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Further Reading: Essays on Gene Kelly

  • Biesty, Patrick. "The Myth of the Playful Dancer." Studies in Popular Culture, 1990, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p73-88, 16p
  • Buzzard, Sharon. "The Do-It-Yourself Text: The Experience of Narrativity In Singin' in the Rain." Journal of Film & Video, Summer88, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p18-26, 9p
  • Card, James. "'More than meets the eye' in Singin' in the Rain and Day for Night." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 87-95, 1984.
  • Casper, Joseph Andrew. Stanley Donen. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983.
  • Chumo, Peter N. "Dance, Flexibility, and the Renewal of Genre in Singin' in the Rain." Cinema Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 39-54, Fall 1996
  • Clover, Carol J. "Dancin' in the Rain." Critical Inquiry, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 722-47, Summer 1995.
  • Cohan, Steven. "Case Study: Interpreting Singin' in the Rain." In: Reinventing film studies / edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams. London, 2000.
  • Cohan, Steven. "Dancing with Balls in the 1940s: Sissies, Sailors and the Camp Masculinity of Gene Kelly." The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema / edited by Phil Powrie, Ann Davies, and Bruce Babington. New York: Wallflower, 2004.
  • Cohan, Steven. "What a Glorious Classic: Singin' in the Rain and Mass-Camp Recycling." In: Incongruous entertainment: camp, cultural value, and the MGM musical Durham: Duke UP, 2005.
  • Ewing, Marilyn M. "Retrospectives: "Gotta Dance!" Structure, Corruption, and Syphilis in "Singin' in the Rain"." Journal of Popular Film & Television 34:1 [Spring 2006] p. 12-23
  • Feuer, Jane. Singin' in the Rain: Winking at the Audience."
  • Genne, Beth. "'Freedom incarnate': Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly, and the dancing sailor as an icon of American values in World War II." Dance Chronicle 24.1 (Spring 2001): 83(21).
  • Gerstner, David Anthony "Dancer from the Dance: Gene Kelly, Television, and the Beauty of Movement." Velvet Light Trap, vol. 49, pp. 48-66, Spring 2002.
  • Johnston, Ruth D. "Technologically produced forms of drag in Singin' in the Rain and Radio Days." Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Apr-Jun 2004. Vol. 21, Iss. 2; p. 119
  • Kelly, Gillian. "Gene Kelly: The Performing Auteur – Manifestations of the Kelly Persona."  eSharp, Special Issue: Communicating Change: Representing Self and Community in a Technological World (2010), pp. 136-156.
  • La Pointe-Crump, Janice. "Singin' in the Rain: The Dancer, Dance, and Viewer Dialogues." Interdisciplinary Humanities, Spring2004, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p61-77, 16p
  • Miles, Adrian. "Singin' in the Rain: A Hypertextual Reading." Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 8.2 (Winter 1998).
  • Pattullo, Lauren. "Narrative and spectacle in the Hollywood musical: contrasting the choreography of Busby Berkeley and Gene Kelly." Research in Dance Education, 8.1 (Apr 2007) 73-85.
  • Prock, Stephan. "Music, Gender and the Politics of Performance in Singin' in the Rain." Colby Quarterly 36.4 (December 2000): 295-318.
  • Telotte, J. P. "Ideology and the Kelly-Donen Musicals." Film Criticism 8.3 (Spring 1984): 36-46.
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