1950's: Movies, TV, and Society:
A Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries

General and Miscellaneous
The Hollywood Blacklist

Film Noir Bibliography
Program Notes on Film and Beat Generation
Teens in the Movies and TV
Cold War/Nuclear War in motion pictures
Science Fiction& Fantasy bibliography (for books/articles about 50's sci-fi films)
Horror Film bibliography (for books/articles about 50's horror films)
Melodrama and Women's Film bibliography
The Hollywood 10 (biographies and film credits)
Edward R. Murrow bibliography

Film History of the 1950s (via FilmSite)
The Red Scare: A Filmography(All Powers Project, University of Washington)
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s (Professor Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)

I. General and Miscellaneous

Allan, Kenneth; Coltrane, Scott.
"Gender Displaying Television Commercials: A Comparative Study of Television Commercials in the 1950s and 1980s." Sex Roles: A Journal of Research v35, n3-4 (August, 1996):185 (19 pages).

Alves, Teresa.
"Some Enchanted Evening": Tuning in the Amazing Fifties, Switching Off The Elusive Decade. American Studies International 2001 39(3): 25-40.
" Challenges the tendency to characterize the 1950's as an inactive period of domesticity and anxiety and instead contends that the 1950's provided the impetus for the counterculture that defined the 1960's and ethnic revivals that characterized the 1970's. Although the arts of the era did reflect the frailties of the human condition and the hysteria of the Cold War and McCarthyism, technological developments, the emergence of rock and roll music, and new artistic focuses also signaled the beginning of a new era. Actors Marlon Brando and James Dean and Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac reflected both the emphasis on authenticity and the rebelliousness that characterized the generation." [America History and Life]

American cinema of the 1950s : themes and variations
Edited by Murray Pomerance. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005. Screen decades
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Contents Movies and landscapes / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Movies and the new faces of masculinity / Kristen Hatch -- Movies and the paradox of female stardom / Sumiko Higashi -- Movies and our secret lives / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Movies and the walls of privacy / Michael DeAngelis -- Movies and growing up ... absurd / Jon Lewis -- Movies and the crack of doom / Barry Keith Grant -- Movies and the search for proportion / Murray Pomerance -- Movies and allegories of ambivalence / Adrienne L. McLean -- Movies and the racial divide / Arthur Knight.

Anderson, Christopher
HollywoodTV: the studio system in the fifties Austin: University of Texas Press, c1994.
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Anisfield, Nancy
"Godzilla/Gojiro: Evolution of the Nuclear Metaphor." Journal of Popular Culture, Winter 1995, 29:3, pp:53+

Austen, D.
"The fifties: 'Let's go to the pictures'." Films & Filming Vol XX nr 12 (Sept 1974); p 20-25
A nostalgic look at the US and British films of the 1950's and the cinema-going habits during those days.

Banner, Deborah
"Why don't they just shoot him? The Bond villains and Cold War heroism." In: The Devil himself : villainy in detective fiction and film / edited by Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002. Contributions to the study of popular culture,0198-9871 ;no. 73
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Baron, Cynthia
"As Red as a Burlesque Queen's Garters: Cold War Politics and the Actors' Lab in Hollywood." In: Headline Hollywood : a century of film scandal / edited by Adrienne L. McLean and David A. Cook. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.
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Beck, P.
"Technology as commodity and representation: cinema stereo in the fifties." Wide Angle Vol VII nr 3 (1985); p 62-73
Analyses the pressures influencing the development of stereophonic sound as a representational technology in Hollywood in the 1950's.

Belton, John.
"Hollywood and the Cold War." In: American cinema/American culture / John Belton. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994.
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Berger, Roger A.
"'Ask What You Can Do for Your Country': The Film Version of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and the Cold War." Literature/ Film Quarterly, vol. 17 no. 3. 1989. pp: 177-187.

Biskind, Peter
"Pods, blobs, and ideology in American films of the fifties." In: Shadows of the magic lamp: fantasy and science fiction in film / Edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. pp: 58-72. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1985. Series title: Alternatives.
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Biskind, Peter
"Rebel Without a Cause: Nicholas Ray in the Fifties." Film Quarterly 28:1 (1974:Fall) 32 Film Quarterly Vol XXVIII nr 1 (Fall 1974); p 32-38
A analysis of Nicholas Ray's career in the 1950's with special emphasis on the political-sociological aspects.

Biskind, Peter
Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
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Boddy, William
Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics / William Boddy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1990. Series title: Illinois studies in communications.
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Boddy, William
"The studios move into prime time: Hollywood and the television industry in the 1950s." Cinema Journal Vol XXIV nr 4 (Summer 1985); p 23-37
Analysis of the economic relations between film and tv industries, incl. the transition from live to filmed programming.

Booker, M. Keith.
"The beginning or the end? : post-holocaust novels and films, 1946-1964." In: Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War : American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964 / M. Keith ... Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 95
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Booker, M. Keith.
"The creature from the Cold War : science fiction monster movies of the long 1950s." In: Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War : American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964 Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 95
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Booker, M. Keith.
Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War : American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964 / Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 95
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Booker, M. Keith
The post-utopian imagination: American culture in the long 1950s Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
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Booker, M. Keith.
"We're there and they're here! : space exploration and alien invasion films of the long 1950s." In: Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War : American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964 / M. Keith ... Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 95
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Boozer, Jack, Jr.
"Entrepreneurs and 'Family Values' in the Postwar Film." In: Authority and Transgression in Literature and Film / edited by Bonnie Braendlin and Hans Braendlin. pp: 89-102. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c1996.
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Bordo, Susan
"Fifties Hollywood: the rebel male crashes the wedding." The male body : a new look at men in public and in private / Susan Bordo. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
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Braudy, Leo
"No body's perfect" : method acting and 50s culture." In: The movies : texts, receptions, exposures / edited by Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
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Briley, Ron
"Hollywood and the rebel image in the 1950s." Social Education Oct 1997 v61 n6 p352(7)
'Images of rebellious youths have been portrayed in the 1950s films 'The Wild One' and 'Rebel Without a Cause.' An analysis of the films has revealed that the movie industry was not prepared to discard the societal norms of the decade. The motion pictures have only represented the industry's ability to capitalize on social issues and the public's curiosity on the youth's responses to these issues, as portrayed by actors Marlon Brando and James Dean, in promoting social values during that period." [Expanded Academic Index]

Briley, Ron
"John Wayne and big Jim McLain (1952): the Duke's Cold War legacy." Film & History Vol XXXI nr 1 (2001); p 28-33
Examines John Wayne's contribution to the anti-communist crusade of the 1950's, focusing on the film "Big Jim McLain".

Broderick, Mick.
"Nuclear frisson: Cold War cinema and human radiation experiments." Literature-Film Quarterly July 1999 v27 i3 p196(6)
"Motion pictures' portrayals of human radiation experiments during the Cold War are discussed. Issues addressed include the moral aspects of human experimentation, the film industry's production of Cold War films in conjunction with the US government, and actual cases of atomic testing on humans." [Expanded Academic Index]

Broderick, Mick.
Nuclear Movies: A Critical Analysis and Filmography of International Feature Length Films Dealing with Experimentation, Aliens, Terrorism, Holocaust, and Other Disaster Scenarios, 1914-1990 / by Mick Broderick; with a foreword by Helen Caldicott. Jefferson, N.C. McFarland & Co., 1991, c1988.
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Buckley, R. C.V.
"National body: Gina Lollobrigida and the cult of the star in the 1950s." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Vol XX nr 4 (Oct 2000); p 527-547
Examines the place of Gina Lollobrigida in Italian culture; what she represented for Italians and for women in particular.

Byars, Jackie.
All That Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama / Jackie Byars. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1991.Series title: Gender & American culture.
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Byars, Jackie
"Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Female-Oriented Melodramas of the 1950s." In: Multiple voices in feminist film criticism / Diane Carson, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, editors. pp: 93-108 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1994.
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Byars, Jackie
"The Prime of Miss Kim Novak: Struggling over the Feminine in the Star Image." In: The other fifties : interrogating midcentury American icons / edited by Joel Foreman. pp: 197-223. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
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Byman, Jeremy
Showdown at high noon : witch-hunts, critics, and the end of the Western / Jeremy Byman. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004. Filmmakers series ; 111
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000190.html
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Carruthers, Susan L.
"Redeeming The Captives: Hollywood and The Brainwashing Of America's Prisoners Of War In Korea." Film History 1998 10(3): 275-294.
"Several American films made during the Cold War years of the 1950's and early 1960's, such as Prisoner of War (1954) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), portrayed American prisoners of war who were brainwashed by their Communist captors during the Korean War." [America: History and Life]

Cassidy, Marsha F.
"Sob stories, merriment, and surprises: the 1950s audience participation show on network television and women's daytime reception." Velvet Light Trap nr 42 (Fall 1998); p 48-61
A study of the daytime audience participation shows (such as "Truth or consequences" and "Queen for a day") that argues for their creation of a metaphysic of feminine presence through their linkage of studio space with home space. [FIAF]

Chapman, James
'Our finest hour revisited." Journal of Popular British Cinema nr 1 (1998); p 63-75
British war films of the 1950's and early 1960's have been largely ignored by scholars. This article seeks to provide an exploratory discussion of the cultural and ideological significance of World War II narrative in British. [FIAF]

Christensen, Terry.
"The 1950s: Anti-Communism and Conformity" In: Projecting politics : political messages in American film Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.
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Clark, Ginger.
"Cinema of Compromise: Pinky and thePolitics of Post War Film Production."(Elia Kazan's anti-racist film, "Pinky")Western Journal of Black Studies v21, n3 (Fall, 1997):180 (10 pages).

Cohan, Steven.
Masked men : masculinity and the movies in the fifties / Steven Cohan. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997. Arts and politics of the everyday.
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Cook, Pam.
"Fashion and Sexual Display in 1950s Hollywood." In: Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema / London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Corkin, Stanley
"Cowboys and Free Markets: Post-World War II Westerns and U.S. Hegemony." Cinema Journal - 39, Number 3, Spring 2000 -
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"This essay looks at the historical phenomenon of the western as a focal genre in postwar America. Through discussion of Howard Hawks's Red River and John Ford's My Darling Clementine, it shows how the western was well suited to convey important ideological rationales for postwar U.S. foreign policy, including the inevitability of American expansion and the strategies for hegemony that guided the Truman administration's foreign policy."

