University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Outsider Art
Visionary Worlds and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated with self-taught visionaries, psychiatric patients, trance mediums, eccentric outcasts, and unschooled...
by Stephen M. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveler to New York City where the...
Mario Lanza
Singing to the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Blessed with one of the great tenor voices of all time, Mario Lanza (1921-1959) rose to spectacular heights in a film, recording, and concert career that spanned little more than a decade. Groomed at the outset for a career on the opera stage, Lanza instead flourished in Hollywood where his films,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and...
A Charlie Brown Religion
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe...
The Comic Book Film Adaptation
Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
"There is no better, smarter examination of the relationship between comics and film."
--Mark Waid, Eisner Award-winning writer of Kingdom Come and Daredevil
In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon (b. 1963) has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and medium. A firm believer that reading even the...
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating...
Hand of Fire
The Comics Art of Jack Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's...
by Thierry Groensteen
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between...
Grant Morrison
Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His...
From Daniel Boone to Captain America
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth century, American...
Dave Sim
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the comic, Sim used it as a springboard to explore not only the potential of the comics...
Hollywood Unknowns
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the...