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Citizen Kane

Furguson, Otis.  “Citizen Welles.” New Republic June 2, 1941.

Crowther, Bosley. "Citizen Kane". The New York Times   May 2, 1941, 25:1.

Gottlieb, Sidney. “Citizen Kane: American Heroes and Witnesses.” North Dakota Quarterly 60 (4) (1992) 105-115.

Gravett, Sharon L.  "Will the 'Real' William Randolph Hearst Please Stand Up? Jo Stoyte Versus Charles Foster Kane." Studies in Popular Culture 21 (3) (1999).

Bates, Robin. “Fiery Speech in a World of Shadows: Rosebud's Impact on Early Audiences.” Cinema Journal 26 (2) (1987) 3-26.

Tomasulo, Frank P. “Narrate and Describe? Point of View and Narrative Voice in Citizen Kane's Thatcher Sequence.” Wide Angle 8 (3-4) (1986) 45-52.

Street, Sarah. "Citizen Kane (How Orson Welles film fits into the politics and zeitgeist of America on the eve of Pearl Harbor)." History Today 46 (3) (March, 1996) 48.

Additional Readings

Boyd, David. "Images of Identity in Citizen Kane." Southern Review 14  (1) (Mar 1981) 64-72.

Carringer, Robert L. “Rosebud Dead or Alive: Narrative and Symbolic Structure in Citizen Kane.” PMLA 91 (2) (1976) 185-193.

Carringer, Robert L. The Making of Citizen Kane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Carringer, Robert L. "Orson Welles and Gregg Toland: Their Collaboration on Citizen Kane." Critical Inquiry 8 (4) (1982) 651-674.

Carringer, Robert L. "The Scripts of Citizen Kane." Critical Inquiry 5 (2) (1978) 369-400.

Carringer, Robert L. "Who Really Wrote Citizen Kane?" American Film 10 (1985) 42-9.

Cardullo, Bert. "The Real Fascination of Citizen Kane." New Orleans Review 9 (1) (Spring/Summer 1982) 56-64.

Corel, A. "Language and Time in Citizen Kane."  Psychoanal. Inquiry 18 (1998) 154-160.

Deutelbaum, Marshall. "'Rosebud' and the Illusion of Childhood Innocence in Citizen Kane." The Kingdom of Dreams in Literature and Film.  Ed.  Douglas Fowler  (1986). (In Net Library)

Gottesman, Ronald. Focus on Citizen Kane. Ed.  Ronald Gottesman. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1971.

Perspectives on Citizen Kane.  ed. Ronald Gottesman. New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1996.

Kael, Pauline.  “Raising Kane.” The Citizen Kane Book. with “The Shooting Script.” by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles. Boston: Little, Brown 1971.

Klein, Melanie.  "Notes on Citizen Kane." Psychoanal. Inquiry 18 (1998) 147-153.

Leaming, Barbara. Orson Welles' Bibliography. New York:  Viking, 1985.

Lebo, Harlan. Citizen Kane: The Fiftieth-Anniversary Album. (foreword by Robert Wise.) New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Leland Poague. "Citizen Kane." The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Eds. Christopher Lyon and Susan Doll. 2 vols. Chicago: St. James Press, 1984-1987.

Mulvey, Laura. Citizen Kane. London: BFI Publishing, 1992.

Mason, A. "Melanie Klein's Notes on Citizen Kane with Commentary." Psychoanal. Inquiry 18 (1998) 147-153.

Pitney, John J., Jr. "Antifascism in Citizen Kane." Reelpolitik. Ed. Beverly Merrill Kelley, et al. Westport: Praeger, 1998.


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Truman Show

Bishop, Ronald.  “Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night: The Truman Show as Media Criticism.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 24 (1) (2000) 6-18. 

Romney, Jonathan.  ‘The New Paranoia.” Film Comment 34 (6) (1998) 39-43.

Porton R.   The Truman Show.” Cineaste 23 (4) (1998) 48-49.

Additional Readings

Bliss, Michael. “Keeping a Sense of Wonder: Interview with Peter Weir.” Film Quarterly 53 (1) (1999)   2-11.

Elliott, Neil. “The Truman Show.” Sojourners  27 (5) (Sept./Oct. '98) 75-6. 

Kates, Ronald.  "New Urbanism Meets Cinematic Fantasyland: Seaside, The Truman Show, and New Utopias." Studies in American Culture 23 (2) (2000) 93-98.

Kavanaugh, John F. “The Truman Show.” America 179 (2) (1998) 18.

Perez, Gilberto. “CINEMA IN REVIEW.” Yale Review  87 (1) (Jan 1999) 182.


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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Mason, Clifford. "Why White  America  Loves  Sidney  Poitier.” New York Times November 1967.

Wartenberg, Thomas E.  Unlikely Couples : Movie Romance as Social Criticism.  Boulder: Westview Press,  1999.

Additional Readings

Spoto, Donald.   Stanley Kramer, Film Maker. Hollywood: Samuel French,  1990.

