Annotated Bibliography

This book gave me a lot of information of what went on behind-the-scenes of I Love Lucy and the studio that spawned from the show’s creation. It really gave me a broad picture of the people that created the show and I learned a lot about Desilu’s rise and fall as an independent production company.

Laughing with Lucy gave me a background story into one of the head writers and creators of I Love Lucy and her perspective as the “girl writer” as to how the show came to be. It was very helpful  to read the stories behind where a lot of the show’s plots came from.

Oppenheimer was the one who created the Lucy Ricardo character for the show. This was one of the many things I learned about the creation of the show. This autobiography from the producer of I Love Lucy documenting his life and what it was like producing the show gave me a lot of background history.

Reading Lucy’s autobiography really helped me delve into what her mind was going through at the start and rise of her marriage to Desi, their show, and their company. I really learned about her life in this book and this helped me talk about her upbringing in my paper.

This book covers a lot of CBS’s history as a network. It helped me see from the network’s point of view I Love Lucy’s success and what it meant for the network.

Without this book, I wouldn’t have started this research on Desilu. It gave me a lot of statistics and general information on how huge of a success the show turned out to be. Same time, same station covers the era of the television boom in America and Desilu/I Love Lucy’s place in the era.

Making television is a collection of essays covering the process of the elements that established television. I received an introspective look into the money involved with I Love Lucy and another perspective of the general creation and outcome of the show.

This article became a huge turning point in my research. McGrath’s article mostly talks about Desi’s significance in Desilu’s rise to power as a television studio and the success of I Love Lucy. It greatly influenced my focus in my paper.

The focus of this article was mainly on the history of syndication and its effects on modern television. Gordon talks about Desi’s part in establishing this money field for the television industry. This really helped with my research into the kind of experimentation Desi made outside just the technical aspects of the show.

Martin gave me peek inside the home of Lucy and Desi with his poignant interviews with both. I particularly got a huge taste of Lucy’s attitude towards the media and how she was like on a day-to-day basis just with her answers.

Johnson mostly talks about Lucy buying out Desi’s share of Desilu Productions and what she did as head of the studio. A lot of the information I got from this article pretty much was coveted in the book research I did like how Desilu during this time produced Star Trek and Mission: Impossible.

This article mostly talks about Cahn as an editor for the first I Love Lucy show and the technical details of how they got the show on the air. There was a bunch of information about the editing process that really put the show into picture for me.