Fearless and Peerless:

Fashions in Serial Queen Melodramas

by Denise N. Green

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

Suggestions for Further Reading

  • Randy Brian Bigham, Lucile: Her Life by Design (San Francisco: MacEvie Press Group, 2014).

  • Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, “Fashion Filler in Silent Film Periodicals.” Performing Arts Resources 14 (1989).

  • Marina Dahlquist, Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and Serial Film Craze. (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013).

  • Michelle Tolini Finamore, Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

  • Denise Green, “Fashion and Fearlessness in the Wharton Studio’s Silent Film Serials, 1914-1919.” Framework 60, No. 1, Spring 2019, 83–115.

  • Denise N. Green, “The Best Known and Best Dressed Woman in America: Irene Castle and Silent Film Style.” DRESS 43, No. 2, (2017): 77–98.

  • Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2020).

  • Barbara Lupack, Silent Serial Sensations. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020).

  • Ben Singer, “Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly.” Camera Obscura 8, No. 1, January 1, 1990, 90–129.

  • Ben Singer, Melodrama and Modernity; Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).

  • Shelly Stamp, “Women and the Silent Screen.” The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, First Edition. Edited by Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon. (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing, 2012).

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