Toh Hai-Leong.  Mixed-Race Marriage -- Hollywood's Version (A View from Singapore) Kinema (Spring 1993).

Wartenberg, Thomas E. "'But Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry One?': The Representation of Race and Racism in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." Journal of Social Philosophy (1994) 99-130.


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Marnie

Bailin, R. "Feminist Readership, Violence, and Marnie." Film Reader 5 (1982) 24-36.

 

Columpar, Corinn.    “Marnie: A Site/Sight for the Convergence of Gazes.”  Hitchcock Annual (1999-2000) 51-73.

 

Kapsis, Robert E.  “The Historical Reception of Hitchcock's Marnie.” Journal of Film and Video 40 (3) (Summer 1988) 46.

 

Bellour, Raymond. “Hitchcock, the Enunciator." Camera Obscura /2 (Fall 1977) 66-91.

 

Additional Readings

Bergstrom, Janet.  “Enunciation and Sexual Difference (part I).” Camera Obscura 3/4 (Summer 1979) 32-69.

Hitchcock, Alfred. Hitchcock on Hitchcock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. (In Net Library)

Knapp, Lucretia. “The Queer Voice in Marnie.” Cinema Journal 32 (1993) 6-23.

Mogg, Ken.  “Defending Marnie- and Hitchcock.”  Hitchcock Annual (1999-2000) 74-83.


Stern, Emil.  “Hitchcock's Marnie: Dreams, Surrealism, and the Sublime.” Hitchcock Annual (1999-2000) 30-50.


McElhaney, Joe.   “Touching the Surface: Marnie, Melodrama, Modernism.”  Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays.  Ed. Richard Allen.  London: British Film Institute,  87-105.


Wood, Robin.  “Looking at The Birds and Marnie through the Rear Window.”  Cineaction!   50  (1999) 80. 


Allen, Richard.  “Belle Du Jour and Marnie.” The Psychoanalytic Review.  82 (6) (1995) 933. 

 


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Cabaret

Mizejewski, L.   Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

Tanner, Louise.  “Eunuchs under the code.”  Films in Review 47 (May/June 1996) 80-1. (In Ebsco)

Clark R.  “Blending the Genre - the Stage and Screen Versions of 'Cabaret’.” Literature-Film Quarterly 19 (1) (1991) 51-59.(In Ebsco)

Rodda A.   “'Cabaret' - Utilizing the Film Medium to Create a Unique Adaptation.”   Literature-Film Quarterly 22  (1) (1994) 36-41.(In Ebsco)

Additional Readings

Altman, Rick. The American Film Musical.  London: British Film Institute, 1989.

Berardinelli, Daniel.  “Swastika in the Fun-House Mirror: Cabaret's Parting Shot.”  Varieties of Filmic Expression.  Ed. Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas.  Kent:   Romance Langs. Dept., Kent State Univ.   164-68.

Blades, Joe.  “The Evolution of Cabaret.”  Literature/Film Quarterly 1 (1973) 226-38.

Gottfried, Martin. All His Jazz : The Life and Death of Bob Fosse. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1990.

Grubb, Kevin Boyd.  Razzle Dazzle :The Life and Works of Bob Fosse.  New York : St. Martin's, 1991.

Mizejewski L.   “Women, Monsters, and the Masochistic Aesthetic in Fosse 'Cabaret'.”  Journal of Film and Video 39 (4) (1987) 5-17. 

Vogel, Shane.  “Where Are We Now? Queer World Making and Cabaret Performance.”  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies  6 (1) (2000) 29-60.


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Titanic

Kramer P.    “Women first: 'Titanic' (1997), Action-adventure Films and Hollywood's Female Audience.” Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television 18 (4) (1998) 599-618.

Thompson, F.   “Songe-de-Titanic (Movies about the Titanic).” Film Comment 34 (1) (1998) 64.

McGee P.    “Terrible Beauties: Messianic Time and the Image of Social Redemption in James Cameron's 'Titanic'.”  Postmodern Culture 10 (1)  (1999) E1-E36.

Biel, Steven.  Titanic.” The Journal of American History 85 (3) (1998) 1177-9.

Cull, Nicholas J. “Titanic.”  The American Historical Review 103 (2) (1998) 634-5.

Cove, Alex. "Titanic Ambition." The Red Herring (January 1998) 72.

Simpson, David. “Tourism and Titanomania.”  Critical Inquiry  25 (4) (1999) 680-95.

Additional Readings

Arroyo, J.   “Massive Attack (James Cameron's 'Titanic').” Sight & Sound 8 (2) (1998) 16-19.

Bartlett, N. “Two More Sinkings ('Titanic').” Sight & Sound 8 (3) (1998) 64.

Calhoun, J.   “That Sinking Feeling (From the grand staircase to the first-class china, the Titanic is recreated for James Cameron's blockbuster film).”    Theatre Crafts International 32 (1) (1998) 24-29.

Cameron, James. “A Case of Critical Lese-Majeste (James Cameron's response to Kenneth Turan's criticism of 'Titanic')” Sight & Sound  8 (6) (1998) 5.

