Selected Bibliography: Books 

Aguila, Richard. ed. Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

Beja, Morris. Film & literature, an introduction. NY: Longman, 1979. PN1995.3

Bobo, Jacqueline. Black women as cultural readers. NY: Columbia UP, 1995. PN1995.9 .N4 B57

Boggs, Joseph M., and William K. Jackson. The art of watching films: a guide to film analysis. Menlo Park, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., 1978. PN1995 .B525

Braudy, Leo. The world in a frame: what we see in films. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor P, 1976. PN1995 .B72

Carson, Diane, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, eds. Multiple voices in feminist film criticism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. PN1995.9 .W6 M82

Costanzo, William V. Reading the movies: twelve great films on video and how to teach them. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1992. PN1993.7 .C6

Coyle, William. ed. Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.

Davis, Robert M. Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1992.

Dick, Bernard F. Hellman in Hollywood. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1982. PS3515 .E343 Z63

Dixon, Wheeler W. Archetypes of the Heavy in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Bowling Green: Popular, 1990.

- - -. The Cinematic Vision of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ann Arbor: Univ. Microfilms Internat. Research P, 1986.

Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. NY: Columbia UP, 1993.

Edmundson, Mark. Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.

Elder, Harris J. Writing about film. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1977. PN1995 .E496x

Fenton, Jill, et al. eds. Women Writers from Page to Screen. NY: Garland, 1990.

Fischer, Lucy. Shot/countershot: film tradition and women's cinema . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1989. PN 1995.9 .W6 F57

Gilman, Owen W., and Lorrie Smith. eds. America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. NY: Garland, 1990.

Goldstein, Laurence. The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1994.

Kane, Leslie. ed. David Mamet: A Casebook. NY: Garland, 1991.

Keller, Gary D. ed. Chicano Cinema: Research, Reviews, and Resources. Binghamton, NY: Bilingual, 1985.

Kinder, Marsha, and Beverle Houston. Close up; a critical perspective on film. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1972. PN1994 .K466

Laurence, Frank M. Hemingway and the movies. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1981.PS3515.E37 Z689

Lupack, Barbara T. Vision/Revision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1996.

- - -. Take Two: Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1994.

| Top | Manvell, Roger. Theater and film: a comparative study of the two forms of dramatic art, and of the problems of adaptation of stage plays into films. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1979. PN1997.85 .M25

McCreadie, Marsha. Women on film: the critical eye. New York, N.Y.: Praeger, 1983. PN1995 .M377

McMahan, Elizabeth, Robert Funk, and Susan Day. The elements of writing about literature and film. NY: Macmillan, 1988. PN81 .M494

Mitchell, Lee C. Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 1996.

Noriega, Chon A. Chicanos and film: essays on Chicano representation and resistance. NY: Garland Pub., 1992. PN1995.9 .M49 N67

Palmer, R. Barton. The Cinematic text: methods and approaches. NY: AMS P, 1989. PN1995 .C535

Phillips, Gene D. Hemingway and film. NY: Ungar, 1980. PS3515 .E37 Z754

- - -. Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1988.

Phillips, William H. Analyzing films: a practical guide. NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985. PN1995 .P498

Rodowick, David N. The crisis of political modernism: criticism and ideology in contemporary film theory. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988 PN1995 .R618

Sinyard, Neil. Filming literature: the art of screen adaptation. NY: St. Martin's P, 1986. PN1997.85 .S5

Smith, Ronald L. Poe in the Media: Screen, Songs, and Spoken Word Recordings. NY: Garland, 1990.

Welsch, Janice R., and Syndy M. Conger. eds. Narrative strategies: original essays in film and prose fiction. Macomb: Western Illinois U, 1980. PN1997.85 .N3

Wilt, David. Hardboiled in Hollywood: Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1991.

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Adler, Thomas P. "'Daddy Spoke to Me!' Gods Lost and Found in Long Day's Journey into Night and Through a Glass Darkly." Comparative Drama 20.4 (Wint 1986-87): 341-48.

