Hortense Powdermaker Bibliography
Banks, Miranda, John Caldwell, and Vicki Mayer, eds. Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009.
Borneman, Ernest. “Rebellion in Hollywood. A Study in Motion Picture Finance.” Harper’s, October 1946.
Brodbeck, Emil B. Handbook of Basic Motion-Picture Techniques. New York, NY: Whittlesey House, 1950.
Burlingame, Roger. Backgrounds of Power: The Human Story of Mass Production. New York: Scribner’s, 1949.
Caldwell, John. Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television. Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
“Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, Anthropologist.” Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1970, B3.
“Dr. Florence Powdermaker, 71, Group Psychotherapist, is Dead.” New York Times, January 13, 1966, 25.
Golden, Herb. “Hollywood as ‘Dream Factory’ Just Nightmare to Femme Anthropologist.” Variety, October 18, 1950, 18.
Guzman, Don. “Ego-Irritating Study Sets Hollywood Tempers Aboil.” Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1950, D6.
“Hortense Powdermaker is Dead, An Authority on Varied Cultures.” New York Times, June 17, 1970, 47.
Huettig, Mae D. Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944.
Johnson, Barbara C. “Hortense Powdermaker, 1896–1970.” The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/powdermaker-hortense, accessed April 11, 2022.
“Long-Time Instructor at College.” Washington Post, June 18, 1970, B10.
Powdermaker, Hortense. After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1939.
______. “The Anthropological Approach to the Problem of Modifying Race Attitudes.” The Journal of Negro Education 13, no. 3 (July 1944): 295–302.
______. “An Anthropologist Looks at the Movies.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 254, no. 1 (November 1947): 80–87.
______. “The Channeling of Negro Aggression by the Cultural Process.” American Journal of Sociology 48, no. 6 (May 1943): 750–758.
______. Copper Town: Changing Africa. The Human Situation on the Rhodesian Copperbelt. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1962.
______. “Feasts in New Ireland; the Social Function of Eating.” American Anthropologist 34, no. 2 (April 1932): 236–247.
______. “Further Reflections on Lesu and Malinowski’s Diary.” Oceania 40, no. 4 (June 1970): 344–347.
______. Hollywood: The Dream Factory. An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-makers. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
______. “Leadership in Central and Southern Australia.” Economica, June 1, 1928, 168–190.
______. Life in Lesu: The Study of a Melanesian Society in New Ireland. London: Williams and Norgate, 1933.
______. “Mortuary Rites in New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago).” Oceania 2, no. 2 (September 1931): 26–43.
______. “Movies and Society.” Cinema (August 1947): 14–15.
______. “Report on Research in New Ireland.” Oceania 1 (January 1930): 355.
______. “Social Change through Imagery and Values of Teen-Age Africans in Northern Rhodesia.” American Anthropologist 58, no. 5 (October 1956): 783–813.
______. Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1966.
______. “Vital Statistics of New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago) as Revealed in Genealogies.” Human Biology 3, no. 3 (September 1931): 351–357.
Powdermaker, Hortense and Helen Frances Storen. Probing Our Prejudices: A Unit for High School Students. Bureau for Intercultural Education Publication Series. Problems of Race and Culture in American Education. New York, NY and London: Harper and Brothers, 1944.
Powdermaker, Hortense and Joseph Semper. “Education and Occupation among New Haven Negroes.” The Journal of Negro History 23, no. 2 (April 1938): 200–215.
Schulberg, Budd. “Hollywood Primitive.” New York Times, October 15, 1950, BR4.