Chumo, P. N.   “Learning to Make Each Day Count: Time in James Cameron's 'Titanic'.”  Journal of Popular Film and Television 26 (4) (1999): 158-164.

Davis TF; Womack K.  “Narrating the Ship of Dreams - The Ethics of Sentimentality in James Cameron's 'Titanic'.”  Journal of Popular Film and Television 29 (1) (2001) 42-48.

Farry, O.    “Forget the Love Story ('Titanic').” Sight & Sound 8 (3) (1998) 64.

Henry, M.   “Action Films: Conversation with James Cameron Regarding 'Titanic'.”  Positif 444 (1998) 62-66.

Howells R.   “Atlantic crossings: Nation, Class and Identity in 'Titanic' (1953) and A 'Night to Remember' (1958).” Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television 19 (4) (1999) 421-438.

Jones, K.   “Critic's Heart is an Ocean of Longing - Apres-Christmas Grumblings.” Film Comment 34 (2) (1998) 20-25.

Joyce, H.    “James Cameron: Genius ('Titanic').” Sight & Sound 8 (3) (1998) 64.

Kendrick, J.   “Marxist Overtones in Three Films by James Cameron.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 27 (3) (1999) 36-44.

Larabee, Ann E.  “The American Hero and His Mechanical Bride: Gender Myths of the Titanic Disaster.” American Studies 31 (1990) 5-23.

Lawrenson, E. “That Sinking Feeling (Other Film Versions of the Titanic Disaster).” Sight & Sound 8 (2) (1998) 19.

Lubin, David M. Titanic. London: British Film Institute, 1999.

Leigh,   D.   “Titanic Town”  Sight & Sound  9 (6) (1999) 60.

Magid, Ron. "Epic Effects Christen Titanic." American Cinematographer 78 (December 1997) 62-64.

Magid, Ron. "Ship Building." American Cinematographer 78 (December 1997) 81.

Miller, Laura.   Titanic.”  Sight & Sound 8 (2) (1998) 50-2.

Parisi, Paula.  Titanic and the Making of James Cameron. Orion Media: London, 1998.

Parisi, Paula.  "Lunch on the Deck of the Titanic."  Wired 6 (2) (February 1998) 148.

Staiger, Janet. "'The Eyes are Really the Focus': Photoplay Acting and Film Form and Style," Wide Angle 6 (4) (1985) 14-23.

Thompson, F.   “Titanic Movies Recycled.” Film Comment  34 (1) (1998) 66.

Williams, David E.  "All Hands on Deck." American Cinematographer 78 (December 1997) 30.

Williams, David E.  "Captain of His Ship." American Cinematographer 78 (December 1997) 51.


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Double Indemnity

Johnston, Claire. “Double Indemnity.” Women in Film Noir. Ed. Kaplan, E. Ann (1980).

Rozgonyi, Jay.  "The Making of Double Indemnity." Films in Review 41 (6-7) (Jun/Jul 1990) 339. (In Ebsco)

Dick, Bernard.  “Columbia's Dark Ladies and the Femmes Fatales of Film Noir.”  Literature/Film Quarterly 23 (3) (1995) 155-62. (In Ebsco)

Additional Readings

Allyn, John.  Double Indemnity: A Policy That Paid Off.”  Literature/Film Quarterly 6 (2) (1978) 122-4.

Arthur, Paul.   “Los Angeles as Scene of the Crime.”  Film Comment   32 (4) (July-August 1996) 20.

Dargis, Manohla. “N FOR NOIR.” Sight & Sound 7 (7) (1997) 28.

Gallagher, Brian.   “'I Love You Too': Sexual Warfare & Homoeroticism in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity.”   Literature/Film Quarterly 15 (4) (1987) 237-246.

Gravett, Sharon.  “Love and Hate in Film Noir: Double Indemnity and Body Heat.” JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 1 (1) (1995 Fall) 177-85.

Krutnik, Frank.  In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity.  London:  Routledge, 1991.

Loyo, Hilaria. “Subversive Pleasures in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity.”  Atlantis: Revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 15 (1-2) (1993 May-Nov) 169-90.

Naremore, James.  “Straight Down the Line: Making and Remaking Double Indemnity.”   Film Comment 32 (Jan./Feb. 1996) 22-31.

Orr, Christopher.  “Cain, Naturalism and Noir.”  Film Criticism 25 (1) (Fall 2000) 47-64.

Prelutsky, Burt.  “An Interview with Billy Wilder.”  Michigan Quarterly Review 35 (Winter 1996) 64-74.

Prigozy, Ruth. “Double Indemnity: Billy Wilder's Crime and Punishment.”  Literature/Film Quarterly 12 (3) (1984) 160-170. 

Schickel, Richard.  Double Indemnity.  London:  British Film Inst., 1992. 

Schroeder, Alan.   “Sexual Tension in Double Indemnity.”  Creative Screenwriting 5 (1) (1998) 6-7.

Seidman, Steve.  The Film Career of Billy Wilder.  Boston: G. K. and Company, 1977. 115-148; 151.

