Selected Bibliography

  Birdoff, Harry. The World's Greatest Hit. New York: Vanni, 1947.

  Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New York: Bantam, 1974.

  Brewster, Ben. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Gossett, Thomas F. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985.

  Johnson, Stephen. "Translating the Tom Show: The Legacy of a Popular Tradition in Edwin S. Porter's 1903 Film of Uncle Tom's Cabin," in Celebrating 1895. Sydney, NSW, Australia: John Libbey, 1998.

  Noble, Peter. The Negro in Films. London: Skelton Robinson, 1937.

  Railton, Stephen. "Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin," in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Pierce, David. "'Carl Laemmle's Outstanding Achievement': Harry Pollard and the Struggle to Film 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'" Film History 10 (1998).

  Slout, William L. "Uncle Tom's Cabin in American Film History." Journal of Popular Film 2 (1973).

  Wallace, Michelle. "Uncle Tom's Cabin: Before and After the Jim Crow Era." The Drama Review 44 (2000).

  Williams, Linda. "Versions of Uncle Tom: Race & Gender in American Melodrama," in New Scholarship from BFI Research. London: BFI, 1996.



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