University Press of Mississippi

Reflections of family, life, and love in Mississippi between grandmother and granddaughterAuthor: Marion Garrard Barnwell, Mary Dubose Trice ClarkPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication...

A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children's literature is and who it is made forAuthor: Kenneth B. Kidd, Derritt MasonPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Mar...

In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Fran?oise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love & Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario...

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Blues, Hip-Hop, Rhythm & Blues - Certificate of Merit (2014) For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi...

A close-up look at America's perceived historical ideal Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of...

Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self--or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation,...

From more than a hundred autobiographical accounts written by American Indians recalling their schooling in government and missionary institutions this book recovers a perspective that was almost...

Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government's rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native-US relations throughout the nineteenth century's removal and...

This is Whitney Balliett's long-awaited "big book." In it are all the jazz profiles he wrote for the New Yorker during the past twenty-four years. These include his famous early portraits of Pee Wee...

When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said "no other writer now living can...

This handy, compact, and authoritative volume provides readers and students with information about a multitude of Arthurian characters, places, themes, and topics from the first written records of...

Anatomy of Four Race Riots is a study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America during the post World War I years, racial violence that left hundreds dead...

Walter Anderson's bold visual translation of the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAuthor: Lewis CarrollPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Sep 25,...

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar...

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization...

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children's literature. Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History explores Disney's...

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children's literature. Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History explores Disney's...

Interviews with the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold MountainAuthor: Mario FalsettoPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Sep 18, 2024Number of...

Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L...

This reprinting makes available again the only book of its kind to be focused upon the prehistoric Indians of Mississippi. Although written expressly for the lay reader, it has continued for more...

When Art Spiegelman's Maus--a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust--won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of "serious" comics has...

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print...

Beginning in 1957 with the release of his directorial debut The Left-Handed Gun, Arthur Penn (b. 1922) quickly became an iconoclastic and influential American film director. Moving deftly between...

Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and...

At Home Abroad brings attention to a little-known period in the career of America's most notable humorist. It follows the writer-performer Down Under on a journey through thirty lectures in colonial...

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960) began his career while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. His first love was playwriting, but...

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960) began his career while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. His first love was playwriting, but...

Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Trevor Boffone, T. Jackie Cuevas, Cristina Herrera, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Isaac Miranda, Jesus Monta?o, Domino Renee...

Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Trevor Boffone, T. Jackie Cuevas, Cristina Herrera, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Isaac Miranda, Jesus Monta?o, Domino Renee...

A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of...