Spiegel, Alan.  “Seeing Triple: Cain, Chandler and Wilder on Double Indemnity.”   Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 16 (1-2) (1983 Winter-Spring)  83-101.

Wilder, Billy.  Double Indemnity; Screenplay with an Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.


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Being John Malkovich

Sterritt D.   Being John Malkovich.” Cineaste 25 (2) (2000) 72.

Taubin, Amy.  "Left of Center and at the Forefront." Village Voice 154 (38) (09/28/99) 124. (In Ebsco)

Additional Readings

Aftab, Kaleem.  “Jonze.”   Creative Review 20 (2) (Feb. 2000) 36-41.

Chang, Chris.  “Head Wide Open.” Film Comment 35 (5) (Sept./Oct. 1999) 6.

Gabbard, Glen O. “Fifteen Minutes of Fame Revisited:  Being John Malkovich.”  The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.  82 (1) (2001) 177.

James N.   “The Sweet Smell of Cinema.”   Sight & Sound  9 (11) (1999) 6.

Mount J and S. Jonze  “How To Get a Head in Movies (Interview with Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman).” Sight & Sound 10 (3) (2000) 12-13.

Rich, B. Ruby.  “Queer and Present Danger.”  Sight & Sound 10 (3) (2000)  22-5.

Romney, Jonathan.  Being John Malkovich.”  Sight & Sound 10 (3) (2000) 40-1.


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Frankenstein (1931)

Heffernan, James A. W. "Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film." Critical Inquiry 24 (1997) 133-158.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "James Whale's (Mis)Reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15 (1998) 382-404. (IN LION: Literature Online)

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Rushing, Janice H. and Thomas S. Frentz. "The Frankenstein Myth in Contemporary Cinema." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 6 (1989) 61-80.

Glut, Donald. The Frankenstein Legend: A Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1973.

Additional Readings

Bann, Stephen. ed. Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity. London: Reaktion Books, 1994.

Brunas, Michael, John Brunas and Tom Weaver. Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931 - 1946. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, Incorporated, 1990.

Conger, Syndy M. and Welsch, Janice R. "The Comic and the Grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein Films." Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Grant, Garry Keith. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1984.  290-306.

Dixon, Wheeler W. "The Films of Frankenstein." Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein. Ed. Behrendt, Stephen C.  New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1990. 166-179.

Fort, Garrett and Francis Edwards Faragoh. Frankenstein. Screenplay. Universal Pictures Corporation August 12, 1931.

Frankenstein. Ed. Philip J. Riley. Universal Filmscripts Series. Classic Horror Films. Vol. 1. New Jersey: Magiclmage Filmbooks, 1989.

Grant, Michael. "James Whale's Frankenstein: The Horror Film and the Symbolic Biology of the Cinematic Monster."  Frankenstein/Mary Shelley. Ed.  Botting, Fred. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. 113-35.

Jones, Stephen. The Frankenstein Scrapbook; The Complete Movie Guide to the World's Most Famous Monster. New York: Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group, 1995.

Lanza, Joseph. "Frankenstein." International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Nicholas Thomas. 2nd Ed. Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1990. 322-324.

Mank, Gregory William. It's Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein. San Diego and New A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1981.

Mank, Gregory.  "Little Maria Remembers" Films in Review 43 (9-10) (Sep/Oct92) 328. (In Ebsco)

Mellor, Anne K.  "Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein." Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne K. Mellor. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. 220-232.

Mank, Gregory William. "Production Background." Frankenstein. Ed. Philip J. Riley, Universal Filmscripts Series, Classic Horror Films. Vol. 1 New Jersey: MagicImage Filmbooks, 1989. 20-41.


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Bride of Frankenstein

Brooks, Peter. "What is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)." Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Calhoun, John.  "Whale of a Tale." TCI: Theatre Crafts International 32 (10) (Nov 1998) 7. (In Ebsco)

Henderson, Jan A: Turner, George E: "Bride of Frankenstein." American Cinematographer 79(1) (January 1998) 102-109.

Additional Readings

"Bride of Frankenstein review." New York Times Review. 11 May 1935.

"The Bride of Frankenstein." Variety Film Reviews 1934-1937. Vol. 5. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1983. 15 May 1935.

Creed, Barbara. "Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection." Screen 27 (1) (1986) 44-70. (In Net Library)

Erickson, Glenn "The Bride of Frankenstein." Magill's Survey of Cinema. First Series. Vol. 1. Ed. Frank Magill. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Salem Press, 1980. 224.

Manguel, Alberto. Bride of Frankenstein. London: British Film Institute, 1997.

Brunas, Michael, John Brunas and Tom Weaver. Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931 - 1946. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, Incorporated, 1990.


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Evil of Frankenstein

Hutchings, Peter. Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Additional Readings

"The Evil of Frankenstein." The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies. Eds. Phil Hardy, Tom Milne and Paul Willemen. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. 161.

Johnson, Tom and Deborah Del Vecchio. Hammer Films, An Exhaustive Filmography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1996.

Marrero, Robert. Horrors of Hammer. Key West, Florida: RGM Publications, 1984.

