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BOOKS
Benshoff, Henry. Monsters in the closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester University Press, 1997.
Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge, 2015.
Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934. Columbia University Press, 1999.
LaSalle, Mick. Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. Griffin, 2001.
Lewis, Jon. Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry. NYU Press, 1998.
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, & REPORTS
Benshoff, Harry M. ““Way Too Gay To Be Ignored”: The Production and Reception of Queer Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century.” Speaking of Monsters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2012. 131-144.
Fleeson, Lucinda. “The Gay ’30s.” Chicago Magazine, 27 June 2007.
Jones, Stacy Holman, and Anne Harris. “Monsters, desire and the creative queer body.” Continuum 30.5 (2016): 518-530.
Jordan, Waylon. “The Long and (Often) Dysfunctional History of Lesbians in Horror Films, Part 1.” iHorror, 8 June 2018.
“LGBTQ Rights Milestones Fast Facts.” CNN, 17 June 2020.
Pasquesi, Carina. “Of Monsters, Creatures and Other Queer Becomings.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 46.2 (2013): 119-125.
Phelan, J. C., Link, B. G., Stueve, A., & Pescosolido, B. A. “Public conceptions of mental illness in 1950 and 1996: What is mental illness and is it to be feared?”. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 41(2), 188–207.
Pitts, Ciara. “Welcome to the rebirth of lesbian horror movies.” Vice, 7 September 2018.
AUDIO SOURCES
Forbidden Hollywood: Joseph Breen
Uploaded by: Warner Bros, France
Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPZaDm2j6g
The Hays Code 1930 ( Cinema )
Uploaded by: Nocensorshipaus
Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3dCIJ91Nw
1934–Breen on motion picture production code–outtakes
Uploaded by: Moving Image Research Collections
Direct Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIaS7y5K73A&t=157s
Great Depression (stock footage / archival footage)
Uploaded by: Fim Archives NYC
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1xpCiFwLE&t=104s
Baby Face – Trailer
Uploaded by: YouTube Movies
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uI4eij-K0Q&t=35s
Queen Christina – I shall die a bachelor
Uploaded by: smallnartless
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVP9WA07tJg
Caged (1950)
Uploaded by: Lidiprocult
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpTTlGsAcoE
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
Uploaded by: Código Rojo1917
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3wYppj804
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