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Selective Subject Bibliographies of Film
by Paul J. Spaeth

3. Ethnic & Social Groups

General

Lester Friedman (ed.) Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Ellen Summerfield. Crossing Cultures Through Film. Yarmouth , ME : Intercultural Press, 1993.

Ellen Summerfield & Sandra Lee. Seeing the Big Picture: Exploring American Cultures on Film. Yarmouth , ME : Intercultural Press, 2001.

Afro-Americans & Blacks

Donald Bogle. Toms, Coons, Mulatoes, Mammies and Blacks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New Expanded ed. New York : Continuum, 1989 [1973].

Mbye Chan & Claire Andra de-Watkins (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press, 1988.

Thomas Cripps. Black Film as Genre. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1978.

Thomas Cripps. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.

Manthia Diawara (ed.) Black American Cinema. London : Routledge, 1993.

Anna Everett. Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949. Durham , NC : Duke University Press, 2001.

Ed Guerrero. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.

Erich Leon Harris. African-American Screen-writers Now: Conversations with Hollywood ’s Black Pack. Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, 1996.

Phyllis Klotman & Janet Cutler (eds.) Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999.

Mikel J. Koven. Blaxploitation Films. Pocket Essentials, 2001.

Daniel J. Leab. From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Edward Mapp. Blacks in American Films: Today and Yesterday. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1972.

Richard A. Maynard (ed.) Africa on Film: Myth and Reality. Rochelle Park, NJ:  Hayden, 1974.

Richard A. Maynard (ed.) The Black Man on Film. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden, 1974.

James P. Murray. To Find an Image: Black Films from Uncle Tom to Super Fly. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

Peter Noble. The Negro in Films. New York : Arno , 1970.

Gary Null. Black Hollywood : The Negro in Motion Pictures. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1975.

Lindsay Patterson (ed.) Black Films and Film-makers: A Comprehensive Anthology From Stereotype to Superhero. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1975.

Jim Pines. Blacks in Film: A Survey of Racial Themes and Images in the American Film. London : Studio Vista , 1975.

Ann Powers. Blacks in American Movies: A Select Bibliography. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1974.

Vincent F. Rocchio. Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood ’s Construction of Afro-American Culture. Boulder , CO : Westview, 2000.

Michael Rogin. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.

Henry T. Sampson. Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1977.

S. Craig Watkins. Representing: Hip op Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Arabs

Jack G, Shaheen. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People. New York : Olive Branch Press, 2001.

Hispanics

Charles Ramirez Berg. Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, Resistance. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

Gary D. Keller. A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film. Tempe , AZ : Bilingual Press, 1997.

Chon Noriega (ed.) Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance. Minneapolis , MN : University of Minnesota , 1992.

Allen L. Woll. The Latin Image in American Film. Los Angeles : UCLA Latin American Center , 1977.

Native Americans

Gretchen Bataille & Charles L. P. Silet. Images of American Indians on Film: An Annotated Bibliography. New York : Garland , 1985.

Gretchen Bataille & Charles L. P. Silet (eds.). The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies. Ames : Iowa State University , 1980.

Jacquelyn Kilpatrick. Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Films. Lincoln : University of Nebraska , 1999.

Ann Fienup-Riordan. Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2003 [1995]

Ralph E. & Natasha A. Friar. The Only Good Indian ... The Hollywood Gospel. New York : Drama Book Specialists, 1972.

Michael Hilger. The American Indian in Film. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1986.

Michael Hilger. From Savage to Nobleman: Images of Native Americans in Film. Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 1995.

Peter C. Rollins & John E. O’Conner (eds.) Hollywood ’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film. Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1998.

Jack Spears. "The Indian on the Screen" Hollywood : The Golden Era. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1971 (361-396)

Women

Jeanne Belancourt. Women in Focus. Dayton , Ohio : Pflaum, 1974.

Giuliana Bruno & Maria Nadotti (eds.) Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy . London : Routledge, 1988.

Charlotte Brunsdon (ed.) Films for Women. London : BFI, 1986.

Pam Cook & Philip Dodd (eds.) Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.

Jo Fox. Filming Women in the Third Reich. Oxford : Berg, 2000.

Brandon French. On the Verge of Revolt: Women in American Film of the Fifties. New York : Ungar, 1978.

Molly Haskell. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974.

Lea Jacobs. The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

E. Ann Kaplan. Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera. New York : Methuen , 1983.

E. Ann Kaplan (ed.) Women in Film Noir. New ed. London : BFI, 1998.

Karyn Kay & Gerald Peary (eds.) Women and the Cinema: A Critical Anthology. New York : Dutton, 1977.

Rosemary Ribich Kowalski. Women and Film: A Bibliography. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1976.

Annette Kuhn (ed.) The Woman's Companion to International Film. London : Virago, 1990.

Annette Kuhn. Women’s Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. London : Verso, 1993 [1982]

Antonia Lant. Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema. Princeton University Press, 1991.

Martha McCaughey & Neal King (eds.) Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.

Joan Mellen. Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film. New York : Horizon Press, 1973.

Jacinda Read. The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity and the Rape Revenge Cycle. Manchester University Press, 2000.

Anthony Slide. Early Women Directors. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1977.

Sharon Smith. Women Who Make Movies. New York : Hopkins & Blake, 1975.

Dawn B. Sova. Women in Hollywood : From Vamp to Studio Head. NY: Fromm International, 1998.

Jackie Stacy. Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship. London : Routledge, 1994.

Kaye Sullivan. Films For, By and About Women. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1980.

Janet Todd (ed.) Women and Film. New York : Holmes & Meier, 1988

Amy L. Unterburger (ed.) Women Filmmakers & Their Films. Detroit : St. James Press, 1998.

Janice R. Welch. Film Archetypes: Sisters, Mistresses, Mothers and Daughters. New York : Arno , 1978.