Corber, Robert J.
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity / Robert J. Corber. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1997.
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Cohan, Steven.
"Almost like being at home : showbiz culture and Hollywood road trips in the 1940s and 1950s." In: The road movie book / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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Cohan, Steven.
"Cary Grant in the Fifties: Indiscretions of the Bachelor's Masquerade." Screen. 33(4):394-412. 1992 Winter
Analysis of the appeal of Cary Grant in the 1950's, despite the assertion that his image was a masquerade hiding his 'sexual problems'.

Cohan, Steven.
"Masquerading as the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic, William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film." In: Male trouble / Constance Penley and Sharon Willis, editors. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
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Cohan, Steven.
Masked men: masculinity and the movies in the fifties Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1997.
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Cohen, M.M.
"Forgotten audiences in the passion pits: drive-in theatres and changing spectator practices in post-war America." Film History Vol VI nr 4 (Winter 1994); p 470-486
Examines reasons for the popularity of drive-in cinemas in the USA in the 1940's and 1950's.

Corber, Robert J.
"'You Wanna Check My Thumbprints?': Vertigo, the Trope of Invisibility and Cold War Nationalism." In: Alfred Hitchcock : centenary essays / edited by Richard Allen and S. Ishii-Gonzales. London : British Film Institute, 1999.
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Cox, Carole
"Popular Culture: The Fifties, Hollywood and Horror Films, Art and the Old West." English Journal 76:1 (1987:Jan.) 87

Creadick, Anna
"Incredible/Shrinking Men: Masculinity and Atomic Anxiety in American Postwar Science-Fiction Film." In: Fear itself : enemies real & imagined in American culture / edited by Nancy Lusignan Schultz. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c1999.
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McCrillis, Neal R.
"Atomic anxiety in Cold War Britain: science, sin and uncertainity in nuclear monster films." In: Screening scripture : intertextual connections between scripture and film / edited by George Aichele and Richard Walsh. Harrisburg, Pa. : Trinity Press International, c2002.
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Cripps, Thomas.
Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking & Society Before Television / Thomas Cripps. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Series title: The American moment.
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Curtin, Michael.
Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics / Michael Curtin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1995. Communications, media, and culture
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Davis, Ronald L.
Celluloid Mirrors: Hollywood and American Society Since 1945 / Ronald L. Davis. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1997. Series title: Harbrace books on America since 1945.
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Dittmar, Linda
"From Fascism to the Cold War: Gilda's 'Fantastic' Politics." Wide Angle-A Quarterly Journal of Film History Theory & Criticism, 10 (3): 4-18 1988.

Dixon, Wheeler W.
Cold War, cool medium : television, McCarthyism, and American culture New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
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Dixon, Wheeler W.
Lost in the fifties : recovering phantom Hollywood Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
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Doherty, Thomas Patrick.
Teenagers and teenpics: the juvenilization of American movies in the 1950s Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
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Draper, Ellen.
"'Controversy Has Probably Destroyed Forever the Context': The Miracle and Movie Censorship in America in the Fifties." Velvet Light Trap. 25:69-79. 1990 Spring
"Discusses the New York City censorship debate over the exhibition of Italian director Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle during the early 1950's. The film was originally deemed blasphemous by New York City Commissioner of Licenses Edward McCaffery in 1950 and the issue eventually went before the Supreme Court, which overturned McCaffery's decision and extended 1st Amendment protection to films.: [America: History and Life]

Dunne, Michael.
"Cold War Ideology in John Ford's Fort Apache." Popular Culture Review, vol. 8 no. 1. 1997 Feb. pp: 83-95.

Edwards, Brian T..
"Yankee pashas and buried women: containing abundance in 1950's Hollywood Orientalism." Film & History; Vol.XXXI nr.2 (2001); p.13-24
Discusses how Hollywood's representation of oriental excess was actually an expression of the political and social concerns of the Cold War period. [FIAF]

Elley, Derek
"Ticklish problems. The continental sex kittens." Films & Filming Vol XXV nr 1 (Oct 1978); p 18-22
A definition and discussion of the rise of the continental 'sex kitten' during the 1950's and why the English-speaking cinema was attracted by the foreign vamp. Detailed accounts of several 'sex kittens'. [FIAF]

Evans, Joyce A.
Celluloid mushroom clouds: Hollywood and the atomic bomb / Joyce A. Evans. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries
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Fairlamb, Brian
"One in a thousand: western stars, heroes and their guns." CineAction nr 46 (June 1998); p 18-25
Explores the role of guns in relation to the crisis of masculinity in westerns of the 1950's.

Film posters of the 50s : the essential movies of the decade : from the reel poster gallery collection
Edited by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh. Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2001.
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Fink, Janet. Holden, Katherine
"Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the Mid-Victorian Novel, Inter-War Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s." Gender & History, 11 (2): 233-55 1999.

Fore, Steve.
"Howard Hughes' 'Authoritarian Fictions': RKO, One Minute to Zero, and the Cold War." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 31. 1993 Spring. pp: 15-26.

Foertsch, Jacqueline
Enemies within : the Cold War and the AIDS crisis in literature, film, and culture / Jacqueline Foertsch. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2001.
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Fox, J.
"Madness, madness." Films & Filming Vol XXI nr 1 (Oct 1974); p 24-31
Account of the cinemagoing habits and films shown during the 1950's in England.

French, Brandon
On the verge of revolt: women in American films of the fifties New York: Ungar, c1978
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Fruth, Bryan, et al.
"The Atomic Age: facts and films from 1945-1965." Journal of Popular Film and Television (23:4) 1996, 154-60.

Fuchs, Cynthia J
"plit Screens: Framing and Passing in Pillow Talk." In: The other fifties : interrogating midcentury American icons / edited by Joel Foreman. pp: 224-51. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
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Fulford, Robert
"American Demons of the 1950s." Queen's Quarterly 102, no. 3 (1995 Fall): p. 525-45

Fuller, Linda K.
"The Ideology of the 'Red Scare' Movement: McCarthyism in the Movies." In: Beyond the Stars / edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller. pp: 229-248. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, c1990
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Gallagher, Brian.
"Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep: A Paradigm for the Postwar American Family." North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 51 no. 3. 1983 Summer. pp: 78-91.

Garmon, Ronald Dale.
"Drive-In Revolution: American International Pictures, The Protest Film, And The Fall And Rise Of Roger Corman." Journal of Unconventional History 1993 4(3): 41-59.
"During the 1950's and 1960's, Roger Corman (b. 1926) produced and directed for Hollywood's American International Pictures a succession of surrealist, absurdist, and socially critical films. Ostensibly aimed at the studio's teenage market, they subsequently became film cult favorites." [America: History and Life]

Geraghty, Christine.
British cinema in the fifties: gender, genre and the 'new look' / Christine Geraghty. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
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Gianos, Phillip L.
"The Cold War and Vietnam in Film." In: Politics and politicians in American film. Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 1998.
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Giglio, Ernest D.
"HUAC and the Blacklist: The Red Scare Comes to Hollywood." In: Here's looking at you : Hollywood, film, and politics / Ernest Giglio. New York : Peter Lang, c2000. Politics, media & popular culture ; vol. 3
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Gilbert, James B.
"Wars of the Worlds." Journal of Popular Culture 1976 10(2): 326-336.
"Science fiction movies of the 1950's, as close examination of the cinema adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds illustrates, were metaphoric vehicles for social commentary. They reflected the social values believed to be in hazard during the Cold War and underscore the role popular culture plays in the assimilation of values and change." [America History and Life]

Gonder, Patrick.
"Like a Monstrous Jigsaw Puzzle: Genetics and Race in Horror Films of the 1950s."Velvet Light Trap. 52:33-44. 2003 Fall
"The conception of the body as a collection of rebellious parts is a popular one in a certain set of horror films of the 1950s [H]and early 1960s. These films reflect the popular understanding of genetics, DNA, [H]and heredity, a discourse that greatly influenced the conception of the body. Changes in genetic science, fostered by the political [H]and social climate of the 1950s, enact a shift in the discourse of embodiment [H]and imbue the body with a somatic unconscious. Repressed within this unconscious is everything that is deemed "unhealthy" [H]and "abnormal," categories that are linked to race [H]and racial differnce due to the interplay between genetic science [H]and eugenic philosophy. These films then enact a nightmare of eugenic fears, fears that demand extensive measures of control, although these measures ultimately prove futile. These body-rebellion films return the body to a "purified" state through the xenophobic excision of the offensive, dangerous element thorugh a kind of violent therapy." [International Index to the Performing Arts]

Gonder, Patrick
" Race, Gender and Terror: The Primitive in 1950s Horror Films." Genders, Issue 40 2004

Gordon, Marsha
"'What Makes a Girl Who Looks Like That Get Mixed Up in Science?': Gender in Sam Fuller's Films of the 1950s." Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 17 (1): 1-17 2000 Mar.

Gow, Gordon
Hollywood in the Fifties New York, A. S. Barnes [1971 (Series: The International film guide series)
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Guerrero, Ed; Carter, S.; Shapiro, B.
"AIDS as monster in science fiction and horror cinema./ Avatars of the turtles./ Universal truths. Cultural myths and generic adaptations in 1950s science fiction films." Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol XVIII nr 3 (Fall 1990); p 86-111
Two articles on changes in US science-fiction films of the 1980's: allegorical representations of AIDS; conservatism expressed in the longing for an all-powerful machine; plus an examination of the uncritical portrayal of US society in such films from the 1950's. [FIAF]

Haralovich, Mary Beth
"Sitcoms and suburbs: positioning the 1950s homemaker." Quarterly Review of Film and Video Vol XI nr 1 (May 1989); p 61-83
Addresses the portrayal of US suburban families in 1950's situation comedies "Father knows best" and "Leave it to Beaver", esp. the view given of the housewife.

