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.
Rough South, Rural South
Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature
A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature
Martin Scorsese
Interviews, Revised and Updated
This collection traces Scorsese’s evolution from the earliest days of the New American Cinema, his work with Roger Corman, and his days at New York University’s film program to his efforts to preserve the legacy of cinema, his documentary work, and his recent string of successes.
Ain't There No More
Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain
A harrowing account of coastal erosion, long neglect, and a man-made disaster in the Bayou State
The Good Doctors
The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
The extraordinary tale of health care professionals who fought the crippling effects of segregation and challenged the medical establishment
Peter Bogdanovich
Interviews
Interviews with the director of The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc?, and Daisy Miller
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen
A Life in Film
A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director
Alexander Payne
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Citizen Ruth, Nebraska, and The Descendants
Superheroes on World Screens
Essays exploring the many ways in which superheroes no longer belong solely to America
Minority Relations
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America
Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
Interviews derived from four decades of this American poet’s distinguished career
Winnie Lightner
Tomboy of the Talkies
The biography of the spunky “Song a Minute Girl,” the first actress to have her spoken words censored
Peter Bagge
Conversations
Interviews with the creator of the comics series Hate and the former editor of the often outrageous Weirdo magazine
More than Cricket and Football
International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity
A passport to the many nations, sports stars, and sports across the globe
Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism
A history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the Black freedom struggle in America
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices
War Noir
Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
A recognition of the intense role war trauma played in the great writer’s characters and legacy
Mississippi
The Long, Hot Summer
The original sociological encounter with the riven demographics of the closed society
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition
Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
How white resistance operated and adapted to the sweeping forces of racial change
Clockwork Rhetoric
The Language and Style of Steampunk
How the language of the imaginatively styled movement attracts followers to steampunk aesthetic
The Comic Book Film Adaptation
Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre
The first study of how the comic book moved to the center of Hollywood film production in the twenty-first century
Trouble in Goshen
Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South
The untold story of three New Deal cooperative farms in the most economically challenged places in the South
The Port Royal Experiment
A Case Study in Development
An examination of the emancipated islands of the Carolina coast and how their history sheds light on the difficulties of nation building
Parchman
Powerful first-hand witness to the prison experience in Mississippi’s sprawling penitentiary farm
Dan Duryea
Heel with a Heart
The biography of a devoted family man best known for his roles as abusive villains
Conversations with Michael Chabon
Interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Conversations with William Gibson
Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History
Expressions of Place
The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape
Contemporary artists revealing the state’s urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields
Madeline Kahn
Being the Music, A Life
The first biography of the great comedic actress and star of stage and screen
Bertrand Tavernier
Interviews
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
Lucky Dogs
From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond
An insider's account of the iconic hotdog cart business and its role in the French Quarter and the world
The Mississippi Secession Convention
Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865
The first examination of the entire convention and the men who deliberated there
She Could Be Chaplin!
The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell
The first book-length appreciation of one of the most important comediennes of the silent film era
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice
Susan Sontag
The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated
An intimate portrait of the famed writer, director, and activist
Pelican Road
A Novel
The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad
Outsider Art
Visionary Worlds and Trauma
An unparalleled exploration of the power of art and the impulse of creation
Mississippians in the Great War
Selected Letters
A fascinating collection of correspondence from soldiers, nurses, and relief workers during World War I
Medievalist Comics and the American Century
Why so many American comics fans avidly follow medieval heroes