Bercovitch, Sacvan. "The Scarlet Letter: A Twice Told Tale." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 22.2 (Fall 1996): 1-20.

Birchard, Robert S. "Jack London and the Movies." Film Hist. 1.1 (1987): 15-37.

Birdsall, Eric. "Interpreting Henry James: Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller." Literature Film Quarterly 22.4 (1994): 272-77.

Cahir, Linda C. "The Perils of Politeness in a New Age: Edith Wharton, Martin Scorsese and The Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 10.2 (Fall 1993): 12-14, 19.

- - -. "Routinizing the Charismatic: Melville and Hollywood's Three Moby Dicks." Melville Society Extracts 110 (Sep 1997): 11-17.

- - -. "The Artful Rerouting of A Streetcar Named Desire." Literature Film Quarterly 22.2 (1994): 72-77.

Campo, Carlos. "The Role of Beyond the Forest in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" Literature Film Quarterly 22.3 (1994): 170-73.

Chandler, Karen M. "Agency and Social Constraint in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady." Henry James Review 18.2 (Sprg 1997): 191-93.

Cooper, Burton L. "Some Problems in Adapting O'Neill for Film." Eugene O'Neill's Century: Centennial Views on America's Foremost Tragic Dramatist. Ed. Richard F. Moorton. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991. 73-86

Cripps, Thomas. "Native Son, Film and Book: A Few Thoughts on a 'Classic'." Mississippi Quarterly 42.4 (Fall 1989): 425-27.

Dean, Thomas K. "The Critical Reception of Erich von Stroheim's Greed." Frank Norris Studies 9 (Sprg 1989): 7-11.

- - -. William A. Brady's 1914 Film Adaptation of Frank Norris's The Pit." Frank Norris Studies 17 (Sprg 1994): 1-7.

Dixon, Wheeler. "William Inge as Walter Gage: Bus Riley's Back in Town." Literature Film Quarterly 16.2 (1988): 101-06.

- - -. "The Site of the Body in Torture/The Sight of the Tortured Body: Contemporary Incarnations of Graphic Violence in the Cinema and the Vision of Edgar Allan Poe." Film and Philosophy 1 (1994): 62-70.

Dunne, Michael. "The Scarlet Letter on Film: Ninety Years of Revisioning." Literature Film Quarterly 25.1 (1997): 30-39.

Edgerton, Gary. "'A Breed Apart': Hollywood, Racial Stereotyping, and the Premise of Revisionism in The Last of the Mohicans." Journal of American Culture 17.2 (Sumr 1994): 1-20.

Engel, Leonard W. "Sam Peckinpah's Heroes: Natty Bumppo and the Myth of the Rugged Individual Still Reign." Literature Film Quarterly 16.1 (1988): 22-30.

Fadiman, Regina. "Hollywood's Use/Abuse of Faulkner." Mississippi Quarterly 42.3 (Sumr 1989): 333-37.

Fishbein, Leslie. "The Harlot's Progress in American Fiction and Film, 1900-1930." Women's Studies 16.3-4 (1989): 409-27.

| Top | Frank, Perry. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on Film." Huck Finn Among the Critics: A Centennial Selection. Ed. M. Thomas Inge. Frederick, MD: Univ. Pubs. of Amer., 1985. 293-313.

Gibson-Hudson, Gloria J. "African American Literary Criticism as a Model for the Analysis of Films by African American Women." Wide Angle 13.3- (1991): 44-54.

Gronbeck-Tedesco, John L. "Absence and the Actor's Body: Marlon Brando's Performance in A Streetcar Named Desire on Stage and in Film." Studies in American Drama 8.2 (1993): 115-26.

Hanks, Pamela A. "Must We Acknowledge What We Mean? The Viewer's Role in Filmed Versions of A Streetcar Named Desire." Journal of Popular Film and Television 14.3 (Fall 1986): 114-22.

