Anyway here's my reading list for my big film censorship project in case anyone's been wondering what I've been up to when I'm not being a stupid idiot cringey fandom blogger or whatever the jackasses think I am:
Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, by Frank Cullen
Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, by David Monod
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910, edited by Robert M. Lewis
American Vaudeville as Ritual, by Albert F. McLean Jr.
American Vaudeville As Seen by its Contemporaries, edited by Charles W. Stein
Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville, by M. Alison Kibler
The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian, by Rick DesRochers
Humor and Ethnic Stereotypes in Vaudeville and Burlesque, by Lawrence E. Mintz
"Vaudeville Indians" on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s, by Christine Bold
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the blues in African American Vaudeville, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, by Randall Stross
Edison, by Edmund Morris
The Rise and Place of the Motion Picture, by Terry Ramsaye
The Romantic History of the Motion Picture: A Story of Facts More Fascinating than Fiction, by Terry Ramsaye (Photoplay Magazine)
Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company, by Charles Musser
The Kinetoscope: A British History, by Richard Brown, Barry Anthony, and Michael Harvey
The Man Who Made Movies: W.K.L. Dickson, by Paul Spehr
A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture, by Terry Ramsaye
Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, by Charles Musser
Dancing for the Kinetograph: The Lakota Ghost Dance and the Silence of Early Cinema, by Michael Gaudio
The First Screen Kiss and "The Cry of Censorship," by Ralph S.J. Dengler
Archival Rediscovery and the Production of History: Solving the Mystery of Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898), by Allyson Nadia Field
Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship, by Barak Y. Orbach
A History of Sports Highlights: Replayed Plays from Edison to ESPN, by Raymond Gamache
A History of the Boxing Film, 1894-1915: Social Control and Social Reform in the Progressive Era, by Dan Streible
Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema, by Dan Streible
The Boxing Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History, by Travis Vogan
Policing Sexuality: the Mann Act and the Making of the FBI, by Jessica R. Pliley
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood, from Edison to Stonewall, by Richard Barrios
The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics, edited by Charles Krinsky
A Companion to Early Cinema, edited by Andre Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, and Santiago Hidalgo
The Silent Cinema Reader, edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
The Harlot's Progress: Myth and Reality in European and American Film, 1900-1934, by Leslie Fishbein
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser
Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966, by Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema From the Victorian Age to the VCR
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mick Lasalle
Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, by Mick Lasalle
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, by Thomas Doherty
Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934), When Sin Ruled the Movies, by Mark A. Vieira
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mark A. Vieira
Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration, by Thomas Doherty
The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code, by Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons
Moral House-Cleaning in Hollywood: What's it All About? An Open Letter to Mr. Will Hays, by James R. Quirk (Photoplay Magazine)
Will H. Hays - A Real Leader: A Word Portrait of the Man Selected to Head the Motion Picture Industry, by Meredith Nicholson (Photoplay Magazine)
Ignorance: An Obnoxiously Moral morality Play, Suggested by "Experience," by Agnes Smith (Photoplay Magazine)
Close-Ups: Editorial Expression and Timely Comment (Photoplay Magazine)
Children, Cinema & Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids, by Sarah J. Smith
Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981, by Laura Wittern-Keller
Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960, by Liza Black
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, by Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin
White: Essays on Race and culture, by Richard Dyer
Black American Cinema, edited by Manthia Diawara
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, by Wil Haygood
Hollywood's Indian: the Portrayal of the Native American in Film, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor
Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video, by Beverly R. Singer
Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory, edited by M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead
Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film, by Ed Guerrero
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, by Donald Bogle
Hollywood Black: the Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers, by Donald Bogle
White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood From the Dark Side, by James Snead
Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance, by Charles Ramirez Berg
Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, by Nancy Wang Yuen
Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, edited by Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar
The Hollywood Jim Crow: the Racial Politics of the Movie Industry, by Maryann Erigha
America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, by Daniel Eagan
Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, by Robert Sklar
Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies, by Linda Williams
Banned in the Media: A Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet, by Herbert N. Foerstel
Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor, by Aubrey Malone
Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, by Jon Lewis
Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, by Marjorie Heins
Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us About Hate Speech, by Kevin W. Saunders
Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey Through American Media, by John E. Semonche
Dirty Words & Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment, by Jeremy Geltzer
Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon, by Alexander Doty
Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film, by Robert Lang
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, by Harry M. Benshoff
New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader, edited by Michele Aaron
New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut, by B. Ruby Rich
Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film, by Richard Dyer
Gays & Film, edited by Richard Dyer
Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, by Parker Tyler
Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture, edited by Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, edited by Ellis Hanson
Queer Images: a History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America, by Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin
The Lavender Screen: the Gay and Lesbian Films, Their Stars, Makers, Characters, & Critics, by Boze Hadleigh
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, by Vito Russo
Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: the Walt Disney Company From the Inside Out, by Sean Griffin
The Encyclopedia of Censorship, by Jonathon Green
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