{"id":1047,"date":"2022-05-22T00:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T00:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/sites\/masscommhistorybibliography\/?page_id=1047"},"modified":"2022-07-07T04:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:20:01","slug":"film-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/film-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Film and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back to Film<\/a> index page<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abramowitz, Rachel. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women’s Experience of Power in Hollywood<\/em>. New York: Random House, 2000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acker, Ally.\u00a0Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, 1896 to the Present<\/em>. New York: Continuum, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson Wagner, Kristen.\u00a0Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film<\/em>. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anselmo-Sequeira, Diana.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cApparitional Girlhood:\u00a0\u00a0Material Ephemerality and\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0\u00a0Historiography of\u00a0\u00a0Female Adolescence in Early American Film.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Spectator<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a033, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 25\u201335.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balcerzak, Scott.\u00a0\u00a0Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basinger, Jeanine.  A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960<\/em>.  New York: Knopf, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bean, Jennifer M., and Diane Negra, eds.  A Feminist Reader on Early Cinema.  <\/em>Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells, eds. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. <\/em>Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benshott, Harry M., and Sean Griffin.  Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America.  <\/em>Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berenstein, Rhona J. Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema. <\/em>New York, Columbia University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bull, Sofia and Astrid S. Widding. Not so Silent: Women in Cinema Before Sound<\/em>. Stockholm: Stockholms Universitet, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarke, Liz.  The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in Silent Film<\/em>. Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connolly, Matt.  \u201cLiberating the Screen: Gay and Lesbian Protests of LGBT Cinematic Representations, 1969-1974.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 57:2 (Winter 2018): 66-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooper, Mark Garrett.\u00a0\u00a0Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood<\/em>.\u00a0 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corber, Robert J.\u00a0\u00a0Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, Mary R. Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doane, Mary Ann.  The Desire to Desire: The Woman\u2019s Film of the 1940s<\/em>.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunn, Stephane.  Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erens, Patricia, ed.  Sexual Stratagems: The World of Women in Film<\/em>. New York: Horizon Press, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francke, Lizzie. Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood<\/em>. London: British Film Institute, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerstner, David A.  Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gledhill, Christine and Julia Knight, eds. Doing Women\u2019s Film History. Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future<\/em>. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good, Howard.  Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies<\/em>.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant, Gary Keith, ed.  The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film<\/em>, 2nd<\/sup> ed.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greven, David.  Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman\u2019s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror<\/em>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallett, Hilary.  Go West, Young Woman: The Rise of Early Hollywood<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hastie, Amelie. Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History<\/em>. Duke University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoffman, Alison Rene. \u201cOur Bodies, Our Cameras: Women\u2019s Experimental Cinema in the U.S., 1964\u20131976.\u201d   PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holliday, Wendy. \u201cHollywood and Modern Women: Screenwriting, Work Culture, and Feminism, 1910-1940.\u201d PhD Dissertation. New York University, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horak, Laura.  Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema.  <\/em>New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacobs, Lea.  The Wages of Sin: Censorship in the Fallen Woman Film<\/em>.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan, Jessica Hope.  The Sex Goddess in American Film 1930-1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield<\/em>.  Amherst NY: Cambria Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juhasz, Alexandra. Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaplan, E.A. Feminism and Film<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karlyn, Kathleen R. Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen<\/em>. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenaga, Heidi. “Making the ‘Studio Girl’: The Hollywood Studio Club and Industry Regulation of Female Labor.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 18, no. 2 (2006): 129-139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knight, Julia, and Christine Gledhill.  Doing Women\u2019s Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future.<\/em> Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kowalski, Rosemary Ann Ribich. Women and Film: A Bibliography. <\/em>Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, Peter W.Y.  From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors: Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowe, Denise. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films<\/em>, 1895\u20131930<\/em>. New York: Haworth, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahar, Karen Ward.  Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peirse, Alison, ed.  Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, and Genre<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petro, Patrice. Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History<\/em>. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potter, Susan. Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. <\/em>Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pribram, E. Diedre.  Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television<\/em>.  New York: Verso, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabinovitz, Lauren.  For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn of the Century Chicago<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabinovitz, Lauren.\u00a0Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-1971<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regester, Charlene B.\u00a0\u00a0African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich, B. Ruby.  Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robertson, Pamela. Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna<\/em>. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1996. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosen, Marjorie.  Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream<\/em>.  New York: Avon Books, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russo, Vito.  The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies<\/em>.  New York Harper and Row, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shore, Amy. Suffrage and the Silver Screen. <\/em>New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slide, Anthony.  The Silent Feminists: America\u2019s First Women Directors<\/em>.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slide, Anthony. “Early Women Filmmakers: The Real Numbers.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 24, no. 1 (2012): 114-121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Sharon. Women Who Make Movies.<\/em> New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stamp, Shelly.  Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon<\/em>.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studlar, Gaylyn.  \u201cThe Perils of Pleasure? Fan Magazine Discourse on Women\u2019s Commodified Culture in the 1920s.\u201d Wide Angle<\/em> 13:1 (1991): 6-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studlar, Gaylyn.\u00a0\u00a0Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tapert, Stephen.\u00a0\u00a0Best Actress: The History of Oscar-Winning Women<\/em>. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wagner, Kristen Anderson. Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film. <\/em>Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren, Shilyh.  Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welch, Rosanne, ed. When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry<\/em>. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White, Patricia.\u00a0\u00a0Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Respectability<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wuest, Bryan. \u201cDefining Homosexual Love Stories: Pat Rocco, Categorization, and the Legitimation of Gay Narrative Film.\u201d\u00a0Film History<\/em>\u00a029:4 (2017): 59-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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