visits to Mississippi
The definitive guide to presidential visits to Mississippi
Magnificent Obsession
The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics
The Blue Sky Boys
A tale of two North Carolina brothers whose old songs and vocal harmonies captivated southern radio audiences for generations
Conversations with John A. Williams
Interviews with the three-time winner of the American Book Award and author of The Man Who Cried I Am and Clifford’s Blues
Civil War Humor
A thorough account of the extraordinary breadth of comedic output during America’s Civil War
The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal’s
A playful look at one of Mississippi’s iconic landmarks
Drawn to Purpose
American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists
A study of the immense artistic achievements of women in American illustration
The Screen Is Red
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
A treatment of cinema’s long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism
New York State Folklife Reader
Diverse Voices
Over fifty years of folklore from the Empire State
Beyond Bombshells
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
A full exploration of the heroine in movies, comic books, television, and literature
Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
Twenty-First-Century Approaches
Thoughtful, practical essays on teaching a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer’s work to a wide range of classes
Margarethe von Trotta
Interviews
Three decades of interviews revealing von Trotta’s life in the film industry and the evolving roles of and opportunities provided to women over that time period
Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
Penetrating analysis of what it means in literature, film, animation, and advertising to act your age, or not
Michael Allred
Conversations
Collected interviews with the comics creator of Madman and iZombie
Sundays Down South
A Pastor's Stories
A revealing picture of southern character as seen in a minister’s recollections of his congregations
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.
Chronicle of a Camera
The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945–1972
A history of the lightweight workhorse camera that transformed postwar cinematography
Unveiling the Muse
The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans
The untold story of a powerful Mardi Gras tradition
Conversations with Percival Everett
Interviews with the author of erasure, God’s Country, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad
An international reassessment of the great writer’s work
Fannye Cook
Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist
A biography of Mississippi’s trailblazing female conservationist and scientist
Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
A colorful account of the history of folk music told through the images that sold the music
The Canadian Alternative
Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
A broad survey of all the inspirations of comics creation in Canada
Ed Brubaker
Conversations
Collected interviews with one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s
Forging the Past
Seth and the Art of Memory
A critical study of the extraordinary Canadian comics creator
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
How a radical constitution blocked racial progress and upended the class system
A Charlie Brown Religion
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz
The first spiritual biography of a misunderstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City
Telling Our Stories
Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
The definitive guide to two state-of-the-art museums—the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in December 2017, in celebration of the state’s bicentennial
New Orleans Remix
How New Orleans musicians perpetually renew a grand musical tradition from classical to jazz, funk, and beyond
High Cotton
Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev
Volume I
The first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from the Russian Grimm
The Comics of Joe Sacco
Journalism in a Visual World
The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
An examination of five visionary stage plays written and performed during the throes of the movement that shook America
Diagnosing Folklore
Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma
How the collision of folk understandings with medical definitions affect disability and stigma
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
A vivid canvas of how the black trickster affected the white canon
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
A study of the seminal nineteenth-century fiddle tune collection and its lasting impact
Fragile Grounds
Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries
A visual treasury of disappearing cemeteries and a call to preserve and document them
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
The preeminent scholar of proverbs addresses the immense cultural impact of proverbs worldwide
A Season of Night
New Orleans Life after Katrina
An account of life post-Katrina and a paean to shaken, but ever-alluring, New Orleans
The Limits of Loyalty
Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi
A reinterpretation of how ordinary citizens navigated life during wartime
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Case studies of Spanish, British, and French imperial ambitions
Conversations with Edmund White
Over thirty years of interviews with the award-winning author and scholar known for chronicling gay culture
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
The incredible story of the cofounder of Birdland, a force in jazz and pop, and one of music’s last great hustlers