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.
Alan Ball
Conversations
Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood
Gloria Swanson
Ready for Her Close-Up
A biography of the Queen of Hollywood and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism
Baba Yaga
The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
A beautiful illustrated collection of fairy tales about the most iconic and active of Russian magical characters
The Dragon's Blood
Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples'
A new intertextual reading that shows Welty confronting one of western literature’s major forces—the indomitable hero
Mobilizing for the Common Good
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Essays on the famed activist and preacher, among the first to call for relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution in a post-civil rights America
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi’s Hill Country blues
Fame to Infamy
Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace
Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons
The Superhero Reader
A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre
Anthony Minghella
Interviews
Interviews with the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain
Scotty and Elvis
Aboard the Mystery Train
The true life story of Elvis’s original guitarist, the masterful Scotty Moore
Une Belle Maison
The Lombard Plantation House in New Orleans's Bywater
An extraordinary look at the life, decay, and restoration of a plantation home
Folklore Recycled
Old Traditions in New Contexts
How the study of folklore has moved beyond oral traditions into creative realms where it is repurposed and transformed
Made in Mexico
Tradition, Tourism, and Political Fermant in Oaxaca
A study of the interplay between local producers and consuming tourists in a volatile state
Second Line Rescue
Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita
How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when their institutions failed
Witness to Reconstruction
Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894
An examination of the defining role played by one woman writer who covered the South during Reconstruction
Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic
His Final, Great Speech
An analysis of the course and content of the prophetic Memphis declaration
Jazz Diplomacy
Promoting America in the Cold War Era
How America used jazz musicians to carry the anti-communist message when politics failed
Southern Frontier Humor
New Approaches
New approaches and new considerations of authors beyond Mark Twain and into the present day
Rethinking the Irish in the American South
Beyond Rounders and Reelers
A fresh look at a multifaceted minority culture
Neil Jordan
Interviews
Interviews with the director of The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, and The Butcher Boy
Haiti and the Americas
Perspectives that shatter the stereotypes and expand understanding of a complex island nation
Les Cadiens et leurs ancêtres acadiens
l'histoire racontée aux jeunes
For young readers and immersion classes, a proven history of the Cajun people, now in French
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family
A firsthand account of the trauma and impact on one family facing leprosy
Of Comics and Men
A Cultural History of American Comic Books
An analysis of the production, content, and techniques of comic books and graphic novels
You Must Be from the North
Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement
How well-meaning and well-to-do Memphis women found themselves in the fray in a city’s civil rights turmoil
Writing Women's History
A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott
Essays on how women’s history is written in the wake of The Southern Lady
Warring Fictions
Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative
A thoroughly documented study of American fiction on the Vietnam War
The Story-Time of the British Empire
Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics
An analysis of the folklore collected by imperials and colonials during the second empire
Realism for the Masses
Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947
How the Left popularized American realism through best-sellers, Broadway plays, radio, film, and journalism
Perspectives on Richard Ford
A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author