Representations of authors and writers in popular culture: Some sources


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 21 October 2006

Cecil B. Demented. Dir. John Waters. Perf. Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, and Ricki Lake. Artisan, 2000.

The Color Purple. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Whoopie Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover. Warner Brothers, 1987.

Deconstructing Harry. Dir. Woody Allen. Perf. Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, and Billy Crystal. New Line, 1997.

Finding Forrester. Dir. Gus Van Sant. Perf. Sean Connery, Rob Brown, and F. Murray Abraham. Columbia, 2000.

The Front. Dir. Martin Ritt. Perf. Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, and Herschel Bernardi. Columbia, 1976.

Full Metal Jacket. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Perf. Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, and Vincent D'Onofrio. Warner Brothers, 1987.

Gaby, a True Story. Dir. Luis Mandoki. Perf. Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Robert Loggia, Rachel Levin, Lawrence Monoson, and Robert Beltran. 1987.

In a Lonely Place. Dir. Nicholas Ray. Perf. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, and Martha Stewart. Columbia, 1950.

Little Women. Dir. Gillian Armstrong. Perf. Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Eric Stoltz. Columbia, 1994.

Love and Death on Long Island. Dir. Richard Kwietnieowski. Perf. John Hurt, Jason Priestley, and Fiona Loewi. 1998.

Manhattan. Dir. Woody Allen. Perf. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, and Meryl Streep. MGM, 1979.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Dir. Clint Eastwood. Perf. Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, and Jude Law. Warner Brothers, 1997.

A Murder of Crows. Dir. Rowdy Herrington. Perf. Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Tom Berenger. Studio Home Entertainment, 1999.

The Philadelphia Story. Dir. George Cukor. Perf. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. MGM, 1940.

Sex and the City. HBO.

Shakespeare in Love. Dir. John Madden. Perf. Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Ben Affleck. Miramax, 1998.

Speechless. Dir. Ron Underwood. Perf. Geena Davis and Michael Keaton. MGM, 2001.

State and Main. Dir. David Mamet. Perf. Rebecca Pidgeon, William Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. New Line, 2001.

Studio 60. NBC.

Thurber, James. The Years with Ross. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1959.

Tune in Tomorrow. Dir. Jon Amiel. Perf. Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, and Peter Falk. MGM, 1990.

With Honors. Dir. Alex Keshishian. Perf. Joe Pesci and Brendan Fraser. Warner, 1994.

Wolff, Tobias. "Class Picture." The New Yorker 6 January 2003: 70-79.

Wonder Boys. Dr. Curtis Hanson. Perf. Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. Paramount, 2000.