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Altman, Rick. “The American Film Musical as Dual-Focus Narrative.” In Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steven Cohan, ed London & New York: Routledge, 2002,  41-51.

Altman, Rick. “The Musical”. In The Oxford History of World Cinema. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 294-303.

Altman, Rick. The American Film Musical. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1987.

Altman, Rick. Genre: The Musical. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

Arbuthnot, Lucie and Gail Seneca. “Pre-Text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” In Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steven Cohan, ed. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 77-85.

Babington, B. and Evans, P. W. Blue Skies and Silver Linings: Aspects of the Hollywood Musical. Manchester: Manchester U. P., 1985.

Barrios, Richard. A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Clover, Carol J. “Dancin’ in the Rain.” In Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steve Cohan, ed. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 157-173.

Cohan, Steven. Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value and the MGM Musical. Duke U.P., 2005.

Cohan, Steven, ed. Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. London & New York: Routledge, 2002.

Cohan, Steven. “‘Feminizing’ the Song-and-Dance Man: Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical.” Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 87-101.

Collins, J. M. “The Musical.” In The Handbook of American Film Genres. W. D. Gehring. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998, 269-84.

Delameter, J. Dance in the Hollywood Musical. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981.

Dyer, Richard. “Entertainment and Utopia.” In Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steven Cohan, ed. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 19-30

Dyer, Richard. “The Sound of Music”, Movie no. 23 (1976/77).

Dyer, Richard. “A Star Is Born and the construction of authenticity”. In Star Signs Christine Gledhill, ed. London: BFI Education, 1982.

Feuer, Jane. “The Self-Reflective Musical and the Myth of Entertainment,” In Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steven Cohan, ed. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 31-40.

Feuer, Jane. The Hollywood Musical. 2nd edition. Bloomington: Indiana U. P., 1993.

Flinn, Caryl. Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Grant, B. K. “The Classic Hollywood Musical and the ‘Problem’ of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 13. 4 (1986), 195-205.

Kobal, John. Gotta Sing Gotta Dance: A Pictorial History of Film Musicals. London, Sydney, New York, Toronto: Hamlyn, 1973 (1971).

Lawson-Peebles, R., ed. Approaches to the American Musical. Exeter: Exeter U. P., 1996.

Marshall, Bill and Stilwell, Robynn, eds. Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond. Portand, OR & Exeter, Engl.: Intellect TM. , 2000.

Mast, G. Can’t Help Singin’: The American Musical on Stage and Screen. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1987.

Medhurst, Andy. “The musical”. In The Cinema Book. Pam Cook, ed. London: BFI, 1992, 106-112.

Mellencamp, Patricia. “Sexual Economics: Gold Diggers of 1933”. In Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steven Cohan, ed. London & New York: Routledge, 2002, 65-76.

Neale, Steave. “Musicals”. Genre and Hollywood. London & New York: Routledge,2000, 104-112.

Roberts, S. “‘The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat’: Carmen Miranda, a Spectacle of Ethnicity,” Cinema Journal  32. 3 (1993), 3-23.

Sanjjek, R. Pennies From Heaven: The American Popular Music Business in the Twentieth Century. New York: Da Capo, 1996 (1988).

Schatz, Thomas. “The Musical”. Hollywood Genres. New York: Random House, 1981, 186-220.

Smith, Susan. The Musical: Race, Gender and Performance. London and New York: Wallflower, 2005.

Stearns, M. and Stearns J. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Da Capo, 1994 (1968).

Telotte, J. P.”Ideology and the Kelly-Donen musicals,” Film Criticism 8. 3. (1984)

Wood, Michael. “Darkness in the Dance”. America in the Movies, or “Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1975, 146-64.

Wood, Robin. “Art and ideology: notes on Silk Stockings”. In Genre: The Musical. Rick Altman, ed.. London: BFI Publishing/Routledge Kegan Paul, 1981.

 

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