The Busby Berkeley book / by Thomas, Tony, 1927-1997

Showstoppers : Busby Berkeley and the tradition of spectacle / by Rubin, Martin, 1947-

Movies and mass culture /

Table of Contents: “…The crowd, the collective, and the chorus : Busby Berkeley and the New Deal /…”

Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, bodies and machines -- The tempo of life is out of control, and then righted -- The jazz train and American musical modernity -- African American modernism and the techno-dialogic : from John Henry to Duke Ellington -- Swinging the machines : big bands and streamliner trains -- The standardized white girl in the pleasure machine : the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals -- Tap dancers rap back at the machine -- America's national folk dance : the Lindy hop -- The world of tomorrow...in the groove : swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: the continuing importance of swinging the machine.…”

Hollywood musicals / by Sennett, Ted

Table of Contents: “…The first sounds of music: 1927-1932 -- Getting away from it all: 1933-1939. Busby Berkeley and the Warner Brothers ; The peerless pair: Astaire and Rogers ; On the good ship 20th Century-Fox ; MGM grandiose and glittering Goldwyn ; Their voices raised in song ; Bing and Paramount -- The glory years: 1940-1949. …”

The Theatre crafts book of costumes. by Smith, C. Ray

Table of Contents: “…American primitives for "More stately mansions."--Harvey, P. Busby Berkeley on a budget.--Somner, P. Modern dress is no accident.…”

Optic antics : the amazing cinema of Ken Jacobs /

Table of Contents: “…/ Amy Taubin -- Recycling, visual study, expanded theory : Ken Jacobs, theorist, or the long song of the sons / Nicole Brenez -- Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty seminar / Scott MacDonald -- Nervous Ken XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and after / Phil Solomon -- Jacob's Bergsonism / Michele Pierson -- Ken Jacobs and ecstatic abstraction / Lewis Klahr -- Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs : a precarious, extravagant, populist, and constructivist cinema / Adrian Martin -- Untitled (for Ken) / Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller -- Theories of moving pictures : Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann / Federico Windhausen -- I owe Ken Jacobs / Fred Worden -- Professor Ken / Michael Zryd -- "Avant-garde" filmmaker : Ken Jacobs / Art Spiegelman -- Annotated filmography and performance history / William Rose.…”