Hardin, Michael.
"Mapping Post-War Anxieties onto Space: Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Invaders from Mars." Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. 1 (1): (no pagination). 1997 Spring

Harper, Sue
"Bonnie Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s." In: The British cinema book / edited by Robert Murphy. 2nd ed. London : British Film Institute, 2001.
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Harper, Sue
British cinema of the 1950s : a celebration Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
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Harper, Sue
British cinema of the 1950s : the decline of deference Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent
"Moved to tears: weeping in the cinema in postwar Britain."Screen Vol XXXVII nr 2 (Summer 1996); p 152-173
A 1950's British Mass Observation survey on crying in the cinema is examined and conclusions drawn about the social and psychological function of film in the postwar period. [FIAF]

Harvey, James
Movie love in the fifties / James Harvey. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2001.
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Hay, James.
"Rethinking the Intersection of Cinema, Genre, and Youth." Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies

Heine, Steven
"Sayonara can mean 'Hello': ambiguity and the Orientalist butterfly syndrome in postwar American films." Post Script Vol XVI nr 3 (Summer 1997); p 17-34
Examines the portrayal in the late 1950's American cinema of Asian women in terms of a 'butterfly syndrome', a type of cultural stereotyping.

Heffernan, Kevin.
Ghouls, gimmicks, and gold : horror films and the American movie business, 1953-1968 Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
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Hendershot, Cynthia.
Anti-communism and popular culture in mid-century America Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2003.
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Hendershot, Cyndy.
"The Atomic Scientist, Science Fiction Films, and Paranoia: The Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, and Killers from Space." Journal of American Culture, vol. 20 no. 1. 1997 Spring. pp: 31-41.

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"The Bomb and Sexuality: Creature from the Black Lagoon and Revenge of the Creature." Literature and Psychology 45, no. 4 (1999): p. 74-89

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"The Bear and the Dragon: Representations of Communism in Early Sixties American Culture."Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, 23 (4): 67-74 2000 Winter.

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"The Cold War Horror Film: Taboo and Transgression in The Bad Seed, The Fly, and Psycho." Journal of Popular Film & Television. 29(1):20-31. 2001 Spring
"The Bad Seed (1956), The Fly (1958), and Psycho (1960) lend themselves to analysis using the theories of George Bataille on taboo and transgression as applied to the context of the Cold War." [America History and Life]

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"Darwin and the Atom: Evolution/Devolution Fantasies in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Them! and The Incredible Shrinking Man." Science Fiction Studies 25, no. 2 (75) (1998 July): p. 319-35

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"Feminine Paranoia and Secrecy: I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman." Readerly/Writerly Texts, vol. 4 no. 2. 1997 Spring-Summer. pp: 71-86.

Hendershot, Cynthia.
I was a Cold War monster : horror films, eroticism, and the Cold War imagination / Cyndy Hendershot. Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c2001.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H46 2001

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"Internal and external communism in popular film." In: Anti-communism and popular culture in mid-century America / Cyndy Hendershot. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2003.
Main E743.5 .H425 2003

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"Images - Monster at the Soda Shop: Teenagers and Fifties Horror Films." Images

Hendershot, Cyndy.
Paranoia, the bomb, and 1950s science fiction films / Cyndy Hendershot. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1999.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S26.H37 1999

Hendershot, Cyndy.
"Rebellion and Conformity in Fifties Juvenile Delinquency Films." Popular Culture Review. 14(1):5-17. 2003 Feb

Henriksen, Margot A.
Dr. Strangelove's America: society and culture in the atomic age / Margot A. Henriksen. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.
Moffitt E169.12.H49 1997
Ethnic Studies E169.12.H49 1997
Main Stack 308t 1989 787 Library has: 1-2 (1989)[earlier edition]
Text available online: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7r29p1qz (UCB users only)

Higson, Andrew
"Space, place, spectacle." Screen Vol XXV nr 4-5 (July-Oct 1984); p 2-21
Exploration of landscape and townscape in the British realist films of the late 1950's and early 1960's, taking as the main examples "Saturday night and Sunday morning" and "A taste of honey". [FIAF]

Hilliker, Lee
"Hulot vs. the 1950s: Tati, Technology and Mediation."Journal of Popular Culture, 32 (2): 59-78 1998 Fall.

Hoffman, Carl
"The Evolution of a Gladiator: History, Representation, and Revision in Spartacus."Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, 23 (1): 63-70 2000 Spring.

Holmes, Su .
"Looking at the wider picture on the small screen: reconsidering British television and widescreen cinema in the 1950s." (Critical Essay)Quarterly Review of Film and Video April-June 2004 v21 i2 p131-147
"The author argues against the conventional assumption that the technological rejuvenation of British cinema during the 1950s was driven by the motion picture industry's desire to distance itself from television. She instead posits that television promoted cinema's technological advancements through the emerging genre of feature-length television cinema programs." [Expanded Academic Index]

Holmes, Su.
British TV & film culture in the 1950s: 'coming to a TV near you' Bristol, UK ; Portland, Ore. : Intellect Books, 2005.
PFA : PN1992.3.G7 H65 2005

Holt, Jennifer.
"Hollywood And Politics Caught in the Cold War Crossfire(1947)." Film & History 2001 31(1): 6-12.
A prominent example of the Hollywood "social problem" film, Crossfire (1947) not only reflected the bigotry of postwar US society but also participated in the process of reconstructing identities at the beginning of the Cold War era.

Hutchings, Peter.
"'We're the Martians Now': British SF Invasion Fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s." In: British science fiction cinema / edited by I.Q. Hunter. pp: 33-47. London; New York: Routledge, 1999. Series title: British popular cinema.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 B65 1999

Jackson, Tony.
"The Manchurian Candidate and the Gender of the Cold War." Literature-Film Quarterly. 28(1):34-40.

Joslin, Lyndon W.
"The Cold War in orbit: two films of aliens, arsenals, and interventions." In: Science fiction America : essays on SF cinema
Edited by David J. Hogan. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2006.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S26.S275 2006
Moffitt PN1995.9.S26.S275 2006
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004743.html

Kaplan, P.W.
"A happier life through television." Film Comment Vol XV nr 4 (July-Aug 1979); p 49-52
A survey of the US tv situation comedies of the 1950's.

Kashner, Sam.
The bad & the beautiful: Hollywood in the fifties / Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, c2002.
Main Stack PN1993.5.U65.K34 2002
Moffitt: PN1993.5.U65 K34 2002
BANC: PN1993.5.U65 K34 2002; Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library.

Katovich, Michael A; Kinkade, Patrick T
"The Stories Told in Science Fiction and Social Science: Reading The Thing and Other Remakes From Two Eras." Sociological Quarterly, 34:4 Nov 1993, pp: 619+
"Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1993 University of California Press. We re-examine science fiction films of the 1950s (made during the cold war), and their remakes in the 1970s and 1980s (made in the post-sixties, after Vietnam and Watergate) in conjunction with stories told by social scientists during the same eras. In this light, we provide a subversive reading of social scientific data sets and science fiction films, and pay special attention to both versions of The Thing (1951, 1982) as relevant examples of cold war and post-sixties statements. Social scientific and film productions of the 1950s correlate with optimistic public sentiments of the cold war era in regard to the abilities of the military, government, and medicine to solve social problems. The more recent reproductions conjure images of a much more pessimistic view of institutions. We suggest by way of a conclusion that readings of social scientific products, science fiction films, and their remakes can inform social theories in general and postmodern social theories in particular." [Expanded Academic Index]

Kelley, Beverly Merrill.
Reelpolitik II : political ideologies in '50s and '60s films Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.
MAIN: PN1995.9.P6 K43 2004

Kirshner, Jonathan.
"Subverting The Cold War In The 1960s: Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, And The Planet Of The Apes."Film & History 2001 31(2): 40-44.
"The films The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), and Planet of the Apes (1968) subverted the Cold War by challenging the tenets on which US policy was based and by ridiculing and trivializing the conflict as one whose opponents were divided by meaningless differences." [America History and Life]

Kneeshaw, Stephen.
"Hollywood And 'The Bomb'". OAH Newsletter 1986 14(2): 9-11.
"The treatment of the atomic bomb in major Hollywood movies shifted from "bombs-create-monsters" science fiction in the 1950's to thoughtful examinations of the impact of the general nuclear energy threat in the 1960's and 1980's, while only a few second-quality movies and Planet of the Apes-style postholocaust films dealt with the bomb after the mid 1960's." [America History and Life]

Klinger, Barbara
"'Local' Genres: The Hollywood Adult Film of the 1950s In: Melodrama: stage, picture, screen / edited by Jacky Bratton, Jim Cook, Christine Gledhill. pp: 134-46 London: British Film Institute, 1994.
Main Stack PN1912.M45 1994

Kozak, Warren
"Killer Monster Bugs from Hell! How Americans Forgot About the War and Learned to Loathe Nature. (1950s and 1960s horror science fiction films on insects) I.D. Sept-Oct, 1997 Vol/Num: v. 44, n. 5, p. 76 (4 pages)

Krutnik, Frank
"The faint aroma of performing seals: the 'nervous' romance and the comedy of the sexes." Velvet Light Trap nr 26 (Fall 1990); p 57-72
US remakes of screwball comedies in the 1950's and 1960's replaced the romantic element with a sexual antagonism between the male and female characters. [FIAF]

Kuna, Franz M.
"Texts as Contexts: Problems of Reception and Transformation in Film Versions of Literary Works, the Example of the Fifties." In: Text - culture - reception : Cross-cultural aspects of english studies pp: 447-72. Heidelberg : Carl Winter, 1992 Forum Anglistik ; n.F., Bd. 8.
Main Stack XM92.04892 NRLF #: B 3 883 671

Landon, Philip J.
"New Heroes: Post-War Hollywood's Image of World War II." Visions of war : World War II in popular literature and culture / edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield. pp: 18-26 Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992.
Main Stack PN56.W665.V64 1992

Landrum, Larry N.
"A Checklist of Materials About Science Fiction Films of the 1950's"Journal of Popular Film 1:1 (1972:Winter) 61

Landy, Marcia.
"'You Remember Diana Dors, Don't You?': History, Femininity, and the Law in 1950s and 1980s British Cinema." In: The historical film: history and memory in media / edited and with an introduction by Marcia Landy. pp: 143-72. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2001. Series title: Rutgers depth of field series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H5 H59 2001

Larson, Mary Strom.
"Sibling Interactions in 1950s versus 1980s Sitcoms: A Comparison." (family relationships in television comedies)(Processes of Communication) Journalism Quarterly v68, n3 (Autumn, 1991):381 (7 pages).

