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This is a brief list of a few classic commentaries, or anthologies containing commentaries, on lesbians in popular film, camp and cross-dressing. You can find a much more comprehensive reading list in the lesbians and popular culture bibliography.

• Bell-Metereau, Rebecca (1993) Hollywood Androgyny, New York, Columbia UP
• Lily Burana, Roxxie, and Linnea Due (Eds) (1994) Dagger: On Butch Women, San Francisco, Cleis Press
• Dickens, Homer (1982) What a Drag, Sydney, Australia, Angus & Robertson
• Dyer, Richard (1990) Now You See It, London, Routledge (Ch.4, "Lesbian/Woman: Lesbian Cultural Feminist Film")
• Faderman, Lilian (1991) Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America, London, Penguin
• Hadleigh, Boze (1993) The Lavender Screen, New York, Citadel Press
• Kuhn, Annette (1985) Ch. 3 "Sexual Disguise and Cinema" in The Power of the Image, London, Routledge
• Nataf, Z Isiling (1995) "Black Lesbian Spectatorship and Pleasure in Popular Cinema" in Paul Burston and Colin Richardson (Eds) A Queer Romance,London, Routledge
• Russo, Vito (1981) The Celluloid Closet, (revised edition, 1987) New York, Harper & Row
• Sheldon, Caroline (1984) "Lesbians and Film: Some Thoughts" in Richard Dyer (Ed) (1984) Gays and Film, New York, Zoetrope
• Sontag, Susan (1961) "Notes on 'Camp'" in Against Interpretation (1982 edition) London, Octagon
• Weiss, Andrea (1992) Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema, London, Jonathan Cape
• Whitaker, Claire (1985) "Hollywood Transformed: Interviews with Lesbian Viewers" in P. Steven (Ed) Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics and Counter-Cinema, Toronto, Between the Lines Press
• Wilton, Tamsin (1995b) (Ed) Immortal, Invisible, London, Routledge