Hayes, Kevin J. "American Literature, Silent Film, and the Story Within a Story." Literature Film Quarterly 27.1 (1999): 32-38.

Hussman, Lawrence E. "Dreiser's (Bad) Luck with Hollywood." Dreiser Studies 21.2 (FAll 1990): 14-16.

Kaplan, E. Ann. "Hemingway, Hollywood and Female Representation: The Macomber Affair." Literature Film Quarterly 13.1 (1985): 22-28.

Keenan, Richard. "The Sense of an Ending: Jan Kadar's Distortion of Stephen Crane's The Blue Hotel." Literature Film Quarterly 16.4 (1988): 265-68.

Kellman, Steven G. "All the World's a Movie Set: Dickey's Deliverance." South Carolina Review 26.2 (sprg 1994): 155-61.

Kodat, Catherine G. "Pulp Fictions: Reading Faulkner for the 21st Century." Faulkner Journal 12.2 (Sprg 1997): 69-86.

Kolin, Philip C. "Civil Rights and the Black Presence in Baby Doll." Literature Film Quarterly 24.1 (1996): 2-11.

Langdell, Cheri D. "Pain of Silence: Emily Dickinson's Silences, Poetic Persona and Ada's Selfhood in The Piano." Emily Dickinson Journal 5.2 (1996): 196-201.

| Top | Lawlor, Mary. "Naturalism in the Cinema: Erich von Stroheim's Reading of McTeague." Frank Norris Studies 8 (Autm 1989): 196-201.

Leff, Leonard J. "A Thunderous Reception: Broadway, Hollywood, and A Farewell to Arms." Hemingway Review 15.2 (Sprg 1996): 33-51.

Leff, Leonard J. "The Sun Almost Rises: Hemingway and the Hollywood Marketplace of Depression America." Arizona Quarterly 51.4 (Wint 1995): 45-67.

Leverenz, David. "The Last Real Man in America: From Natty Bumppo to Batman." American Literary History 3.4 (Wint 1991): 753-81.

Lindroth, Colette. "Spike Lee and the American Tradition." Literature Film Quarterly 24.1 (1996): 26-31.

Litton, Alfred G. "The Kinetoscope in McTeague: 'The Crowning Scientific Achievement of the Nineteenth Century'." Studies in American Fiction 19.1 (Sprg 1991): 107-12.

Luckett, Perry D. "The Black Soldier in Vietnam War Literature and Film." War, Literature, and the Arts 1.2 (1989-90): 1-27.

Lupton, Mary J. "Clothes and Closure in Three Novels by Black Women." Black American Literature Forum 20.4 (Wint 1986): 409-21.

Marchalonis, Shirley. "Filming the Nineteenth Century: The Secret Garden and Little Women." American Transcendental Quarterly 10.4 (Dec 1996): 273-92.

Marling, William. "Landscape in American Detective Novels and Films of the '30s." West Virginia U Philological Papers 37 (1991): 113-22.

Marsh, Joss L. "Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and The Last Tycoon: The 'American Dream' and the Hollywood Dream Factory, I." Literature Film Quarterly 20.1 (1992): 3-13.

- - -. "Fitzgerald, Gatsby and The Last Tycoon: The 'American Dream' and the Hollywood Dream Factory Part Two." Literature Film Quarterly 20.2 (1992): 102-08.

| Top | Marshall, Scott. "Edith Wharton on Film and Television: A History and Filmography." Edith Wharton Review 13.2 (Sprg 1996): 15-26.

McCraw, Harry W. "Tennessee Williams, Film, Music, Alex North: An Interview with Luigi Zaninelli." Mississippi Quarterly 48.4 (Fall 1995): 763-75.

McDowell, Margaret B. "Edith Wharton's The Old Maid: Novella/Play/Film." College Literature 14.3 (Fall 1987): 246-62.

McInerney, John. "Constructing Crane for the Screen." Stephen Crane Studies 3.2 (Fall 1994): 19-24.