Maxford, Howard. Hammer, House of Horror, Behind the Screams. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1996.

"Hammer's Cosy Violence." Sight & Sound 6 (8) (Aug 1996) 10.

Robinson, David. "Hammer Horror." Sight & Sound 4 (11) (Nov 1994) 76.


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Frankenstein Must be Destroyed

Jensen, Paul.  The Men Who Made the Monsters. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Additional Readings

"Hammer's Cosy Violence." Sight & Sound 6 (8) (Aug 1996) 10.

Hutchings, Peter. Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993.

Johnson, Tom and Deborah Del Vecchio. Hammer Films, An Exhaustive Filmography. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, 1996.

Maxford, Howard. Hammer, House of Horror, Behind the Screams. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1996.

Marrero, Robert. Horrors of Hammer. Key West, Florida: RGM Publications, 1984.

Robinson, David. "Hammer Horror." Sight & Sound 4 (11) (Nov 1994) 76.


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Frankenstein 1970

Halliwell, Leslie. The Dead that Walk: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and Other Famous Monsters. New York: Continuum, 1988.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.


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Shadow of Doubt

Gordon, P.   “Sometimes a Cigar Is Not Just a Cigar - A Freudian Analysis of Uncle-Charles in Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt   Literature-Film Quarterly 19 (4) (1991) 267-276. (In Ebsco)

McLaughlin, J. B.  “All in the Family - Shadow of a Doubt.”  Wide Angle 4 (1) (1980).

Additional Readings

Bannon, B.    “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble - Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt and North by Northwest.”  Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 34 (3) (1980).  

Blank, Martin.  “Wilder, Hitchcock, and Shadow of a Doubt.”  Thornton Wilder: New Essays. Ed. Blank, Martin. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1999.

Carson, Diane.   “The Nightmare World of Hitchcock's Women.”  The Kingdom of Dreams in Literature and Film.  Ed.  Douglas Fowler   (1986). (In Net Library)

Crogan, Patrick.  "Between Heads: Thoughts on the Merry Widow Tune in Shadow of a Doubt." Senses of Cinema 6 (May 2000).

Hemmeter, Thomas.  “Hitchcock the Feminist: Rereading Shadow of a Doubt.”  Hitchcock Annual (1993) 12-27.

Hitchcock, Alfred. Hitchcock on Hitchcock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. (In Net Library)

Michie, Elsie.  “Unveiling Maternal Desires: Hitchcock and American Domesticity.”  Hitchcock's America.  Ed. Freedman, Jonathan and Richard Millington.  (1999).

Sloan, Kay.   “Three Hitchcock Heroines: The Domestication of Violence.”   New Orleans Review 12 (4) (1985 Winter) 91-95.

Turner, George. “Hitchcock's Mastery Is Beyond Doubt in Shadow.”  American Cinematographer 74 (May 1993) 62-7.

Wood, Bret.   “Foreign correspondence: the rediscovered war films of Alfred Hitchcock.”  Film Comment  29 (July/Aug. '93) 54-8.

Wood, Robin.   “Ideology, Genre, Auteur.”  Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings.  Ed. Braudy, Leo and Marshall Cohen  (1999).


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Matrix
Lavery, D. “From Cinespace to Cyberspace - Zionists and Agents, Realists and Gamers in The Matrix and eXistenz.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 28 (4) (Win 2001) 150-157.

Barnett, P.C.  “Reviving Cyberpunk: (Re)constructing the Subject and Mapping Cyberspace In the Wachowski Brothers's Film The Matrix.” Extrapolation 41 (4) (Win 2000) 359-374. (IN LION: Literature Online)

Zizek, S.  “The 'Matrix' or Malebranche in Hollywood.”  Philosophy Today 43 (1999) 11-26.

Additional Readings

Simpkins, Rebekah. “Visualizing Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation through Matrix.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 30 (4) (2000 Sept) 6-9.

Ouellet, Pierre. “The Matrix: Towards a Perfect Semiotic.” The Image of the Twentieth Century in Literature, Media, and Society. Ed. Kaplan, Steven. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2000. 358-66.

Caster, Peter “The Matrix, Crisis Cinema, and Threatening Change.” The Image of the Twentieth Century in Literature, Media, and Society. Ed. Kaplan, Steven. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2000. 45-48.

Freeman, David S. “Why the Matrix Works: Theme.” Creative Screenwriting 7 (2) (2000 Mar-Apr) 18-19.

McGuirk, C.  The E-files  - An Informal Debate on the Merits of the Film The 'Matrix'.”  Science-Fiction Studies 26 (2) (1999) 346-349.

Newman, K.  “Rubber Reality.”  Sight and Sound 9 (1999) 8-9.

“150 35mm SLRs to Make Movie!” Popular Photography 63 (7) (July 1999) 16.

Strick, P.  “The Matrix.” Sight and Sound 9 (7) (JUL 1999) 46-47.

