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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi John Cassavetes
American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter century, but those films affected the cinema culture of the 1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented ways. With a close nucleus of actors and crew members on his team, Cassavetes created films that explored the gritty side of human relationships.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Wading In Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Detailing the buildup of Back-of-Town businesses, lynchings in the early 1900s, and national and state legislation repressing Black progress, author Amy Lemco contextualizes the regional atmosphere Dr Gilbert Mason - a resilient civic leader, humanitarian, and lover of the water - and his family encountered in 1955.
£88.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi R. Crumb Literature Autobiography and the Quest for Self
Charts Robert Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explores the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of R. Crumb Underground in the Art Museum
A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rugs Guitars and Fiddling
Rugs handwoven in southern Mexico, luthier-made guitars, and southern US fiddle styles experience parallel changes, all absorbing just enough of the complex flavours, dynamics, and rhythms of modern life to translate inherited folklore into traditions that can be widely celebrated today.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Sportsmans Journey
Lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America's Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reconsidering Flannery OConnor
Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O'Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reading Testimony Witnessing Trauma Confronting Race Gender and Violence in American Literature
Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about - or witnessing - trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women and adds insight into the engagement of testimonial literature.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jean Peters Hollywoods Mystery Girl
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour are represented in YASF, how they participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Groove Theory The Blues Foundation of Funk
Presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Tony Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Robert Williams Conversations
A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in in this volume attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of energy evident in his underground comix and action-filled canvases.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Directions in Comics Studies
In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception.
£92.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Amazing Jimmi Mayes Sideman to the Stars
For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. This sideman to the stars witnessed music history from the best seat in the house - behind the drum set.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Women in Comics
Explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Start a Riot Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama Fiction and Poetry
Analyses riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest through experimental explorations in their writings.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Hearing Brazil Music and Histories in Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a range of traditions helping to define the region, Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Cham The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes 18391862
Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé, may have been the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates on his mastery of the important newcomer to the field of caricature, which we call comic strip, picture story, and graphic novel.
£81.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Savvy Sphinx How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
Including over a hundred beautiful images, The Savvy Sphinx charts Greta Garbo’s rise and her long self-imposed exile as the queen who abdicated her Hollywood throne. Garbo was the paramount star produced by the Hollywood studio system, and by the time of her death her legendary status was assured.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi In Faulkners Shadow A Memoir
What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Roots Punk
Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring interviews and over one hundred images, this volume focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labour ballads.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Whiskey Women and War How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans
Surveys the various ways New Orleans confronted the demands of World War I under the supervision of a dynamic political machine boss. Author Brian Altobello analyzes the mobilization of the local population in terms of enlistments and war bond sales and addresses the anti-vice crusade meant to safeguard the American war effort.
£35.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson
Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835-1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader. Alicia Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious life and politics after emancipation.
£26.15
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House and Beyond
Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, and other biographical materials.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics.
£25.26
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Civil Rights Movement in America
The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings.
£29.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Djeha the North African Trickster
An annotated, critical translation of Auguste Moulieras’s folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh’a, first published in French in 1892. The volume contains sixty tales and an in-depth introduction discussing jocular literature in Islam.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
With populations aging all around the world, awareness of intergenerational relationships and associations surrounding old age is becoming urgent. This book caters to this urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying insights into the connection between childhood and senescence to show that people are aged by culture.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Tim Gautreaux
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Place to Live in Peace Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish Louisiana
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Imperiled Whiteness
Argues that in the Obama-to-Trump era, a variety of media platforms, including film, television, news, and social media, turned white identity into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace. The book emphasizes how media coopted a postracial narrative, making whiteness a disenfranchised commodity.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rod Serling His Life Work and Imagination
Though best known for The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and TV and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards. In great detail and including never-published insights drawn directly from Serling's personal correspondence, unpublished writings, speeches, and unproduced scripts, Nicholas Parisi explores Serling's body of work.
£41.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Fantastic Cities American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror
Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Fear Hate and Victimhood How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook
Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns of both George Wallace and Donald Trump broke new grounds for political partisanship and divisiveness. Andrew Stoner analyses the two candidates, their campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Thousand Cuts The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
Presents a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays.
£27.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Christian Petzold
The first book to document how one of Germany’s best-known directors thinking about his work has evolved over the course of a quarter of a century, spanning his days as a flailing student filmmaker in the early 1990s in postunified Germany to 2020, when his reputation as one of world cinema’s most respected auteurs has been firmly enshrined.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Bloodstained Narratives The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad
The giallo (yellow) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. In Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad, contributors explore understudied aspects of gialli.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Our Portion of Hell
Offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against them. Robert Hamburger first visited Fayette County as part of a student civil rights project in 1965 and, in 1971, set out to document the history of the grassroots movement there.
£20.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Sinful Maternal Motherhood in Possession Films
£88.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Cant Be Faded Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game
A collaboration between Kyle DeCoste and more than a dozen members of the Stooges Brass Band, past and present. Told with humor and candour, this book is as much a personal account of the Stooges' careers as it is a story of New Orleans' musicians and a coming-of-age tale about black men in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sports and the Racial Divide Volume II A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
Draws together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race, sports, and athletic activism in the US. This anthology links post-World War II African American protest movements to a range of contemporary social justice interventions.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Drawn to Purpose American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich The Materiality of Cheap Comics
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jeff Lemire Conversations
In the interviews collected in Jeff Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Maurice Sendak
These interviews span from 1966 to 2011. They show not only Maurice Sendak's shifting artistic interests, but also changes in how he understood himself and his craft. What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and irascible, sophisticated and populist.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of R. Crumb Underground in the Art Museum
A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Starmaker David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
Reveals the mechanisms by which David O. Selznick and his collaborators discovered and promoted new stars and describes how these personalities were marketed, whether for financial gain or symbolic recognition and prestige.
£28.95
