Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Cocteau's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 40; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, Vol. 2; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 8, 15, 16, 43; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 65; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists, Most-studied Authors, and Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; European Writers, Vol. 10; Guide to French Literature, 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to World Literature; and World Literature Criticism.
- Anderson, Alexandra, and Carol Saltus, eds. Jean Cocteau and the French Scene. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1984, 239 p. (Contains essays on Cocteau's works in various genres and discusses his role in intellectual circles in twentieth-century France.)
- Bach, Raymond. "Cocteau and Vichy: Family Disconnections." L'Esprit Créateur 33, no. 1 (spring 1993): 29-37. (Argues that the unfavorable critical reaction to Cocteau's play Les parents terribles, produced in 1938 after the German occupation of France and the establishment of the fascist Vichy government, indicated that this work “represented a kind of danger to Vichy and its supporters.”)
- Hains, Maryellen. "Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance?" Merveilles and Contes 3, no. 1 (May 1989): 75-83. (Discusses Cocteau's film Beauty and the Beast among various other retellings of this famous tale.)
- Hedges, Ines. "Truffault and Cocteau: Representations of Orpheus." Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits, pp. 52-65. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. (Compares Truffault's film The Green Room with Cocteau's Orphée with respect to their representation of the mythical figure of Orpheus.)
- Keller, Marjorie. The Untutored Eye: Childhood in the Films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986, 268 p. (Considers Cocteau among three filmmakers who found inspiration in the world of childhood.)
- Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz. Jean Cocteau. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970, 179 p. (Study of Cocteau's life and works.)
- Oxenhandler, Neal. Scandal and Parade: The Theater of Jean Cocteau. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957, 284 p. (Important early study of Cocteau's dramas.)
- Ritter, Naomi. "Art and Androgyny: The Aerialist." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 13, no. 2 (summer 1989): 173-93. (Perceives a similar conception of “aerial acrobatics as an androgynous fantasy” in works by Cocteau and Thomas Mann.)
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