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.
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
Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
A thorough reckoning of the evolving ideas and legacy of a founding force in American evangelism
Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest
Fifty Pieces from the Road
A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original “Boys on the Bus”
A Thousand Cuts
The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
The colorful, compulsive, secretive history of famous and infamous film fiends
The Land of Rowan Oak
An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World
An extraordinary photographic documentary of the wild and cultivated plants and landscape of Faulkner’s inspirational writing sanctuary
Win the Race or Die Trying
Uncle Earl's Last Hurrah
How one of the last Louisiana Longs escaped a mental institution and died after winning election to Congress
Big Jim Eastland
The Godfather of Mississippi
The biography of a powerful Mississippi senator rife with contradictions
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences
Delta Rainbow
The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson
The story of a plantation heiress who threw aside convention, joined the Marines, and fought for civil rights
The Dixie Limited
Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence
A dazzling collection of writers worldwide on the massive authority of the Nobel laureate
Faulkner and Film
A collection exploring the extensive connections between the Nobel laureate’s work and cinema