Latham, Rob
"Subterranean suburbia: underneath the smalltown myth in the two versions of Invaders from Mars."Science-Fiction Studies, July 1995 v22 n66 p198(11)
Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT SF-TH Inc. 1995 "The two film versions of Invaders from Mars provide crucial insight into the historical trajectory of suburbanization in the United States. Beneath its surface confidence in the postwar suburban project as a geographical resolution of abiding class conflict, the first film, released in 1953 during escalating Cold War preparedness, evinces deep-seated anxieties about the ethical implications of suburbia's essential dependence upon militarist power. The remake, released in 1986 at the height of Ronald Reagan's reinvigoration of the military-industrial foundations of suburban life, offers a pointed satire of contemporary suburbia's jingoistic antagonism toward alien 'others' - a mistrust which bespeaks a growing racial division within U.S. society that is the historical fallout of the suburbanization process. Both films display the power of the cinematic genre of science fiction to condense complex historical developments into visually arresting - even prophetic." [Expanded Academic Index]

Leab,Daniel J.
"Hollywood and the Cold War, 1945-1961." In: Hollywood as mirror : changing views of "outsiders" and "enemies" in American movies / edited by Robert Brent Toplin. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Main PN1995.9.M56 H65 1993
Moffitt PN1995.9.M56 H65 1993

Leab, Dan.
"How Red was my Valley: Hollywood, the Cold War Film, and "I Married a Communist"."Journal of Contemporary History 19:1 (1984:Jan.) 59
UC users only

Leab, Dan.
"I Was A Communist For The FBI." History Today [Great Britain] 1996 46(12): 42-47.
"I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951), a crudely propagandistic film, chronicles the work of Matt Cvetic, a Federal Bureau of Investigation informer who infiltrated a Communist organization in Pennsylvania and later testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and documents paranoia about communism in the 1940's and 1950's." [America: History and Life]

Lee, Karen A.
"John Ford's The Searchers (1956) in Chuang Hua's Crossings: A Chinese American Woman's Categorical Liminality in a Cold War Society." Hitting Critical Mass: a Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, 4 (2): 79-86 1997 Summer.

LeGacy, Arthur
""The Invasion of the Body Snatchers": A Metaphor for the Fifties."Literature/Film Quarterly 6:3 (1978:Summer) 285
: Presents the historical context in which audiences received the film, arguing against Jack Finney's claim that the novel was written strictly to entertain. [FIAF]

Leibman, Nina C.
Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television / Nina C. Leibman. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Texas film studies series.
Main Stack PN1992.8.F33.L45 1995
Contents via Google Books

Leibman, Nina C.
"Leave Mother Out: The Fifties Family in American Film and Television." Wide Angle, vol. 10 no. 4. 1988. pp: 24-41.
The portrayal of the family in US films and tv programmes of the 1950's, such as "Rebel without a cause" and "Giant", stresses the negative influence of the mother. [FIAF]

Leitch, Thomas M.
"It's the Cold War, Stupid: An Obvious History of the Political Hitchcock."Literature-Film Quarterly, 27 (1): 3-15 1999.

Lenihan, John H.
"English Classics for Cold War America: MGM's Kim (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Julius Caesar (1953)" Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 20 no. 3. 1992 Fall. pp: 42-51.

Lenihan, John H.
"English Classics for Cold War America: MGM's Kim (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Julius Caesar (1953)."Journal of Popular Film & Television, 20 (3): 42-51 1992 Fall.

Lenihan, John H.
"Hollywood laughs at the Cold War, 1947-1961." In: Hollywood as mirror : changing views of "outsiders" and "enemies" in American movies / edited by Robert Brent Toplin. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Main PN1995.9.M56 H65 1993
Moffitt PN1995.9.M56 H65 1993

Lerer, Seth.
"Forbidden Planet And The Terrors Of Philology." Raritan 2000 19(3): 73-86.
"In the movie Forbidden Planet (1956), the central character of Dr. Morbius, an authority in philology, embodies a distinctively American reaction to the incursions of ?migr? literary study into the academic world and popular culture of the 1950's, which presaged a reshaping of literary and linguistic study. The article focuses on Leo Spitzer and Erich Auerbach as examples of the European emigr? scholars Dr. Morbius represents." [America: History and Life]

Lev, Peter
Transforming the screen, 1950-1959 / Peter Lev. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. History of the American cinema ; v. 7
Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.H55 1990 v.7
The American film industry in the early 1950s -- Genres and production trends, 1950-1954 -- HUAC, the Blacklist, and the decline of social cinema / Brian Neve -- Censorship and self regulation -- Technology and spectacle -- Hollywood and television in the 1950s: the roots of diversification / Janet Wasko -- Hollywood international -- Science fiction films and Cold War anxiety / Victoria O'Donnell -- The film industry in the late 1950s -- Genres and production trends, 1955-1959 -- American documentary in the 1950s / Jack C. Ellis -- "Unquiet years": experimental cinema in the 1950s / Greg S. Fuller.

Lipschutz, Ronnie D.
Cold War fantasies: film, fiction, and foreign policy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2001.
MAIN: PN1995.9.W3 L57 2001

Lucanio, Patrick.
Them or Us: Archetypal Interpretations of Fifties Alien Invasion Films Patrick Lucanio. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1987.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 L8 1987
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.S26 L8 1987

MacDonald, J. Fred
"The Cold War as Entertainment in 'Fifties Television." Journal of Popular Film and Television 7:1 (1978) 3

MacDougall, Robert
"Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s." Journal of Popular Culture 32, no. 4 (1999 Spring): p. 59-75

MacDonald, J.F.
"The Cold War as entertainment in fifties television." Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol VII nr 1 (1978); p 3-31
Sees moral and political anti-communism and militarism as predominant themes of popular US tv programming; surveys various genres such as espionage, documentary, religious and dramatic tv shows. [FIAF]

MacDougall, Robert
"Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s." Journal of Popular Culture, 32 (4): 59-75 1999 Spring.

Macnab, Geoffrey
"Caught in the act."Sight & Sound Vol IV nr 4 (Apr 1994); p 61
On the acting styles used in British films of the 1950's.

Maland, Charles J.
"Film Gris: Crime, Critique and Cold War Culture in 1951." Film Criticism v. 26 no. 3 (Spring 2002) p. 1-30
UC users only
"The writer examines film gris (gray films), a category of film classified in 1985 by scholar Thom Anderson. Anderson suggested that the most significant achievements of the filmmakers blacklisted in the late 1940s and early 1950s were released between the Hollywood Ten hearings of October 1947 and the resumption of investigations by the House on Un-American Activities in Hollywood in 1951. He identified directors who created a small group of films characterized by a combination of crime and social critique, which he labeled film gris. The writer considers the notion of film gris in relation to two films on the list, Joseph Losey's The Prowler and John Berry's He Ran All the Way (both 1951), focusing on contextual concerns, especially on the backgrounds and political engagements of key creative personnel and of the shifts in the film industry that made it possible, albeit hard, for them to make the films they wanted. He examines the films and the vision of American society they portray, what happened to them and their filmmakers after the films were released, and what the films suggest about the relationship between film gris and film noir." [Art Index]

Mannix, Patrick
The Rhetoric of Antinuclear Fiction: Persuasive Strategies in Novels and Films / Patrick Mannix. Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, c1992.
UCB Main PS374.N82 M36 1992
UCB Moffitt PS374.N82 M36 1992

Marling, Karal Ann.
As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s / Karal Ann Marling. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
Main Stack E169.02.M3534 1994
Moffitt E169.02.M3534 1994

Martinez, Maria Jesus.
"Some Like It Hot: The Blurring of Gender Limits in a Film of the Fifties." BELLS: Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies. 9: 143-52. 1998

Marx, Samuel
"The Bomb Movie." In: The Movies: texts, receptions, exposures / edited by Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996.
Main Stack PN1994.M78 1996
Moffitt PN1994.M78 1996

Matthews, Melvin E.
Hostile aliens, Hollywood and today's news : 1950s science fiction films and 9/11 New York : Algora Pub., c2007.
Location(s): MAIN: PN1995.9.S26 M356 2007; View current status of this item
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006102140.html

May, Lary.
"The Birth of the White Consumer Democracy: Hollywood and the World War II Conversion Narrative." In:The big tomorrow : Hollywood and the politics of the American way / Lary May. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Main PN1995.9.S6 M343 2000

May, Lary.
"Movie Star Politics: Hollywood and the Making of Cold War Americanism." In:
The big tomorrow : Hollywood and the politics of the American way / Lary May. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Main PN1995.9.S6 M343 2000

McGregor, Gaile.
"Domestic Bliss: A Revisionist History of the Fifties." American Studies, vol. 34 no. 1. 1993 Spring. pp: 5-33.

McKnight, David.
"Australian film and the cultural cold war." Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, May 2004 i111 p118(13)
Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 2004 Australian Film, Television and Radio School "This article examines whether, and in what way, anti-communism was a factor in the slow development of an Australian film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s and in the kind of film culture developed in Australia, particularly through film festivals. In particular it examines the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) towards left and liberal filmmakers and film lovers. It briefly examines the effect of anti-communism on the struggle for Australian content by Actors' Equity in the early years of television."

McNiven, R.D.
"Middle-class American home of the Fifties: the use of architecture in Nicholas Ray's Bigger than life and Douglas Sirk's All that heaven allows." Cinema Journal v. 22 no. 4 (Summer 1983) p. 38-57
Discusses how architecture is used in two 1950's melodramas, "Bigger than life" and "All that heaven allows", to characterize the contemporary home and in turn function as social critiques. [FIAF]

McConnell, F.D.
"Song of innocence: the Creature from the black lagoon." Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol II nr 1 (Winter 1973); p 14-28
Uses "Creature from the black lagoon" as a point of departure for a discussion on the cultural implications of the 1950's horror films.