Bowman, James. “The Matrix.”  The American Spectator  32 (6) (June 1999) 64-5.(In Wilson Select)

Corliss, Richard. “The Matrix.”  Time 153 (15) (Apr. 19, 1999) 75-6.(In Wilson Select)

Gliatto, Tom. “The Matrix.”   People Weekly 51 (12) (Apr. 5 1999) 39. (In Wilson Select)

Schickel, Richard. “The Matrix.”   Time 153 (13) (Apr. 5 1999) 68.      (In Wilson Select)

Miller, Edward D. "The Matrix and The Medium's Message." Social Policy 30 (4) (Summer 2000) 56-9. (In Wilson Select)


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Imitation of Life

Harris, Tina M. ; Donmoyer, Deidra.   “Is Art Imitating Life?: Communicating Gender and Racial Identity in Imitation of Life.” Women's Studies in Communication 23 (1) (Winter 2000) 91-109.
(In Wilson Select)

Kuhn, Annette. "Women's Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera and Theory." Screen 25 (1) (1984) 18-28. (In Net Library)

Smith, Valerie. "Reading the Intersection of Race and Gender in Narratives of Passing." Diacritics 24 (2-3) (Summer-Fall 1994) 43-57.

Heung, M.   “What's the Matter-with-Sara-Jane, Daughters and Mothers in Douglas Sirk Imitation of Life.”  Cinema Journal 26 (3) (1987) 21-43.

Flitterman Lewis S. “The Black Woman's Double Determination as Troubling 'Other'” Literature and Psychology 34 (4) (1988) 44-57.

Selig M. E. “Contradiction and Reading - Social-Class and Sex Class in Imitation of Life.” Wide Angle 10 (4) (1988)13-23.

Klinger, Barbara.  Melodrama and Meaning History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk.  Boulder: NetLibrary, Inc 1999. (In Net Library)

Imitating Life: Conference Bibliography

Additional Readings

Butler, Jeremy G.  "Imitation of Life (1934 and 1959): Style and the Domestic Melodrama." Jump Cut 32 (1986) 25-28.

Camper, Fred. "The Films of Douglas Sirk."  Screen 12 (2) (Summer 1971) 44-62.

Conroy, Marianne. "'No Sin in Looking Prosperous': Gender, Race, and the Class Formations of Middlebrow Taste in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life." The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class. Ed.  David E. James and Rick Berg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Dyer, Richard. "Imitation of Life." Movie 25 (1977) 47-52.

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. "Imitation of Life." Imitation of Life. Ed. Fischer, Lucy.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991.

Fischer, Lucy, ed. Imitation of Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991.

Fischer, Lucy. “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Imitation of Life.” Post Script 10 (2) (1991) 5-13.

Fischer, Lucy. "Postmodernity and Postmaternity: High Heels and Imitation of Life." Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. 162-178.

Gallagher, Tag. “White Melodrama: Douglas Sirk.”  Film Comment 16 (1) (Nov 1998).

Handzo, Stephen.  "Imitations of Lifelessness - Sirk's Ironic Tearjerker." Bright Lights 18 (March 1997).

Kenesha, Ellen. "Sirk: There's Always Tomorrow and Imitation of Life." Women and Film 2 (1972) 51-55.

McKegney, Michael. "Film Favorites: Imitation of Life." Film Comment 8 (2) (1972) 71-73.

Mulvey, Laura.   Douglas Sirk.   Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival 1972.

Thaggert, Miriam.  “Divided images: Black female spectatorship and John Stahl's Imitation of Life.” African American Review  32 (3) (Fall 1998) 481-91.

Thomson, David.  “Turner Loose: A Life Of Imitation.”  Film Comment 24 (May/June '88) 28-31.

Willemen, Paul. "Distanciation and Douglas Sirk."  Screen 12 (2) (Summer 1971) 63-7.

Willemen, Paul. "Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System." Screen 13 (4) (1972-3) 128-34.


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Psycho

Klinger, Barbara. "Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality." Wide Angle 5 (1) (1982) 49-55.

Negra, Diane. "Coveting the Feminine: Victor Frankenstein, Norman Bates, and Buffalo Bill." Literature/ Film Quarterly 24 (2) (1996) 193-200. (In Wilson Select)

Additional Readings

Bellour, Raymond "Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion." Camera Obscura (1979) 104-132.

Cohen, Keith. "Psycho: The Suppression of Female Desire (and Its Return)." in Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. Ed. James Phelan. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1989) 147-161.

Gough-Yates, Kevin “Private Madness and Public Lunacy.” Films & Filming 18 (5) (1972) 26-30.

Hendershot, Cyndy. "The Cold War Horror Film: Taboo and Transgression in The Bad Seed, The Fly, and Psycho." Journal of Popular Film and Television 29 (1) (Spring 2001) 20-31.

Hesling, W. “Classical Cinema and the Spectator.” Literature/Film Quarterly 15 (3) (1987) 181-189.

Morris, Christopher D. "Psycho's Allegory of Seeing." Literature/Film Quarterly 24 (1) (1996) 47-51. (In Wilson Select)

Naremore, James. Filmguide to Psycho. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press, 1973.

