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.
Working-Class Comic Book Heroes
Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics
The first book to tackle the blue-collar hero and working-class creators
Reading Lessons in Seeing
Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel
How embedded methods of creation dynamically affect meaning in comics
Mississippi John Hurt
His Life, His Times, His Blues
The first biography of the blues revival’s most influential and authentic musician
Conversations with Will D. Campbell
The first collection of interviews with the preacher, activist, and author of Brother to a Dragonfly and Forty Acres and a Goat
Forty Acres and a Goat
A call with no steeple from the preacher with no pulpit
The Comics of Charles Schulz
The Good Grief of Modern Life
An unparalleled gathering of research devoted to one of the world’s most influential comic strips
Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical
How the preeminent Broadway composer bridged the gap between Rodgers and Hammerstein and postmodernism
Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
Extraordinary insight into Creoles of color and their religious culture
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults
A Collection of Critical Essays
An examination of the tremendous influence and power of US comics for youth in the twenty-first century
The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson
The journey of an innovative musical legend who fused Latin sounds and jazz
The 10 Cent War
Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II
The story of how the comic book industry anticipated the fight against fascism and helped sustain America’s war effort
Deep South Dispatch
Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist
A compelling memoir from the front lines of the civil rights movement
Mississippi Writers
Reflections of Childhood and Youth: Volume III: Poetry
Poetry recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
No Small Thing
The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
A history that redefines the beginning of the fight for black suffrage
Rencontres sur le Mississipi, 1682-1763
For French-language students, a reader of authentic texts from the period of French influence in the lower Mississippi Valley
Southern Splendor
Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South
An illustrated exploration of the legacies and restoration of historic antebellum homes in the South
A Past That Won't Rest
Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Incredible photos documenting the struggle for social change in Mississippi
Discovering Cat Island
Photographs and History
A visually stunning photographic tour of Cat Island and its many historical sites
Brother to a Dragonfly
The National Book Award-nominated memoir of a preacher, author, and civil rights activist
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