McCourt, James
"Douglas Sirk: Melo maestro."Film Comment Vol XI nr 6 (Nov-Dec 1975); p 18-21
Brief analyses of four Sirk masterpieces of the 1950's.

McCrillis, Neal R.
""Simply try for one hour to behave like gentlemen": British cinema during the early Cold War, 1945-1960." Film & History
Study of British Cold War culture which suggests that British films were less anti-communist and ideologically conservative than American films of the same period. [FIAF]

Medovoi, Leerom
"Identity Hits the Screen: Teenpics and the Boying of Rebellion." In: Rebels : youth and the Cold War origins of identity Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
MAIN: E169.12 .M425 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005012087.html

Mellencamp, Patricia.
"Five Ages of Film Feminism." In: Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment. / edited by Laleen Jayamanne. pp: 18-76. Sydney: Power Publications, c1995.
Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.K57 1995

Metz, Walter.
"'Keep the Coffee Hot, Hugo': Nuclear Trauma in Lang's 'The Big Heat.'" Film Criticism v21, n3 (Spring, 1997):43 (23 pages)
"The writer argues that the violence in Fritz Lang's 1953 movie "The Big Heat" emerges from a cultural anxiety over nuclear proliferation that permeated early 1950s American culture, particularly the film noir. He begins with a comparison of the movie with its novel version by William P. McGivern, arguing that whereas the novel connects the nuclear to issues of race, the movie forges the relationship between atomic energy and gender. He explains that in the film, a crime syndicate plants a car bomb that kills the protagonist's wife; the filming of the explosion resembles an atomic blast and does not show the bomb's damage, thus connecting the car bombing to a cliche common to 1950s films featuring the detonation of a nuclear device. Moreover, he notes that the scarring of the female character Debbie by means of hot coffee thrown at her face by her boyfriend suggests the consequences of radiation poisoning." [Art Index]

Miller, Anthony.
"Julius Caesar in the Cold War: The Houseman-Mankiewicz Film." Literature-Film Quarterly. 28(2):95-100. 2000

Morey, Anne.
"'The Judge Called Me an Accessory': Women's Prison Films, 1950-1962." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 23 no. 2. 1995 Summer. pp: 80-87.

Morris, Peter.
"Salt of the Earth." In: Celluloid Power: Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg. / [edited] by David Platt. pp: 485-493.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Main Stack PN1995.9.P6.C44 1992
Moffitt PN1995.9.P6.C44 1992

Moseley, Rachel.
"Respectability Sewn Up: Dressmaking and Film Star Style in the Fifties and Sixties." European Journal of Cultural Studies. 4(4):473-90. 2001 Nov

Mullins, Patrick
"Hollywood and the Beats: MGM does Kerouac's The subterraneans." Journal of Popular Film and Television;Vol.XXIX nr.1 (Spring 2001); p.32-41
Examines how the film "The subterraneans" contains some of the conflicting discourses faced by commercial filmmakers in the 1950's.

Murphy, Brenda.
Congressional theatre : dramatizing McCarthyism on stage, film, and television / Brenda Murphy. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999. Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 11
Main Stack PS338.P6.M87 1999

Murphy, Brian
"Monster movies : they came from beneath the Fifties." In: Movies as artifacts : cultural criticism of popular film / edited by Michael T. Marsden, John G. Nachbar, and Sam L. Grogg, Jr Chicago : Nelson-Hall, c1982
Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.M67 1982
Moffitt PN1993.5.U6.M67 1982

Murphy, Brian
"Monster movies : they came from beneath the Fifties." Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol I nr 1 (Winter 1972); p 31-44
Suggests that 1950's monster movies reflect the need to deal with fears specific to the time. [FIAF]

Nadel, Alan
Containment culture : American narrative, postmodernism, and the atomic age / Alan Nadel. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1995. New Americanists.
Main Stack E169.12.N324 1995

Neve, Brian
"The 1950s: The Case of Elia Kazan and On the Waterfront." In: Cinema, politics and society in America / edited by Philip Davies and Brian Neve. pp: 97-118 Manchester, [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1981
Main Stack PN1995.9.S6.C55; PN1995.9.S6.C5 1981b
Moffitt PN1995.9.S6.C5 1981 (another edition)

Neve, Brian
"Into the Fifties." In: Film and politics in America : a social tradition / Brian Neve. London; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Main PN1995.9.S6 N46 1992
Moffitt PN1995.9.S6 N46 1992

Newman, Vicky.
"Cinema, Women Teachers, and the 1950s and 1960s." Educational Studies. 32(4):416-38. 2001 Winter

Noonan, Bonnie
Women scientists in fifties science fiction films Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.S26 N66 2005; View current status of this item
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011461.html

Norden, Martin F.
"America And Its Fantasy Films: 1945-1951." Film & History 1982 12(1): 1-11.
Considers the fantasy films produced during 1945-51 symtomatic of US social conditions; focuses on the types and roles of characters in these films, discusses the social issues raised, and briefly compares these fantasy films with the science-fiction films of the 1950's.

Nuclear War Films
Edited by Jack G. Shaheen; foreword by Marshall Flaum. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1978.
UCB Main PN1995.9.W3 .N8

O'Donnell, Victoria
"Science fiction films and Cold War anxiety." In: Transforming the screen, 1950-1959 / Peter Lev. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. History of the American cinema ; v. 7
Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.H55 1990 v.7

Ostherr, Kirsten
"From Inner to Outer Space: World Health and the Postwar Alien Invasion Film." In: Cinematic prophylaxis : globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.D56 O88 2005; View current status of this item
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005011686.html

Paul, William
"The aesthetics of emergence." Film History Vol V nr 3 (Sept 1993); p 321-355
A history of the expectations surrounding each promotion of the 3-D gimmick and the short-lived public response; focuses on its introduction in the early 1950's. [FIAF]

Pauly, Thomas H.
"The Cold War Western." Western Humanities Review 33:3 (1979:Summer) 257

Pauly, Thomas H.
"The Way to Salvation: The Hollywood Blockbuster of the 1950s." Prospects: an Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies. 5:467-487. 1980. New York, NY

Perlstein, Daniel.
"Imagined Authority: Blackboard Jungle And The Project Of Educational Liberalism."Paedagogica Historica [Belgium] 2000 36(1): 407-424.
"The 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle portrayed the efforts of high school teacher Richard Dadier to overcome his students' resistance to the regime of the school. At the same time, Blackboard Jungle inaugurated the use of rock and roll music in movies, thereby heralding the emergence of a distinct youth culture. Representations of youth and schooling were uniquely suited to capture the anxieties that arose out of American familial, economic, and political conflicts in the 1950's. By synthesizing matters of male and state authority in an ambivalent blend of rebellion and social control, Blackboard Jungle articulated the ambiguities of the liberal ideology that schooling and the state more broadly could simultaneously ensure individual freedom and contain social conflicts. Blackboard Jungle's gendered narrative was mirrored in academic research into the causes of juvenile delinquency, in differing career paths for men and women educators, and in attacks on progressive curricula. By combining an examination of the film's narrative and visual technique with an analysis of its reception, this article explores the liberal ideology that has shaped American schooling." [America: History and Life]

Perrine, Tony A.
Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety / Toni A. Perrine. New York: Garland, 1998. Garland studies in American popular history and culture
UCB Main PN1995.9.W3.P49 1998

Poe, G. Tom.
"Secrets, Lies And Cold War Politics: "Making Sense" of Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent." Film History 1998 10(3): 332-345.
"Many Cold War critics of director Otto Preminger's 1962 adaptation of Allen Drury's right-wing political novel Advise and Consent (1958) complained that the film deviated too far from the novel in its liberal political and slant excessive portrayal of homosexuals." [America History and Life]

Porter, Vincent
"The hegemonic turn: film comedies in 1950s Britain." Journal of Popular British Cinema; nr.4 (2001); p.81-94
Analysis of 1950's British comedies, incl. 'Carry on' films which concludes that comedy was an ideal genre for resolving changing social and sexual attitudes in postwar Britain.

Porton, Richard
"American dreams, suburban nightmares." Cineaste Vol XX nr 1 (1993); p 12-15
On representations of the US suburb and 'suburban values' in films made from the 1950's to the present day.

Pronay, N.
"British Film Sources For The Cold-War - The Disappearance Of The Cinema-Going Public." Historical Journal Of Film Radio And Television, 1993, V13 N1:7-17.

Pratt, Ray.
Projecting paranoia : conspiratorial visions in American film / Ray Pratt. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2001. Culture America.
Main Stack PN1995.9.P6.P72 2001
For decades American cinema has mirrored and promoted the postmodern anxieties and paranoid perceptions embedded in our society. Tapping into the moviegoing audience's own projected fears, many Hollywood films seem to confirm our belief that there are indeed secret sinister forces at work and that our lives are at risk because of them. Pratt revisits blockbusters and cult favorites alike and shows how their images of conspiracy have been fostered by the public's increasing distrust of large organizations, producing in turn a cinematic "narrative of resistance" that challenges the status quo. He offers Seven Days in May and Dr. Strangelove as signposts of Cold War hysteria; Chinatown, The Conversation, and Missing as clear reflections of our distrust of political and corporate elites in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate; and Blue Velvet and The Stepfather as dark countermyths to the "family values" touted by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He also considers gender paranoia in films like Klute, Fatal Attraction, and Silence of the Lambs and reminds us that sometimes, as in Serpico, our guardian police forces need a bit of guarding themselves."

Pulleine, T.
"Hollywood's baby brother? British films of the Fifties." Films & Filmingno. 339 (December 1982) p. 19-22+

Quart, Leonard.
American Film and Society Since 1945 / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster. London: Macmillan, 1984. Series title: Contemporary United States (London, England)
UCB Main PN1993.5.U6 Q3 1984

Quart, Leonard.
"America's new wave cinema of the fifties." Cineaste Summer 1998 v23 i3 p56(2)
UC users only
"Morris Engel was an independent filmmaker quite ahead of his time. As the video release of three of his films show, Engel was one of the more accomplished pioneers of the hand-held 35mm slice-of-life films that characterized independent American cinema in the 1950s. The three films released are the award-winning 'Little Fugitive' which was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and the lesser known 'Lovers and Lollipops' (1955) and 'Weddings and Babies'(1958)." [Expanded Academic Index]

Ramsden, John.
"Refocusing 'The People's War': British War Films of the 1950s." (includes appendix on the war film boom of the 1950s) Journal of Contemporary History v33, n1 (Jan, 1998):35 (32 pages).