Mellencamp, Patricia. "Receivable Texts: U. S. Avant Garde Cinema 1960-1980." Wide Angle 7.1-2 (1985): 74-91.

Meyer, William E. H., Jr. "From The Sun Also Rises to High Noon: The Hypervisual Great Awakening in American Literature and Film." Journal of American Culture 19.3 (Fall 1996): 25-37.

Middleton, Robert. "Humorous American Literature and the Film: A Bibliography." Studies in American Humor 4.3 (Fall 1985): 183-91.

Monteiro, George. "Stephen Crane: Dramatic, Musical, and Fictional Adaptations." Stephen Crane Studies 5.1 (Sprg 1996): 5-24.

Nadel, Alan. "The Search for Cinematic Identity and a Good Man: Jane Campion's Appropriation of James's Portrait." Henry James Review 18.2 (Sprg 1997): 180-83.

O'Brien, Sheila R. "Leaving Behind 'The Chisolm Trail' for Red River: Or, Refiguring the Female in the Western Film Epic." Literature Film Quarterly 24.2 (1996): 183-92.

Oliver, Lawrence J., and Terri L. Walker. "James Weldon Johnson's New York Age Essays on The Birth of a Nation and the 'Southern Oligarchy'." South Central Review 10.4 (Wint 1993): 1-17.

Peucker, Brigitte. "Rival Arts? Filming The Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 13.1 (Fall 1996): 19-22.

| Top | Pilipp, Frank. "Creative Incest: Cross- and Self-Referencing in Recent Hollywood Cinema." Literature Film Quarterly 27.1 (1999): 55-65.

Phillips, Gene D. "A Streetcar Named Desire: Play and Film." Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Cultural Pluralism. ED. Philip C. Kolin. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. 223-35.

Pogel, Nancy, and William Chamberlain. "Humor into Film: Self Reflections in Adaptations of Black Comic Novels." Literature Film Quarterly 13.3 (1985): 187-93.

Preu, Dana M. "Gal Young Un: A Transfer of the Seriocomic Tradition in American Literature to Film." Literature Film Quarterly 14.3 (1986): 171-80.

Recchia, Edward. "An Eye for an I: Adapting Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw' to the Screen." Literature Film Quarterly 15.1 (1987): 28-35.

Russo, Peggy A. "Uncle Walt's Uncle Remus: Disney's Distortion of Harris's Hero." Southern Literary Journal 25.1 (Fall 1992): 19-32.

Schlueter, June. "Imitating an Icon: John Erman's Remake of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire." Modern Drama 28.1 (Mar 1985): 139-47.

Simon, John. "Tennessee Williams from Stage to Screen." Collections 5 (1990): 1-21.

Singer, Ben. "Connoisseurs of Chaos: Whitman, Vertov and the 'Poetic Survey'." Literature Film Quarterly 15.4 (1987): 247-58.

Sorensen, Sue. "'Damnable Feminization'? The Merchant-Ivory Film Adaptation of Henry James's The Bostonians." Literature Film Quarterly 25.3 (1997): 231-35.

Walton, Priscilla L. "Jane and James Go to the Movies: Post Colonial Portraits of a Lady." Henry James Review 18.2 (Sprg 1997): 187-90.

Ward, L. E. "Hemingway on Film." Lost Generation Journal 9.1 (Sprg-Sumr 1989): 14-18.

- - -. "Fitzgerald and the Movies." Lost Generation Journal 8.1 (Sprg 1987): 20-23.

Weiner, Susan. "Moby Dick at the Movies." Melville Society Extracts 101 (Jun 1995): 17-18.

Williams, Tony. "Clarence E. Shurtleff Presents Jack London, 1919-1921." Wide Angle 15.3 (Jul 1993): 57-72.

Zwinger, Lynda. "Bodies That Don't Matter: The Queering of 'Henry James'." Modern Fiction Studies 41.3-4 (Fall-Wint 1995): 657-80.

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