University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Mary Wickes
I Know I've Seen That Face Before
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment of...
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Krzysztof Kieslowski's untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe's most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when...
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862
A Military Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
The largest offensive of the Civil War, involving army, navy, and marine forces, the Peninsula Campaign has inspired many history books. No previous work, however, analyzes Union general George B. McClellan's massive assault toward Richmond in the context of current and enduring military doctrine....
Swamp Rat
The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands along the Gulf Coast. In this definitive book on "swamp rats," Manno vividly recounts...
Art for the Middle Classes
America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
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 shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular,...
The President’s Ladies
Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America's most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Jane Wyman (1917-2007), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921-2016).
Jane Wyman,...
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s
Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To?
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more "disturbing," and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction" persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narratives outside of his novels. Conversations with James Ellroy covers a series of interviews given by Ellroy...
Angola to Zydeco
Louisiana Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives is a collection of creative nonfiction pieces about the lively personalities who call south Louisiana home. Originally published in newspapers based in Lafayette-Times of Acadiana and Independent Weekly-the twenty-five profiles and features provide intriguing glimpses...
War Noir
Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience...
American Horror Film
The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
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, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Ever since A Hall of Mirrors depicted the wild side of New Orleans in the 1960s, Robert Stone (1937-2015) has situated novels where America has shattered and the action is at a pitch. In Dog Soldiers, he covered the Vietnam War and drug smuggling. A Flag for Sunrise captured revolutionary discontent...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
With contributions by Greg Barnhisel, John N. Duvall, Kristin Fujie, Sarah E. Gardner, Jaime Harker, Kristi Rowan Humphreys, Robert Jackson, Mary A. Knighton, Jennifer Nolan, Carl Rollyson, Tim A. Ryan, Jay Satterfield, Erin A. Smith, Jay Watson, and Yung-Hsing Wu
William Faulkner's first ventures...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, preserving...