Rattigan, Neil
"The Last Gasp of the Middle Class: British War Films of the 1950s." In: Re-viewing British cinema, 1900-1992 : essays and interviews / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. pp: 143-53 Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.
Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.R4 1994

Recasting America: culture and politics in the age of cold war
Edited by Lary May. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
UCB Main E169.12 .R431 1989
UCB Moffitt E169.12 .R43 1989

Recchia, Edward
"Film Noir and the Western. The Centennial Review vol. 40 no. 3. 1996 Fall. pp: 601-14.

Roberts, Garyn G.
"Revelation, Humanity, and a Warning: Four Motifs of 1950s Science Fiction Invasion Films." Plot Conventions in American Popular Film. In: Beyond the Stars: Studies in American Popular Film 2 / edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller. pp: 130-42. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, c1990
Main Stack PN1995.9.C36.B49 1990;
Moffitt PN1995.9.C36.B49 1990

Roberts, Randy
John Wayne : American / Randy Roberts, James S. Olson. New York : The Free Press, c1995.
Main Stack PN2287.W454.R63 1995
Moffitt PN2287.W454.R63 1995

Rodowick, David N.
"Madness, authority and ideology : the domestic melodrama of the 1950s." In: Home is where the heart is : studies in melodrama and the woman's film / edited by Christine Gledhill. London : British Film Institute, 1987.
Main Stack PN1995.9.M4.H6
Moffitt PN1995.9.M4.H6

Roffman, Peter
The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair, and Politics From the Depression to the Fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1981.
UCB Main PN1995 .R63
UCB Moffitt PN1995 .R63

Rogin, Michael.
"Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies."Representations, vol. 6. 1984 Spring. pp: 1-36.
UC users only

Rutsky, R.L.
"Surfing the other: ideology on the beach."Film Quarterly Vol LII nr 4 (Summer 1999); p 12-23
Analysis of the teen-oriented beach movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s, emphasizing the attraction of nonconformity and non-Western cultures within these ostensibly conformist films. [FIAF]

Sargeant, Jack.
Naked lens: [beat cinema] London: Creation Books, 1997.
UCB Bancroft PN1995.9 .B43 1997
UCB Main PN1995.9 .B43 1997

Savage King, Chris
"Two-step to heaven." Modern Review Vol I nr 2 (Winter 1991-92); p 15-16
Unfavourably compares 1950's musicals with those of the 1930's; celebrates the independent screen persona of Ginger Rogers.

Sayre, Nora.
Running Time: Films of the Cold War / Nora Sayre. New York: Dial Press, c1982.
UCB Main PN1993.5.U6 S315 1982
UCB Moffitt PN1993.5.U6 S315 1982

Sayre, Nora.
"Watch the Skies." Grand Street, vol. 1 no. 2. 1982 Winter. pp: 51-58.

Scheiner, Georganne
"Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee: Beyond a White, Teen Icon." (portrayal of social values in 1950's) Frontiers June 2001 v22 i2 p87(21) (9229 words)
UC users only

Schoenwald, Jonathan M.
"Rewriting revolution: the origins, production and reception of Viva Zapata!" Film History Vol VIII nr 2 (1996); p 109-130
Documents the history of John Steinbeck's and Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata!" in terms of the political problems related to telling the story of a revolutionary hero in 1950's America. [FIAF]

Seed, David.
American science fiction and the Cold War: literature and film / David Seed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c1999.
Main Stack PS374.S35.S44 1999

Shain, Russell E.
"Filmography: "Cold War Films, 1948 - 1962: An Annotated Filmography" Journal of Popular Film 3:4 (1974:Fall) 365

Shain, Russell E.
"Hollywood's Cold War."Journal of Popular Film 3:4 (1974:Fall) 334

Shapiro, Jerome F.
"Atomic Bomb Cinema: Illness, Suffering, and the Apocalyptic Narrative." Literature and Medicine 17.1 (1998) 126-148
Shapiro traces the evolution of Atomic Bomb Cinema in U.S. and Japanese films from the 1950s and '60s. Utilizing the theories of Erik Erikson, John Collins, and Eric Cassell, this essay interprets Atomic Bomb Cinema through the lenses of crisis, apocalypse, and suffering. After contextualizing the films in relation to The Time Machine, the essay analyzes four films, On the Beach, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Mosura tai Gojira, and Ikimono no Kiroku.

Shapiro, Benjamin.
"Universal truths: cultural myths and generic adaptation in 1950s science fiction films."Journal of Popular Film and Television v18, n3 (Fall, 1990):103 (9 pages).
During the 1950's, the Hollywood science fiction film helped resolve the contradiction in American society between the desirability of change and the retention of existing values and beliefs.

Shaw, Tony.
"Martyrs, Miracles, And Martians: Religion And Cold War Cinematic Propaganda In The 1950s." Journal of Cold War Studies 2002 4(2): 3-22.
UC users only
" Examines Cold War film propaganda in the 1950's, when the cinema was enjoying its last period as the dominant visual mass entertainment form in both the West and the East. This article concentrates on the role that religion played as a theme of propaganda, primarily in British and American movies, but also in some of the Soviet films released during the decade. The article explores the relationship between film output and state propagandists to show how religious themes were incorporated into films dealing with Cold War issues and considers how audiences received the messages contained within these films. The article therefore builds on scholarship of the 1990's that highlights the importance of ideas and culture during the Cold War by looking at the adoption and adaptation of religion as a tool of propaganda." [America History and Life]

Shaw, Tony.
"British Feature Films and the Early Cold War." In: Cold-War propaganda in the 1950s / edited by Gary D. Rawnsley. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Main D843 .C57736 1999

Sickels, Robert
"All East on the Western Frontier: John Ford's My Darling Clementine." Film & History Vol.XXXI nr.1 (2001); p.13-21
"Argues that John Ford's film "My darling Clementine" is an example of the social attitudes taken in the early Cold War era, in which urban Eastern values win out over rural Western values." [FIAF Index to Film Periodicals]

Sikov, Ed.
Laughing hysterically : American screen comedy of the 1950s / Ed Sikov. New York : Columbia University Press, c1994. Film and culture.
Main Stack PN1995.9.C55.S49 1994

Simmons, Jerold.
"The Censoring of Rebel Without a Cause." Journal of Popular Film & Television. 23(2):57-63. 1995 Summer UCB users only

Simmons, Jerold.
"A damned nuisance. The Production Code and the Profanity Amendment of 1954."Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol XXV nr 2 (Summer 1997); p 76-82
Traces the history of Hollywood's Production Code during the 1950's, and how its waning relevance led to its demise in the late 1960's.

Singer, Marc P.
"Fear Of The Public Sphere: The Boxing Film in Cold War America (1947-1957)." Film & History 2001 31(1): 22-27.
Hollywood boxing films such as Body and Soul (1947) and The Set-Up (1949) provided an arena for playing out the complex tensions between individuality and conformity that characterized the early years of the Cold War.

Skinner, James M.
"Cliche and Convention in Hollywood's Cold War Anti-Communist Films." North Dakota Quarterly 1978 46(3): 35-40.
Films during 1947-52 promoted anti-Communism because of film-makers' political beliefs and as a reaction to scrutiny from the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Sklar, Robert
"'The lost audience': 1950s spectatorship and historical reception studies." In: Identifying Hollywood's audiences : cultural identity and the movies / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby. London : British Film Institute, 1999.
Main Stack PN1993.5.U65.I34 1999

Smith, Judith E.
"The Marrying Kind: Working-Class Courtship and Marriage in 1950s Hollywood." In: Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism / Diane Carson, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, editors. pp: 226-42. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1994.
Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.M82 1994
Moffitt PN1995.9.W6.M82 1994

Smoodin, Eric.
"Watching the Skies: Hollywood, the 1950s, and the Soviet Threat." Journal of American Culture. 11(2):35-40. 1988 Summer
"Analyzes two 1950's films, The Thing from Another World (1951) and Jet Pilot (1957), which reflect the powerful anti-Communism of the McCarthy era and reaffirm the sanctity of traditional American values. In opposite ways, both films stress the dangerous pervasiveness of Communism and the necessity of vigilance against the widely perceived Soviet threat to the United States during the Cold War." [America: History and Life]

Sobchack, Vivian Carol.
The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film, 1950-75 / Vivian Carol Sobchack. South Brunswicks, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, c1980.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 .S57 1980

Sodowsky, Alice; Roland Sodowsky; Stephen Witte
"Epic world of American Graffiti." In: Movies as artifacts : cultural criticism of popular film / edited by Michael T. Marsden, John G. Nachbar, and Sam L. Grogg, Jr Chicago : Nelson-Hall, c1982
Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.M67 1982
Moffitt PN1993.5.U6.M67 1982

Stafford, Roy
"What's showing at the Gaumont?": rethinking the study of British cinema in the 1950s." Journal of Popular British Cinema nr 4 (2001); p 95-111
Examination of distribution and exhibition practices in the north of England in the early 1950's. A detailed analysis discovers a more varied and complex exhibition culture than is normally associated with 1950's British cinema. [FIAF]

Stalinism and Soviet cinema
Edited by Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Main PN1993.5.R9 S73 1993

Sterritt, David.
Mad to be saved: the Beats, the '50s, and film / David Sterritt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1998.
UCB Main PS228.B6 S755 1998
UCB Moffitt PS228.B6 S755 1998Sterritt, David.

Stern, M.
"Patterns of power and potency repression and violence: an introduction to the study of Douglas Sirk's films of the 1950s." Velvet Light Trap nr 16 (Fall 1976); p 15-21
The themes of sexual potency in some of the films of D.S.

