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.
Buster Keaton
Interviews
Interviews with one of the most iconic stars of Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras
Words into Images
Screenwriters on the Studio System
An unprecedented view of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Rodolphe Töpffer
The Complete Comic Strips
The first English-language edition of the premier comic artist’s work
Hands in the Till
Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi
The Circle of Guilt
A famed psychiatrist’s view of race, mass media, and a rush to judgment in New York City
The Beatles
Image and the Media
A study of the forces that transformed four Liverpool musicians into icons for the 1960s
Father of the Comic Strip
Rodolphe Töpffer
A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip
Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
The definitive biography of the “Father of Country Music”
Sacred and Profane
Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition
An update of one of the indispensable political and social histories of African Americans since World War II
Conversations with Larry Brown
Interviews with the author of Dirty Work, Father and Son, Joe, and Big Bad Love
Clarence John Laughlin
Prophet without Honor
A biography of a New Orleans photographer of worldwide acclaim
Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902
A revisionary study of Mississippi’s late nineteenth-century image as a one-party state of Democrats
Lotus Among the Magnolias
The Mississippi Chinese
A study showing how the Mississippi Chinese expanded their social and economic potential and moved away from restrictive beginnings
The University of Mississippi School of Law
A Sesquicentennial History
The story of one of the state’s formative institutions
Ed McGowin, Name Change
One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty-five Years
An overview of creations from the many identities of one artist
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?
Firsthand accounts of how life unfolded for the youth of the Age of Aquarius
Dunlap
The first full-length book heralding this renowned artist’s achievements
Ghost Hunters of the South
From across Dixie, profiles of irrepressible investigators of the paranormal
Andrei Tarkovsky
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
A house-rocking blues life story of the late Mississippi-born front man of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
Odd-Egg Editor
Remembering the sting of male discrimination she repeatedly endured during her career as a newspaper-woman, the author wistfully recalls the hurt of being overlooked, snubbed, and ribbed by her male colleagues
Coming to Colorado
A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer
The inspiring sequel to German Boy: A Refugee’s Story
20 over 40
Stories about the unique perils and tensions of middle age