Book Reaserch Bibliography

Title: The complete Hitchock

Year published: 1991

Author Surname: Condon

Author name: Paul

Place it was published: USA

How it is useful to me

Alfred hitchcock is one of the most well known directors of all times and his crediditied for releases such as psycho which is responsible for demonstrating the final girl chracter. He played a part in giving females more attention by putting them in lead roles such as in psycho and Dial M for murder, the book is a comprehensive guide to all Hitchcock's works including TV series and early silent films as well as the Hollywood classics he produced. From a modern day perspective it would be very helpful to me to examine his inflence on other film-makers over the years and all the way up to today to see the impact had had in casting females in particular roles that gave them a better light in representation but also soemtimes a negative one aswell.


Title: A personal journey through american movies

Year published: 1997

Author Surname: scorsese

Author Name: Martin

Place it was published: Italy

How it is useful to me

This book goes through the decades of american movies since its creation and how characters and roles have evolved through time, some of which were reflection of society at the time for instance the wave of femenism and the civil rights movement. The different changes over the whole period of hollywood relates to the historical part of shep and so I would get a vital.

Title: Impossible bodies femeniity and masculinaty at the movies

Year published: 2002

Author Surname: Holmlund

Author Name: Chris

Place it was published: USA

How it is useful to me

This more than most should directly help me as its portraying the aspcets of both femeninity and mascunilty in moviess. It wil demonstrate what exatcly makes feminitiy by how females act and what they do, this will help me write my indepdenant study as some of the females in my current movie are still being represented as femenine with the types of moves and actions they are given while some are being represented in the opposite way for a binary oppostion with soem aspects of masculintiy. This book will give me an indication of what is means to be these things and whether the stereotype of femeinity and mascuniutly have changed from then untill now. Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood with gender being the most important to me in completing my study. Chris Holmlund the author offers a view of contemporary cinema that I agree with which other dont It is an essential guide to the ways in which genre conventions resolve sexual differences.


Title: Media Studies, The essential guide resource

Year published: 2004

Author Surname: Rayner

Author Name: Phillip

Place it was published: Canada

How it is useful to me

This is an innovative book which brings together a comprehensive collection of primary source material about all the things to do with media studies. Each extract in the book is accompanied by commentary which places the writing in its historical and critical context. The book discusses the significance of each decade of film and books and they also identify key terms which I could use for the indepdenatn study write up and explains its importance for Media Studies. Phillip rayner introduces step-by-step to the skills of reading media texts to the audience aswell as key concepts such as genre, representation, media institutions and media audiences which in turn will build up my Migrian skills and partly help with my shep skills in additon.


Title: Odd girl out

Year Published: 2003

Author Surname:Simmons

Author Name: Rachel

Place it was published: USA

Important quote: "The princess is the last frontier of acceptable girliness. It points to how crazy our times have become that I, as a feminist, am promoting princess culture"

How it is useful

This is the only book where for the first time I could possibly find out about a hidden side in females according to the author rachel simmons, this book gives an insight into the hidden agenda of girls and women both in normal lives and where they are mostly exploited as weak and innifective and that is places like the film industry, sports , and careers in buisness, she labels what was the wave of feminism and says thier could be another one soon to come , if this is the case it would help females like the ones in my film study x-men for example gain more vital roles than the current supporting ones they play


Title: The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era

Year published 1999

Author Surname:Menefee

Author Name:David

Place it was published: USA

Important quote: "Silent cinema brought us many talented women, but setting aside the Pickfords, Swansons, and Gishes of the world, few today have retained their star power".

" Not only was the industry run by men, who often favored their male stars with larger, meatier roles, but it was also very selective in preserving its own history"

How it is useful

The book is basicly about women in the film industry when only silent films were around, it looks back into the historical and economical parts of shep by showing how they were treated back then as apposed to how they are in the modern film era.


Title: Halle Berry: A stormy life

Year published: 2004

Author Surname:Sanello

Author Name:Frank

Place it was published: USA

Important quotes: " Shes a combintation of formiddleable actress with a sense of social fairness genuine humility and she has a great sense of humour about herself"- warren betty

How it is useful to me:

As halle berry is one of the main film stars im going to be focusing on when I write the independant study it is important to have this in the bibliography because i will be able to get quotes from other stars in the industry, and take notes on her rise to stardom and compare that to how it was in the early days of hollywood. Halle Berry is now acknowledged as a supremely talented actress and the book gives an insight into her story, and the struggles she faced upon getting where she is today.

Title: The cinema book

Year published:(1981)

Author Surname: Cook

Author Name: Pam

Place it was published:Britian

Important quotes: " In hollywood film these two functions were almost always gender specfic reflecting and perpectuating the values of a world ordered by sexual imbalance" pg 163

" The narratvie role of making things happen and controling of events usually fell to a male character while the female star often virtually peripheteral to functional events remained more passively decorative" pg 336

How it is useful to me:

The cinema book has a lot of refrence to the general femenist view on the female hero so it would be useful to know what femenists think of the roles and features the main female protagnoist has in comparsion to men. It is very detailed with chapters on just about every section of film theory, like mise en scene and audience, in addition how the alternative to Hollywood which is the arthouse movie genre represents thier female characters.


Title: BFI Film and television handbook

Year published: 1999

Author Surname:Dyja

Author Name: Eddie

Place it was published:Britian

Important quotes:"Well defined male lead characters and marginalised women have meant that generations of women have had to view films from a predominatnly male perspective. While this situation hasnt exatcly changed there have been a few more films made recently with women starring in lead roles"

How it is useful to me:

This is similar to the media , gender and identity in talking about the statistics of women on tv in general but also the effect females playing major roles in films have on audiences. It actually states that during 2001 thier was a shortage of audiences with the main reason for falling being that thier was no new narrative just the same patrharical view on films with the male hero doing what he always does, while the female plays thier same average role. Its useful for my study as I could quote this numurical information to back up theories that I come up with in relation to other studies.


Title: Media , gender and identity

Year published :2002

Author Surname: Gauntlett

Author name: David

Place it was published: Britian

Important quotes: " In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s only 20 to 35 per cent of characters were female, by the mid 1980s, there were more women in leadings roles, but still there were twice as many men on screen"

"It was tied to a buttoned down, statesmanlike, qiuck thinking masculinity which contrasted with the feminine beauty and lack of assertiveness of key women chracters"

How it is useful to me:

David gauntlett speaks about female portrayl on the film stage and this is what my study is based on, he brings up a lot of valid points and intresting statistics on the popularity of females castings in both tv series and film plus he compares and contrasts the characteristics of what the average man and women have in a traditional hollywood blockbuster.