Sterritt, David.
Mad to be saved : the Beats, the '50s, and film Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1998.
MAIN: PS228.B6 S755 1998
MOFF: PS228.B6 S755 1998
PFA : PN1995.3 .S73 1998

Strada, Michael J.
"The Cinematic Bogy Man Comes Home: American Popular Perceptions of External Threat." Midwest Quarterly, vol. 28 no. 2. 1987 Winter. pp: 248-270.

Stratton, Jon
"Not really white - again: performing Jewish difference in Hollywood films since the 1980s." Screen; Vol.XLII nr.2 (Summer 2001); p.142-166
An analysis of how films of the 1950's and 60's represented Jews as assimilated into white America, followed by an examination of a transformation in "Yentl", "Zelig", and "Desperately seeking Susan".

Straughn, Victoria.
"Hollywood "Takes" On Domestic Subversion: The Role Of Women In Cold War America." Magazine of History 2003 17(2): 31-36.
Contains a lesson plan that discusses how Hollywood affected gender and domesticity during the Cold War through a review of the 1945 film Mildred Pierce.

Susman, Warren. Griffin, Edward
"Did Success Spoil the United States? Dual Representations in Postwar America." In: Recasting America : culture and politics in the age of cold war / edited by Lary May. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Main Stack E169.12.R431 1989
Moffitt E169.12.R43 1989

Taylor, Ella.
Prime-time Families: Television Culture in Postwar America / Ella Taylor. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1989.
UCB Main PN1992.8.F33 T391 1989
UCB Moffitt PN1992.8.F33 T39 1989

Throne, Marilyn
"Love in the Afternoon: A Cinematic Exposure of a 1950s Myth." Literature/Film Quarterly 16, no. 1 (1988): p. 65-73

Thumim, Janet
"'A live commercial for icing sugar'. Researching the historical audience: gender and broadcast television in the 1950s."Screen Vol XXXVI nr 1 (Spring 1995); p 48-55
A discussion of 1950's tv's contribution to the cultural construction of gender.

Tibbetts, John C.
"After the Fall: Revisioning the Cold --a report on the XVIIth AMHIST Conference, 25-31 July, Salisbury, MD." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 18:1, 1998, pp: 111-122

Torry, Robert.
"Apocalypse Then: Benefits of the Bomb in Fifties Science Fiction Films.Cinema Journal v. 31 (Fall '91) p. 7-21.
Visions of the apocalypse in science-fiction films of the 1950's, esp. "When worlds collide", "The day the earth stood still" and "War of the worlds".

Turovskaya, Maya
"Soviet Films of the Cold War." In: Stalinism and Soviet cinema / edited by Richard Taylor and Derek Spring. London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. Soviet cinema.
Main Stack PN1993.5.R9.S73 1993

Vieira, Mark A.
"Don't Step on It: Killer Bugs, Babes, and Beasts in 1950's Drive-In Cinema." Bright Lights Film Journal. 45: (no pagination). 2004 Aug.

Vieth, Errol
Screening science: contexts, texts, and science in fifties science fiction film Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
MAIN: PN1995.9 .V54 2001

DISSERTATION
Walrad, Jennifer Jill.
Visions of Masculinity in 1950s Science Fiction Film: How I Learned to Stop Worrying (about Mom) and Love the Bomb / by Jennifer Jill Walrad. 1991.
UCB Main 308t 1991 62
NRLF AS36.C3 A135 1991 62 Type EXP NRLF for loan details.

Warren, Bill
Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties / by Bill Warren; research associate, Bill Thomas. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1982-1986.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 .W37 1982 V.1 (1982)

Waugh, Thomas.
"The Films They Never Showed: The Flaherty-Seminar And The Cold-War." Wide Angle, vol. 17 no. 1-4. 1995. pp: 217-26.

Wells, Paul.
"The Invisible Man: Shrinking Masculinity in the 1950s Science Fiction B-Movie." In: You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men. New York / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim. pp: 181-99. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Main Stack PN1995.9.M46.Y68 1993
Moffitt PN1995.9.M46.Y68 1993

Whitehouse, Charles
"Hot Rod Rumble."Sight & Sound, 13 (6): 22-24 2003 June.

Whitfield, Stephen J.
"Sex and the single decade. American Literary History, Winter 2000 v12 i4 p771(9)
UC users only
"This article discusses sexuality and gender roles in the 1950's. The author explores the homogeneous culture of the suburban middle class, analyzing the literature and film of the time, as well as the Cold War, and its affect on the concept sex and gender roles." [Expanded Academic Index]

Whitaker, J.
"Hollywood transformed." Jump Cut nr 24-25 (Mar 1981); p 33-35
A group of lesbians discuss the sexual ideology of the 1950's and 1960's as reflected in the mass media.

Wierzbicki, James
"Wierd vibrations: how the theremin gave musical voice to Hollywood's extraterrestrial "others"."Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol XXX nr 3 (Fall 2002); p 125-135
Discusses the unique role that the theremin, an electronic instrument, played as an "unearthly" sound and the voice of alien entities in 1950's science-fiction films. [FIAF]

Wilinsky, Barbara
"'A thinly disguised art veneer covering a filthy sex picture': discourses on art houses in the 1950s." Film History Vol VIII nr 2 (1996); p 143-158
Reviews the debates surrounding the rise of foreign film exhibition in art houses in the United States in the 1950's.

"Women in Prison and Women in Dressing Gowns: Rediscovering the 1950s Films of J. Lee Thompson." Journal of Gender Studies, 11 (1): 5-15 2002 Mar.

Williams, Tony.
"Female Oppression in Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." Science-Fiction Studies, vol. 12 no. 3 (37). 1985 Nov. pp: 264-273.

Williamson, Catherine.
"Swimming Pools, Movie Stars: The Celebrity Body in the Post-War Market Place."Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 38: 5-28. 1996 May

Wills, Garry
John Wayne's America : the politics of celebrity / Garry Wills. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.
Main Stack PN2287.W454.W56 1997
Moffitt PN2287.W454.W56 1997

Wilson, Elizabeth
"Audrey Hepburn: Fashion, Film and the 50s." In: Women and film : a Sight and sound reader / edited by Pam Cook and Philip Dodd. pp: 36-40 Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993. Culture and the moving image.
Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.W63 1993
Moffitt PN1995.9.W6.W63 1993

Wolfe, Gary K.
"Dr. Strangelove, Red Alert, And Patterns Of Paranoia In The 1950's." Journal of Popular Film 1976 5(1): 57-67.
A look at paranoia in certain films and in culture in general. "Invasion of the body snatchers" shows 1940's fear of secret identities, while "Dr. Strangelove: or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb" reflects the 1950's fear of the bomb. [FIAF]

Young, Paul
"(Not) the Last Noir Essay: Film Noir and the Crisis of Postwar Interpretation." Minnesota Review, 55-57: 203-21 2002.

Zimmermann, P.J.
"Hollywood, home movies, and common sense: amateur films as aesthetic dissemination and social control, 1950-1962." Cinema Journal Vol XXVII nr 4 (Summer 1988); p 23-44
Study of amateur filmmaking in the USA focuses on its redefinition in popular magazines of the 1950's as 'home movies', private leisure-time activity for the nuclear family. [FIAF]

II. The Hollywood Blacklist

Elia Kazan bibliography
Documentaries about the blacklist

Abrams, Brett L.
"The First Hollywood Blacklist: The Major Studios Deal With The Conference Of Studio Unions, 1941-47." Southern California Quarterly 1995 77(3): 215-253.
"Traces the struggle between the conservative International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) and the liberal Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) for control of the craftsmen employed by the motion picture studios in Los Angeles between 1941 and 1947. The studios preferred recognition of IATSE locals, whose leaders accused the CSU of supporting communism and violence. The strikes of 1945 and 1946 brought local government, the studios, and the IATSE into a coalition against the CSU. By 1947 the CSU had lost the battle, its leaders branded as Communists and many workers siding with the IATSE just to preserve their jobs and status." [from ABC-CLIO America: History & Life]

American inquisition, 1945-1960 [sound recording]
Los Angeles, Calif. : Pacifica Tape Library, [1983?]
A chat between Leste Cole and Cedric Belfrage about their antifascistic activities that led to their blacklisting and deportation.
Media Center SOUND/C 402

"The Anti-Communist Crusade: Hollywood and HUAC."
In: The Cold War : a history through documents / compiled and edited by Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1999 [i.e. 1998]
Moffitt D839.3.C57 1998

Barzman, Norma.
The red and the blacklist : the intimate memoir of a Hollywood expatriate. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, c2003.
MAIN: PS3503.A754 Z476 2003

Benson, Thomas W.
"Looking for the public in the popular: the Hollywood blacklist and the rhetoric of collective memory." In: The terministic screen : rhetorical perspectives on film / edited by David Blakesley. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003.
Main Stack PN1994.T47 2003

Benson, Thomas W.; Gronbeck, Bruce E.
"Thinking through Film: Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist." In: Rhetoric and community: studies in unity and fragmentation / edited by J. Michael Hogan. pp: 217-64 Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, c1998. Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Main Stack P301.5.S63.R48 1998

Bentley, Eric
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been; The Investigation of Show Business by the Un-American Activities Committee, 1947-1958 [by] Eric Bentley. New York, Harper & Row [1972]. Series title: Harper colophon books, CN 1006.
UCB Grad Svcs XMAC.B477.A73 Modern Authors Collection
UCB Main PN1590.B5 B4 1972

Bernstein, Walter.
Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist / Walter Bernstein. [New York]: Da Capo Press, 2000.
UCB Main PN1998.3.B477 A3 2000

Bernstein, Walter.
Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist / Walter Bernstein. 1st ed. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996.
UCB Main PN1998.3.B477 A3 1996
UCB Moffitt PN1998.3.B477 A3 1996

Bernstein, Walter.
"Remembering the Blacklist." (excerpt from scriptwriter's book about being blacklisted in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, 'Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist') New York Times v145, sec2 (Sun, Oct 27, 1996):H18(N), H18(L), col 5, 20 col in.

Bessie, Alvah Cecil
Alvah Cecil Bessie papers.
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE: Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of the Manuscripts Division. COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Bancroft BANC MSS 79/117 z Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library. Shelved at NRLF: CARTON 1-CARTON 3Bessie, Alvah Cecil, 1904-

Bessie, Alvah Cecil
Inquisition in Eden [by] Alvah Bessie. New York, Macmillan [1965]
Bancroft F860.B366A3.1965 Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library.