Roth, Marty. “Remembering Psycho.” North Dakota Quarterly 62 (3) (1994-1995) 161-74.

Sullivan, K. E. "Ed Gein and the Figure of the Transgendered Serial Killer." Jump Cut 43 (2000) 38-47.(In Wilson Select)

Telotte, J.P. "Faith and Idolatry in the Horror Film." Literature/Film Quarterly 8 (3) (1980) 143-155.

Toles, George. “‘If Thine Eye Offend Thee . . .’: Psycho and the Art of Infection." New Literary History 15 (3) (1984) 631-651.


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Strawberry and Chocolate

West, D. “Strawberry and Chocolate, Ice-Cream and Tolerance – Interviews with Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio.” Cineaste 21 (1-2) (1995) 16-20.

Birringer, Johannes and Gabriela M. Cambiasso. “Homosexuality and the Nation: An Interview with Jorge Perugorria.” TDR 40 (1996) 61-76.

Bejel, E. “Strawberry and Chocolate.” South Atlantic Quarterly 96 (1) (1997) 65-82.

Kaufman, F.  “Polemical Pillow Talk, Strange Bedfellows in 'Strawberry and Chocolate'  Aperture 141 (Fall 1995) 70-71.

Additional Readings

Birringer, Johannes. “Homosexuality and the Revolution: an Interview with Jorge Perugorria.” Cineaste 21 (1-2) (1995) 21-2.

Smith, J. “Thomas Gutirrez Alea Strawberry and Chocolate - The 1st Film to Focus on Cuban Homosexuality.” Sight and Sound 4 (12) (1994) 30-33.

Toledo, T. “Conversation with Senel Paz Screenwriter of Strawberry and Chocolate.” Sight and Sound 4 (12) (1994) 33-34.


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Pretty Woman

Greenberg, H. R. “Pretty Woman Co-opted Feminism.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 19 (1) (1991) 9-13. (In Ebsco)

Kelley, Karol. “A Modern Cinderella.” Journal of American Culture 17 (1994) 87-92.

Dalla, Rochelle L. "Exposing the 'Pretty Woman' Myth: A Qualitative Examination of the Lives of Female Streetwalking Prostitutes."  The Journal of Sex Research 37(4) (Nov. 2000) 344-53.(In Wilson Select)

Additional Readings

Caputi, J. “Sleeping with the Enemy as Pretty Woman Part II? Or What Happened After the Princess Woke Up.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 19 (1) (1991) 2-8. (In Ebsco)

Cooks, Leda M., Mark P. Orbe and Carol S. Bruess, “The Fairy Tale Theme in Popular Culture: A Semiotic Analysis of Pretty Woman.” Women's Studies in Communication 16 (2) (1993) 86-104.

Doherty, T. “Pretty Woman.” Cineaste 18 (1) (1990) 40-41. (In Ebsco)

Jaehne, Karen. “Hooker.” Film Comment 23 (1987) 25-32.

Madison, D. Soyini. “Pretty Woman through the Triple Lens of Black Feminist Spectatorship.” in From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells (Indiana UP, Bloomington 1995) 224-35. (In Net Library)

Magill, Marcia. “Pretty Woman.” Films in Review 41 (1990) 359.         (In Ebsco)

Miner, Madonne. "No Matter What They Say, It's All About Money."  Journal of Popular Film & Television 20 (1) (Spring 1992) 8. (In Ebsco)

Scala, Elizabeth. “Pretty Woman: The Romance of the Fair Unknown, Feminism, and Contemporary Romantic Comedy.” Film and History 29 (1-2) (1999) 34-45.

Smith, Claude J., Jr. “Bodies and Minds for Sale: Prostitution in Pretty Woman and Indecent Proposal.” Studies in Popular Culture 19 (3) (1997) 91-99.


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LA Confidential

Hoberman J. “Tale of Two Cities.” The Village Voice 42 (38) (9/23/97) 85. (In Ebsco)

Arthur, P. “L.A. Confidential.” Cineaste 23 (3) (1998) 41. (In Wilson Select)

Lyons, Donald. “L.A. Confidential.” Film Comment 33 (6) (1997) 10.

Additional Readings

Argy, Stephanie, Chris Pizzello and Stephen Pizzello. “True luminaries.” American Cinematographer 79 (6) (1998) 88-90.(In Wilson Select)

Bowman, James. “L.A. Confidential.” The American Spectator 30 (1997) 66. (In Wilson Select)

Calhoun, John.  L.A. Confidential.” TCI 31 (Oct. 1997) 32-5.(In Wilson Select)

Dargis, Manohla. “N FOR NOIR.” Sight & Sound 7 (7) (1997) 28.

Maslin, Janet. "L.A. Confidential." New York Times 146 (262) (Fri, Sept 19, 1997) B1(N), E1(L), col 2, 23 col in.

McCarthy, Todd. "L.A. Confidential." Daily Variety (May 15, 1997). (In Lexus Nexus)

Taubin, Amy “L.A. LURID.” Sight & Sound. 7 (11) (1997) 6.

