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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Cuba hasta siempre
Magdalena Solé first visited Cuba in 2011 and has returned every year since, enchanted by the place and the people who live in this slender stretch of land. Her photographs reveal the stirrings of transformation, however subtle and hard to see, and reflect a Cuba that is both tough and vulnerable.
£44.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with John Banville
The first interview collection with this esteemed writer. The book includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Writing in the Kitchen Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways
Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the US South, the connections between them have not been thoroughly explored until now. This volume explores the relationship between food and literature and makes a major contribution to the study of both southern literature and of southern foodways and culture more widely.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Photographs
Eudora Welty's Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer's photographs. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects.
£44.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Peter Bogdanovich Interviews
Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich interviewed some of cinema's great masters. Since becoming an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he has given countless interviews to the press about his own career. This volume collects thirteen of his best, most comprehensive, and most insightful of these interviews.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Ghost Channels Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of TwentyFirstCentury America
Despite the high number of programs and their evident popularity, paranormal reality television has to date received little critical attention. This volume provides an overview of the paranormal reality television genre, its development, and its place in television history, conducting in-depth analyses of over thirty paranormal television series.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monsters and Saints
Presents a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Dancing Man A Broadway Choreographers Journey
Tony and Olivier Award-winning Bob Avian's dazzling life story, Dancing Man, is candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining. Here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider's view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.
£40.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Percival Everett
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Alt Kid Lit What Childrens Literature Might Be
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Baz Luhrmann
Though he has made only five films in two decades, Australian writer-director Baz Luhrmann is an internationally known brand name. In this collection of interviews, Luhrmann discusses his methods and his motives, explaining what has been important to him and his collaborators from the start and how he has been able to maintain an independence from the studios that have backed his films.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Barbara Kopple Interviews
Barbara Kopple has established herself as one of the most prolific filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from documentaries to feature films to an educational series for kids. Through it all, Kopple has made herself available for many print and broadcast interviews. The most revealing of these are brought together in this volume.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sylvia Plath Day by Day Volume 1 19321955
Each new biography of Sylvia Plath has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Eleanor H. Porters Pollyanna A Childrens Classic at 100
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Songs of Earth
Provides a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analysing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Time of My Life A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
New Orleans is a Mecca for jazz pilgrims. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson, who fell in love with New Orleans jazz in his early teens while in boarding school in England. It is also his story of becoming disenchanted with his family and English environment and finding acceptance and a new home in New Orleans.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Charley Patton Voice of the Mississippi Delta
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Winnie Lightner Tomboy of the Talkies
Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation. At long last, this biography gives Winnie Lightner the recognition she deserves as a notable figure in film history.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The South Strikes Back
Describes the birth of the white Citizens’ Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Hodding Carter begins with a brief historical overview and traces the formation of the Council, its treatment of African Americans, and its impact on white communities, concluding with an analysis of the Council’s future in Mississippi.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Madeleine LEngle
Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of authorial self-fashioning, as L'Engle transformed from novelist to children's author to Christian writer.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Eric Rohmer Interviews
The interviews in this book offer a range of insights into the theoretical, critical, and practical circumstances of Eric Rohmer's remarkably coherent body of films, but also allow Rohmer to act as his own critic, providing us with an array of readings concerning his interest in setting, season, colour, and narrative.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Faulkner in the TwentyFirst Century
Presents the thoughts of ten noted Faulkner scholars who spoke at the twenty-seventh annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi. Contributions by Deborah N. Cohn, Leigh Anne Duck, Robert W. Hamblin, Michael Kreyling, Barbara Ladd, Walter Benn Michaels, Patrick O'Donnell, Theresa M. Towner, Annette Trefzer, and Karl F. Zender.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Flannery at the Grammys
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Outsider Art Visionary Worlds and Trauma
Provides a comprehensive guide through the contested terrain of outsider art and the related domains of art brut, visionary art, “art of the insane”, and folk art. The book examines the history and primary issues of the field as well as explores the intersection between culture and individual creativity that is at the very heart of outsider art definitions and debates.
£40.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Harmony Korine Interviews
Tracks filmmaker Harmony Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation recorded at the filmmaker's home in Nashville.
£25.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Ed Brubaker Conversations
Ed Brubaker has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Brubaker layers his stories with a keen self-awareness, applying his expansive knowledge of American comic book history to invigorate his work. This collection of interviews explores the sophisticated artist's work, drawing upon the entire length of the award-winning Brubaker's career.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Fred Schepisi
Includes twenty interviews with Fred Schepisi and two with longtime collaborators, cinematographer Ian Baker and composer Paul Grabowsky. The interviews trace the filmmaker's career from his beginnings in advertising, through his two early Australian features to his subsequent work in the United States and beyond.
£49.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Drawing the Past Volume 2 Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World
Examines the many ways in which history worldwide has been explored and (re)represented through comics and how history is a complex construction of imagination, reality, and manipulation. The book contends that comics are a form of mediation between sources (both primary and secondary) and the reader.
£98.10
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.
£88.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rethinking Racial Uplift Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era
While many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Nigel Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Steven Spielberg Interviews Revised and Updated
With this new collection of interviews, readers will recognise the themes that motivate Steven Spielberg, the cinematic techniques he employs to create his feature films, and the emotional connection he has to his movies. The result is a nuanced and engaging portrait of the most popular director in American cinema history.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
Readers cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel will be an eye-opening encounter.
£29.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Ralph Ellison
£23.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Saul Bellow
In this collection of interviews spanning 1953 to 1991, Saul Bellow speaks with his interviewers of the changing role of fiction, the literary establishment, and the place of literature in modern life. Since no definitive biography of Bellow has yet been written, these interviews provide valuable insights into this pre-eminent American novelist.
£25.26
