Film Adaptations: Westerns
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick. Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film.
Provides an overview of the Native American in film, from D.W. Griffith to Sherman Alexie. Kilpatrick is herself part Native American.
University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Peter G Beidler, Harry J. Brown, Marion F. Egge (editors). The Native American in Short Fiction in the Saturday Evening Post.
A bibliography of all of the stories dealing with Native Americans during
the history of the Saturday Evening Post. The editors hope that this information
will be of use to anyone wishing to delve further into this topic. The Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Scott Simmon. The Invention of the Western Film.
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
On Comics
Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics.
The best place to start, period. A comic book about comic books that explains how they work:
how they're composed, read and understood.
Perennial Currents, 1994.
Joseph Witek. Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman and Harvey Pekar.
University Press of Mississippi, 1989.
Art Spiegelman. Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History.
Okay, it's never been adapted for film, but it is a comics (graphic novel) tour de force.
Spiegelman, a mainstay of the underground comics movement, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist
then translated his story into a graphic novel. Winner of the 1992
Pulitzer Prize. Followed by Here My Troubles Begin.
Pantheon Books, 1986.
Roger Sabin. Adult Comics.
Routledge, 1993.
On Science Fiction
Brian Aldiss/David Wingrove. The Trillian Year Spree.
Successor to Aldiss's popular The Billion Year Spree. An ambitious survey (and defense) of science fiction. Probably not
good cover-to-cover reading, but interesting reference material. You may find, as I did, a few
authors worth checking out.
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation's Website.
Contains information about Clarke and the projects the Foundation is undertaking to reach its mission of using science
to improve health, education and quality of life for people everywhere, and especially in
developing countries.
On the Authors
Budd Schulberg. The Four Seasons of Success.
Ironically (and typically), Schulberg reveals little about his own up-and-down career
in this memoir dedicated to the highs and lows of the writing life. He does, however, provide
a generous look at the careers of a handful of his writer-friends, including
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1972
Judy Alter. Dorothy Johnson.
Dorothy Johnson's fiction has been largely overlooked as a subject of critical study.
This slim volume contains the best available information on the woman and her work. Boise State University Western Writers Series, 1980.
Sharon Whitehill. The Life and Work of Mary O'Hara.
Like Dorothy Johnson, Mary O'Hara has been overlooked as a subject of critical study.
Unfortunately, this, the only biography covering O'Hara and her career, is almost
impossible to find. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
Sherman Alexie's Website.
Alexie has amassed a great deal of information about himself, his career, and his interests. Even includes a link to purchase the
much sought after "Frybread Power" t-shirts. The place to start
for all things Alexie.
The Raymond Carver Website.
Interesting, informative, and fun, this website even contains photos of
Carver's grave, the sound of Ray laughing, and four working drafts of one of his poems.
The Official Philip K Dick Website.
Although it's affiliated with the Philip K. Dick Trust, I include this website with
reservations. It's not quite ready for prime time, but where else can you view the cover art for 650
of Dick's books?
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive.
Lovecraft's fans are well-organized and thorough, as this website attests. Even includes
a family tree and a list of people Lovecraft corresponded with.
William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
Three beautiful paragraphs that everyone should read.
Welcome to Yoknapatawpha County.
A website in transition, but one that contains all the right stuff about Faulkner.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Website.
This site, developed in 1996 on the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth,
contains voiceclips, filmclips, and essays by the leading
Fitzgerald scholar, Matthew J. Bruccoli.
A Salute to Jean Shepherd and
A Jean Shepherd Website.
Two fansites that contain roughly the same information. If you love Jean
Shepherd, you will love these Sheporamas. Flicklives.com even has a breakdown of the evolution of the Shepherd story
to the film.
A Joyce Carol Oates Website.
An unofficial fansite, but a good one. Contains an array of nearly two dozen
of JCO's book jacket photos. Haunting.
A Paul Auster Website.
Another unofficial, but good, fansite. The Webmaster keeps track of Auster's
whereabouts to an almost scarey degree.
On the Films
Sam Staggs. All About All About Eve.
Gossipy and fun (if you're in that kind of mood), and probably required
reading for obsessive fans of the film. Of which there are many. St. Martins Press, 2000.
Gary Carey. More About All About Eve.
Random House, 1972.
©Stephanie Harrison
Updated 12/22/04
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