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.
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition
The State of Health and Health Care in Mississippi
A comprehensive survey of the health care crisis in one of the nation’s poorest states
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
A compelling history of the director’s films of war and resistance
Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement
Compelling accounts from early champions of Louisiana’s struggle to save natural resources
West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities
An Ethnomusicological Perspective
The first ethnomusicological study of the people who created a transnational connection in and through a world music culture
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s
Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?
An expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror movies
Hip Hop on Film
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history
Drawing from Life
Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memories in autobiographical comics
Comics and Narration
How all the elements in the grammar of comics merge to create a storyline
Comics and Language
Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form
A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studies
Chester Brown
Conversations
Collected interviews with the unconventional comics creator of Yummy Fur (1983–1994), comics memoirs such as The Playboy (1991/1992) and I Never Liked You (1991-1994), and his best-selling memoir Paying for It (2011)
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities
Hearths of Darkness
The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition
A thorough study of a movie genre that reached its cultural zenith in the 1970s but remains influential today
Time in Television Narrative
Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming
How shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television
Insider Histories of Cartooning
Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators
From a cartoonist and a veteran writer on the history of comics, a joyous reclamation of cartooning geniuses
The Struggle for America's Promise
Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
An examination of extraordinary uses and abuses of an American ideal during a time of perceived prosperity
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Wide-ranging discussions with the comics artist known for the groundbreaking sci-fi satire American Flagg!
Dave Sim
Conversations
Interviews with the creator of Cerebus
Autobiographical Comics
Life Writing in Pictures
A fruitful reading of the best North American and European autobiographical comics
Song of My Life
A Biography of Margaret Walker
The first biography of the much admired author of the novel Jubilee and the poem “For My People”
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
A comprehensive exploration of the fascinating ecology and history of one of the South’s most complex and thriving estuaries
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
A history of overreaching, gridlock, intrigue, and the final catastrophic results along America’s most vulnerable coastline
Japanese Animation
East Asian Perspectives
Never before available in English, East Asian critiques and discussion of a powerful Japanese export and popular art form
Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson
How the tangles of nineteenth-century justice ensnared an itinerant worker in Louisiana
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities
How the image of the militant guerilla helped and hindered aims of African American and Asian American power movements
The Search for Good Wine
From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table
One hundred amusing, practical essays on how to enjoy and afford good wines by the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine
David Fincher
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Social Network
Ed King's Mississippi
Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer
An extraordinary photographic documentary from behind the scenes during the struggle for civil rights