University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0
New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the "talented tenth." This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class,...
More than Cricket and Football
International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket...
Alexander Payne
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961) has made seven feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies have garnered numerous accolades and awards, including two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Considering that he worked a stint as a screen writer, it will come as little surprise that Faulkner has often been called the most cinematic of novelists. Faulkner's novels were produced in the same high period as the films of classical Hollywood, a reason itself for considering his work alongside...
Populism in the South Revisited
New Interpretations and New Departures
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist Movement in this book is defined as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, as well as the Agricultural...
Sports Crazy
How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education. Institutions are increasingly emulating college and professional sports models and losing sight of a host of educational...
by J. E. Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made...
The Original Blues
The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018)
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on...
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless, and an unwilling...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
These essays examine issues across the wide arc of Faulkner's extraordinary career, from his aesthetic apprenticeship in the visual arts, to late-career engagements with the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and beyond, to the place of death in his artistic vision and the long, varied afterlives...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Faulkner and Mystery presents a wide spectrum of compelling arguments about the role and function of mystery in William Faulkner's fiction. Twelve new essays approach the question of what can be known and what remains a secret in the narratives of the Nobel laureate. Scholars debate whether or not...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in...
The Painted Screens of Baltimore
An Urban Folk Art Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished...
Paul Verhoeven
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls before returning home to direct...