Bibliography


Movies:



  • Born to Dance (videorecording). Culver City, CA: MGM/UA Home Video, 1990.

  • The Broadway Melody (videorecording). Culver City, CA: MGM/UA Home Video, 1999.

  • Broadway Melody of 1936 and Broadway Melody of 1938 (videorecording). Culver City, CA: MGM/UA Home Video, 1992.

  • Broadway Melody of 1940 (videorecording). NY: MGM/UA Home Video, 1987.

  • The Dawn of Sound (videorecording). Culver City, CA: MGM/UA Home Video: Turner, 1992.

  • Swing Time (videorecording). Turner Home Entertainment Co., 1988.

  • Top Hat (videorecording). Atlanta, GA: Turner Home Entertainment, 1994.


    Texts and Websites:



  • Altman, Rick. The American Film Musical. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 1987.
    This source is a structuralist approach to the musical. He shows the musical as a dual focus narrative based upon a heterosexual couple. This source is important because it is utilized as a basis for much mainstream analysis by musical scholars today.

  • Bergman, Andrew. We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films. Chicago: Elephant Paperback, 1971.

  • Castle, Terry. The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

  • A Code to Govern the Making of Motion Pictures: The Reasons Supporting It and the Resolution for Uniform Interpretation. New York: Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., 1930-1955.

  • Cooney, Terry. Balancing Acts: American Thought and Culture in the 1930s. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

  • Doty, Alexander. "Everyone's Here for Love: Bisexuality and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." In Flaming the Classics. Queering the Film Canon. (49-78) NY: Routledge, 2000.
    This text reveals another approach to movie structure and reception. Instead of choose between binaries of a female or male object, a bisexual reading allows for both female and male objects.

  • Eyles, Allen. That was Hollywood the 1930s. London: B. T. Batsford, 1987.

  • Film Index International (Web) through UVA's on-line library sources

  • Green, Stanley. Broadway Musicals: Show by Show Fourth Edition. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1994.

  • Green, Stanley. Encyclopaedia of the Musical Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  • Hadleigh, Boze. The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films: Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.

  • Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
    This book develops a historical look at how various forms of female sexuality have been defined, and states the importance of differentiating between a person's gender indentification and object of that person's desire.

  • Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York: Anchor Books, 1990.

  • Handel, Leo A. Hollywood Looks at its Audience: A Report of Film Audience Research. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1950.

  • Hellman, Lillian. Six Plays by Lillian Hellman. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

  • http://Imdb.com (movie database)

  • http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/onstage/duncanhp.html (Duncan Sisters in Topsy and Eva)

  • Kendall, Elizabeth. The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

  • Lawrence, Amy. Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

  • Mayne, Judith. Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2000.

  • McFadden, Margaret. "Anything Goes": Gender and Knowledge in the Comic Popular Culture of the 1930's. Thesis (Ph.D.): Yale University, 1996.

  • Mulvey, Laura, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975); rpt. In Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana, 1989, (14-26.)

  • Muscio, Giuliana. Hollywood's New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

  • Newton, Esther. "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman: (1984); rpt. In Hidden from History Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. Martin Bauml, Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and Geroge Chauncy, Jr. New York: NAL, 1989 (281-293).

  • Parish, James Robert. Gays and Lesbians in Mainstream Cinema: Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 272 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Hollywood Releases. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co., 1993.

  • Prosser, Jay. Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. New York: Columbia, 1998 (135-69).

  • Scharf, Lois. To Work and to Wed: Female Unemployment, Feminism and The Great Depression. Westport: 1980.
    A look at how the economics of the time also changed sexual roles during the Depression. Her inspection includes the role of marriage and how women were perceived who did not take this choice.

  • Slide, Anthony. The Encylopedia of Vaudeville. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

  • Stimpson, Catherine. "Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English: (1981); rpt. In Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Space. New York: Methuen, 1988 (97-110).

  • Susman, Warren. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

  • Wandersee, Winifred D. Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940. Cambridge, MA: 1981.

  • Ware, Susan. Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s. Boston: 1982.

  • White, Patricia. Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

  • Wolf, Stacy. "'Never Gonna Be a Man/Catch me if You Can/I Won't Grow Up': A Lesbian Account of Mary Martin as Peter Pan." Theatre Journal 49 (493-509). 1997.

  • Wolf, Stacy. "The Queer Pleasure of Mary martin and Broadway: The Sound of Music as a Lesbian Musical." Modern Drama 39 (51-64). 1996.

  • www.usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/theater.htm


    Some materials still being sought or on recall or interlibrary loan



  • Two Girls on Broadway (videorecording) (1940)

  • Barrios, Richard. A Song in the Dark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (59- 76).

  • Bergstrom, Janet. "Enunciation and Sexual Difference, Part 1." Camera Obscura, nos. 3/4 Summer, 1979 (33-69).

  • Bradley, Edwin M. The First Hollywood Musicals. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1996 (18-24).

  • Lait, Jack. The Broadway Melody. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929.

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by Abby Manzella, American Studies at the University of Virginia, Spring 2001