Bessie, Alvah Cecil
The un-Americans. [1st. ed.] New York, Cameron Associates, 1957.
Bancroft PS3503.E9.U6 1957 Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library. NRLF #: W 33 310 (Restricted Circ)
Main Stack PS3503.Be778.U6

Billingsley, Lloyd.
Hollywood party : how communism seduced the American film industry in the 1930s and 1940s Rocklin, CA : Forum, c1998.
MAIN: PN1998.2 .B53 1998;
BANC: PN1998.2 .B53 1998

"Blacklist: memories of a word that marks an era." (excerpts from symposium'Remembering the Blacklist' at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York City, on investigations of... New York Times v143, sec2 (Sun, July 31, 1994):H3(N), H3(L), col 1, 47 col in.

Boisson, Steve.
"The Movie Hollywood Could Not Stop." American History 2002 36(6): 44-50.
"During the Red Scare of the 1950's, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico, two avowed Communists, encountered numerous difficulties in creating The Salt of the Earth (1954), a film about striking miners that exposed the discrimination that Mexican Americans faced in Grant County, New Mexico." [America History and Life]

Bosworth, Patricia.
"Giving credit where credit is long overdue." (screenwriters once blacklisted by House Un-American Activities Committee see their screencredits restored on 24 films) New York Times v146, sec2 (Sun, April 20, 1997):H13(N), H13(L), col 1, 18 col in.

Bowman, James.
"Loyalty Tests." (Anti-Communist hero Elia Kazan)American Spectator v32, n3 (March, 1999):68 (2 pages).
Anti-Communist hero Elia Kazan believes that being ideologically correct is more important than being loyal. Kazan's belief has been adopted by some Hollywood movies such as the film 'A Civil Action.'.

Biskind, Peter.
"The Past Is Prologue: The Blacklist In Hollywood." Radical America 1981 15(3): 59-65.
"Commentary on the recent literature on the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the blacklist of the Hollywood 10, focusing on Victor Navasky's Naming Names (1980). The key strategy was as evident in the movie industry of the 1950's as it was during the Vietnam War: have the good dissidents turn against the bad, uncooperative ones. This betrayal would bind them more securely to the center of the political spectrum." [from ABC-CLIO America: History & Life]

"The blacklist was a time of evil," address made on receiving the Laurel award. Time of the toad; pamphlet sold to raise funds for the legal defense o the Hollywood ten." Film Culture no. 50-51 (Fall-Winter 1970) p. 29-41

Boisson, Steve.
"The Movie Hollywood Could Not Stop." American History 2002 36(6): 44-50.
"During the Red Scare of the 1950's, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico, two avowed Communists, encountered numerous difficulties in creating The Salt of the Earth (1954), a film about striking miners that exposed the discrimination that Mexican Americans faced in Grant County, New Mexico." [America: History and Life]

Bosworth, Patricia
"Giving credit where credit is long overdue." (screenwriters once blacklisted by House Un-American Activities Committee see their screen credits restored on 24 films) The New York Times April 20, 1997 v146 s2 pH13(N) pH13(L) col 1 (18 col in)

ARCHIVE/MANUSCRIPT
Bright, John
Hollywood Blacklist: John Bright: oral history transcript / interviewed University of California, Los Angeles. 1991.
UCB Bancroft BANC MSS 92/100 c

Bright, John
"In 1929 John Bright breezed into Hollywood. He stayed to make movies (like "The Public Enemy") and trouble, from the Screen Writers Guild to the Blacklist. He relates it all, tangily, to our Lee Server." Film Comment 22:1 (1986:Jan./Feb.) 22

Brodie, John.
"Rebels Get Cause in Post-list Pix." (includes related article on re-crediting other films actually written by those blacklisted)(special section - 50th anniversary of the beginning of the...Variety v364, n6 (Sept 9, 1996):123.
Blacklisted screenwriters produced some of the most enduring films celebrating defiance and freedom of speech, both during and after Kirk Douglas broke the list by crediting Dalton Trumbo for 'Spartacus,' in 1960. Other films include 'Fail-Safe,' 'MASH,' and 'Midnight Cowboy.'

Buhle, Paul.
Blacklisted : the film lover's guide to the Hollywood blacklist New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
PFA : PN1993.5.U6 B84 2003

Buhle, Paul
Hide in plain sight : the Hollywood blacklistees in film and television, 1950-2002 New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
MAIN: PN1590.B5 B84 2003
MOFF: PN1590.B5 B84 2003
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol031/2003043313.html
Review of this book:Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 34.2 (2004) 91-92 [UC Berkeley users only]

Buhle, Paul.
"The Hollywood Blacklist and the Jew: An Exploration of Popular Culture." Tikkun 1995 vol 10 no. 5 pp: pp. 35 September 01
UC Berkeley users only
"Postwar Hollywood has been unkind to Jews when, despite a good showing of films made or starred in by Jews, a number of technicians, directors and writers were blacklisted. This came in the wake of McCarthyism whose one subtext thinly veiled an anti-Semitic stance." [Expanded Academic Index]

Buhle, Paul
A very dangerous citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood left Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.
MAIN: PS3531.O377 Z59 2001
BANC: PS3531.O377 Z59 2001; Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library

Burton, Michael C.
John Henry Faulk, A Biography: The Making of a Liberated Mind / by Michael C. Burton. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, c1993.
Main Stack PS3556.A92.Z59 1993

Butler, Michael
"Shock Waves." Cinema Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 79-85, Summer 2005
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Butler, T.
"Polonsky and Kazan." [HUAC and the violation of personality]. Sight & Sound v. 57 (Autumn 1988) p. 262-7

Carr, Gary L.
The Left Side of Paradise: The Screenwriting of John Howard Lawson / by Gary Carr. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, c1984. Series title: Studies in cinema; no. 26.
UCB Main PN1998.A3 L3763 1984

Caute, David.
The great fear : the anti-Communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower New York : Simon and Schuster, c1978
MAIN: E743.5 .C35; MOFF: E743.5 .C35; IIRL: E743.5 .C35; Storage Info: B 4 414 758

Ceplair, Larry.
"Blacklist? Never heard of it" [Views of R. Reagan on Hollywood blacklist]. The Nation v. 232 (January 31 1981) p. 109-10

Ceplair, Larry.
The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960 / Larry Ceplair & Steven Englund. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1983.
fMain Stack PN1993.5.U6.C4 1983
MAIN: PN1993.5.U6 C4 2003
Moffitt PN1993.5.U6.C4 1983 [earlier edition]
Bancroft F867.M6.C4 [earlier edition]
Table of Contents from Google books

""Circus of fear"; the background of the Hollywood blacklist--an edited transcript of a taped interview." Film Culture no. 50-51 (Fall-Winter 1970) p. 22-5

Cogley, John.
Report on Blacklisting. [New York]: Fund for the Republic, 1956.
Main Stack PN1993.65.U6 C63; v. 1-2 ([1956])

Cohen, Joan.
"The Culture Of The Blacklist." Mankind 1978 6(3): 16-20.
"For over 15 years, scores of Hollywood performers, writers, producers, and directors were forbidden from working in their craft owing to their real or alleged previous contacts with left-wing ideologies. Their condition resulted in many personal tragedies, including broken friendships and marriages and the destruction of careers. Only in recent years have some of those victimized been able to return to their professions. Many of those "blacklisted" emigrated to Europe or Mexico where they either participated in native entertainment enterprises or continued to write for the Hollywood market under assumed names. Excerpts from the correspondence of screen writer Dalton Trumbo illustrate the problems inherent in the latter. Others remained in the United States and either retired or assumed other occupations." [from ABC-CLIO America: History & Life]

Cohen, Karl F.
Forbidden animation: censored cartoons and blacklisted animators in America Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1997.
MAIN: NC1766.5.C45 C64 1997

Cohen, Karl
"Toontown's reds: HUAC's investigation of alleged communists in the animation industry." Film History Vol V nr 2 (June 1993); p 190-203
Report on the hunt for Communist infiltrators in the US animation industry of the 1950's; incl. the full testimony of Bernyce Polifka Fleury.

Cole, Lester
Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole. Palo Alto, Calif.: Ramparts Press, c1981.
UCB Bancroft F860 .A3C63
UCB Main PN1998.A3A12 C64

Cox, Dan
"'Commie Carnival' revisited: despite Red Scare scars, H'wood lures blacklist kids." (Hollywood)(special section - 50th anniversary of the beginning of the anti-communist blacklist/Red Scare persecutions in the US entertainment industry)(Cover Story) Variety Sept 9, 1996 v364 n6 p1(2)
A decade or more of unemployment was suffered not only by blacklisted entertainers and writers, but by their families as well. The children of Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Elia Kazan, and Michael Wilson comment on the continuing impacts of the blacklist.

A Crime to fit the punishment [videorecording]
In 1956, during the height of the Cold War and despite severe pressure from McCarthy ravaged Hollywood and the U.S. government, blacklisted filmmakers joined together to create the controversial pro-union semi-documentary Salt of the earth. This film investigates the background and political atmosphere surrounding the film's production through interviews with the film producer Paul Jarrico and actors, newsreels from the '50s, and clips from the film. 46 min. Video/C 9289

"Decades later, naming names still matters; Arthur Laurents talks with Frank Rich about his play 'Jolson Sings Again' and revisits the blacklist." New York Times, sec2 (Sun, March 14, 1999):AR7(L), col 1, 25 col in.

Dick, Bernard F.
Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten / Bernard F. Dick. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c1989.
UCB Main PN1998.2 .D51 1989
UCB Moffitt PN1998.2 .D5 1989
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Dmohowski, Joseph
"The Friendly Persuasion (1956) screenplay controversy. Michael Wilson, Jessamyn West, and the Hollywood blacklist." (Critical Essay)Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Oct 2002 v22 i4 p491(24)
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Dmytryk, Edward.
Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten / Edward Dmytryk. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1996.
UCB Moffitt PN1998.3.D6 A3 1996

Dunne, Philip
Take Two: A Life in Movi