Thompson, Cliff.  "L.A. Confidential" Cineaste 23 (2) (Dec 1997) 64.   (In Ebsco)

Women in Film Noir. E. Ann Kaplan. London : British Film Institute, 1998.

Wrathall, John. “L.A. Confidential.” Sight & Sound 7 (Nov. '97) 45-6.


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Pi

Sinker, M. "Pi." Sight and Sound 9 (1) (Jan 1999) 52.

"Pi."  American Cinematographer 79 (4) (Apr. 1998) 101-3.

Other Periodical Reviews

Entertainment weekly, no.441(July 17 1998)

Listener, v.171no.3101(Oct.16 1999)

Metro, no.221(Nov.1999)

New musical express, 9 Jan., 1999

New Zealand herald, Oct.23, 1999

Sunday star-times, Oct.17, 1999


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Beloved

Wilmington, Michael.  Beloved.” Film Comment  34 (6) (Nov 1998) 79-80.

Tibbetts JC.   “Oprah's belabored 'Beloved'.” Literature-Film Quarterly 27 (1) (1999) 74-76.
(In Wilson Select)

Hudson-Weems, Clenora.  Beloved: From Novel to Movie.” The Western Journal of Black Studies 23 (3) (Fall 1999) 203.

Additional Readings

Davis, Natalie Zemon.  Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.

O'Sullivan, Charlotte, “Beloved.” Sight & Sound 9 (3) (Mar. 1999)  34-7.

"Enough About Slavery." Time (Nov 2, 1998) 56.

Pinkerton, James P. "A Cultural Salvo, Not a True Epic." Los Angeles Times (Sun, Oct 15, 1998) b9, col 3, 14 col in.

Mitchell, Elvis.  “Desires That Fall Between the Chasm of Head and Heart.”  The New York Times Feb 4 2000, B16(N) pE16(L), col 1.


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Son of Frankenstein

Brooks, Peter. "What is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)." Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Jensen, Paul.  The Men Who Made the Monsters. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Additional Readings

Everson, William K. Classics of the Horror Film. New York: Citadel Press, 1995.

Brunas, Michael, John Brunas and Tom Weaver. Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931 - 1946. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, Incorporated, 1990.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Tropp, Martin. Mary Shelley's Monster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976.


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Frankenstein Created Woman

Johnson, Tom and Deborah Del Vecchio. Hammer Films, An Exhaustive Filmography. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, 1996.

Marrero, Robert. Horrors of Hammer. Key West, Florida: RGM Publications, 1984.

Additional Readings

Maxford, Howard. Hammer, House of Horror, Behind the Screams. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1996.

Elder, John. Frankenstein Created Woman. Unpublished Script. London: Hammer Film Productions, 1966.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.


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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Hutchings, Peter. Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993.

Johnson, Tom and Deborah Del Vecchio. Hammer Films, An Exhaustive Filmography. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, 1996.

Hardy, Phil, Tom Milne and Paul Willemen. Eds. The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1986.

Additional Readings

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.


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House of Frankenstein

Glut, Donald. The Frankenstein Legend: A Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1973.

Mank, Gregory William. It's Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein. San Diego and New A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1981.

Additional Readings

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Lowe, Edward T. "House of Frankenstein." Screenplay. House of Frankenstein. Ed. Philip J. Riley. Universal Filmscripts Series. Classic Horror. Vol. 6. Atlantic City, Hollywood: Magiclmage Filmbooks, 1991.


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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Heffernan, James A. W. "Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film." Critical Inquiry 24 (1997): 133-158.

Picart, Caroline Joan S. "Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films." Pacific Coast Philology 35 (2000) 17-34.

Pearson Jr., Harry.  "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Films in Review 46 (1-2) (Jan/Feb95) 58. (In Ebsco)

Additional Readings

Branagh, Kenneth. "A Tale for All Time." Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Kenneth Branagh. Screenplay by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont. New York: Newmarket Press, 1994. 9-10.

Branagh, Kenneth. 'Frankenstein Reimagined." Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Branagh, Kenneth. Screenplay by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont. New York: Newmarket Press, 1994. 17-29

Branagh, Kenneth. "The Filmmakers and their Creations." Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Kenneth Branagh, Screenplay by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont. New York: I. Newmarket Press, 1994. 142-178.

Burchill, Julie. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." The Sunday Times. 6 November 1994. 6, 10.

Denby, David. "What's Up, Docs?" New York. 14 November 1994.

Hunter, David. "Frankly Lousy: Don't Shell Out the Bucks for the Latest Shelley Adaptation." Los Angeles Village View. 4-10 November 1994.

Jaques, Bob. "Creature Feature." Screen International 4 (November 1994) 34.

Lady, Steph and Frank Darabont. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Screenplay. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Kenneth Branagh. New York: Newmarket Press, 1994. 30-140.

Parker, Daniel et al. "Making Frankenstein and the Monster." Sight and Sound 4 (11) (1994) 6-9.

Pincus, Elizabeth. "Skin Flick: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Hideous Beauty of the Beast," Los Angeles Weekly, 4 November 1994.


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