Jazz and Film: A Bibliography

Altman, Rick. The American Film Musical. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.

Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music, trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.

Baldwin, James. The Devil Finds Work. New York: Dial, 1976

Berg, Charles Merrell. "Cinema Sings the Blues." Cinema Journal 17.2 (1978): 1-12.

------.[as Chuck Berg] "Jazz and Film and Television." The Oxford Companion to Jazz, ed. Bill Kirchner. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. 706-721.

Berger, Morroe, Edward Berger, and James Patrick. Benny Carter: A Life in American Music. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers Univ, 1982

Blumenthal, Bob. "Clint Eastwood: Bridging Jazz & Film." Jazz Times Sept. 1990: 30.

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New ed. New York: Ungar, 1992.

Bourne, Michael. "Goin' to Kansas City and Robert Altman Takes You There!" Down Beat Mar. 1996: 22-27.

Butler, David. Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Carbine, Mary. "'The Finest Outside the Loop': Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928." Camera Obscura 23 (1990): 8-41.

Carringer, Robert L., ed. The Jazz Singer. Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series. Madison: U. of Wisconsin P, 1979.

Clear, Rebecca D. Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1993.

Comuzio, Ermanno and Roberto Ellero, eds. Cinema & Jazz. Venice, Italy: Comune di Venezia, 1985.

Cooper, Reg. "The Art of Annie Ross." Jazz Journal International 32.7 (July 1979): 9-10.

Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. New York: Oxford UP, 1977.

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