Big Sleep links:
The following is a bibliography listed on http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Noirbib.html#bigsleep
6/9/2005
Abbott, Megan E.
"'Nothing You Can't Fix': Screening Marlowe's Masculinity." Studies in the Novel. 35 (3): 305-24. 2003 Fall.
Athanasourelis, John Paul.
"Film Adaptation and the Censors: 1940s Hollywood and Raymond Chandler." Studies in the Novel. 35 (3): 325-38. 2003 Fall.
Biesen, Sheri Chinen.
"Bogart, Bacall, Howard Hawks and Wartime Film Noir at Warner Bros.: To Have and HaveNot and The Big Sleep." Popular Culture Review. 13(1):35-51. 2002 Jan
Castille, P.D.
"Compson and Sternwood: William Faulkner's 'Appendix' and The Big Sleep."Post Script, XIII/3, Summer 94; p.54-61.
Examines Faulkner's script for Hawks' adaptation of Chandler's detective novel 'The big sleep' and suggests that Faulkner's 1945 story 'The Compson appendix' may have been greatly influenced by his work as a screenwriter.
Danks, Adrian
"Bogarting the joint: ways of reading Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep." (Film As Text) Australian Screen Education Winter 2003 i33 p137(6) (4193 words)
DeFino, Dean.
"Killing Owen Taylor: Cinema, Detective Stories, and the Past." Jnt-Journal of Narrative Theory.30(3):313-31. 2000 Fall
Gallagher, Brian.
"Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep: A Paradigm for the Postwar American Family." In: The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler / edited by J.K. Van Dover. pp: 45-57. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Critical responses in arts and letters; no. 18
Hagopian, Kevin Jack.
"The Big Sleep" (10 Shades of Noir) Images, issue 2.
Haslem, Wendy
"Romance and paranoia in The Big Sleep (1946)." (NSW Film As Text)(Critical Essay)Australian Screen Education Winter 2002 i29 p164(5) (2807 words)
Kuhn, Annette.
"The Big Sleep: A Disturbance in the Sphere of Sexuality."Wide Angle, IV/3, 80; p.4-11.
Certain aspects of the mise-en-scŠne of "The big sleep" may be understood as traces of the operation of a censorship in the text directed at aspects of sexuality.
Kuhn, Annette.
The power of the image : essays on representation and sexuality / Annette Kuhn. London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Lev, Peter.
"The Big Sleep: Production History and Authorship." Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Americaines, vol. 19 no. 1. 1988 Spring. pp:1-21.
Librach, Ronald S.
"Adaptation and Ontology: The Impulse towards Closure in Howard Hawks's Version of 'The Big Sleep.'" Literature-Film Quarterly v19, n3 (July, 1991):164 (12 pages).
Maxfield, James F.
"Love in the Dark: Howard Hawks's Film Version of The Big Sleep." Clues: A Journal of Detection, vol. 14 no. 1. 1993 Spring-Summer. pp: 11-20.
Orr, Christopher.
"The Trouble with Harry: On the Hawks Version of The Big Sleep." Wide Angle, vol. 5 no. 2. 1982. pp: 66-71.
Poague, Leland
"Detecting happiness: Chandler, Hawks and The Big Sleep (again)." (Film As Text)(Critical Essay) Australian Screen Education Spring 2003 i32 p122(5) (3222 words)
Ponder, Anne.
"The Big Sleep: Romance Rather Than Detective Film." Armchair Detective: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Appreciation of Mystery, Detective, and Suspense Fiction, vol. 17 no. 2. 1984 Spring. pp: 171-174.
Rabinowitz, Peter J.
"Rats behind the Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's The Big Sleep." In: The critical response to Raymond Chandler / edited by J.K. Van Dover. pp: 117-37. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Critical responses in arts and letters; no. 18
Slattery, Andrew.
"The Big Sleep." Senses of Cinema: an Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious &Eclectic Discussion of Cinema. 12:(no pagination). 2001 Feb-Mar
Simpson, Hassell A.
""A Butcher's Thumb": Oral-digital Consciousness in 'The Big Sleep' and Other Novels of Raymond Chandler." Journal of Popular Culture v25, n1 (Summer, 1991):83 (10 pages).
Thomson, David.
"At the Acme Bookshop."Sight & Sound, L/2, Spring 81; p.122-125.
Analysis of the scene in "The Big Sleep" with Bogart and Dorothy Malone in the Acme Bookshop.
Wexman, Virginia Wright
"Kinesics and Film Acting: Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep"."Journal of Popular Film and Television, VII/1, 78; p.42-55.
An analysis of H.B.'s acting style based on his use of 'body language or kinesics'.