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• Biographies (9) • Encyclopedias (3) • Dictionaries (1) • Essays (9) • Film Reviews (6) • Studies (80) • Interviews (1) • Stories (8) • Photos (3) • Writings (2)
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• Biographies (9 books)(0 book)
Dashing to the End (2025)
The Ray Milland Story
by Eric Monder
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Ray Milland
Jean Peters (2024)
Hollywood's Mystery Girl
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actress > Jean Peters
Aline Macmahon (2022)
Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Aline MacMahon
Jayne Mansfield (2021)
The Girl Couldn't Help It
by Eve Golden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Jayne Mansfield
Mean...Moody...Magnificent! (2021)
Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Jane Russell
José Ferrer (2020)
Success and Survival
by Mike Peros
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > José Ferrer
Sterling Hayden's Wars (2018)
by Lee Mandel
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Sterling Hayden
Van Johnson (2016)
MGM's Golden Boy
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Van Johnson
Glenn Ford (2011)
A Life
by Peter Ford
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Actor > Glenn Ford
• Encyclopedias (3 books)(0 book)
Television Series of the 1950s (2016)
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Keep Watching the Skies! (2016)
American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition
by Bill Warren
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
The Fifties, Transforming the Screen 1950–1959 (2003)
History of Amarican cinema vol.7
by Peter Lev
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
• Dictionaries (1 book)(0 book)
Feature Films, 1950–1959 (2009)
A United States Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Per period
• Essays (9 books)(0 book)
The Eternal Future of the 1950s (2023)
Essays on the Lasting Influence of the Decade's Science Fiction Films
Dir. Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Australian Westerns in the Fifties (2022)
Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on Tour, and Whiplash
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Invasion USA (2017)
Essays on Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s
Dir. David J. Hogan
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
On the Eve of the Future (2017)
Selected Writings on Film
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
An Army of Phantoms (2011)
American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
by J. Hoberman
Publisher: The New Press
Subject: Sociology
Seeing is Believing (2001)
How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Subject: Countries > United States
British Cinema in the Fifties (2000)
Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
In the Name of National Security (1993)
Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
• Film Reviews (6 books)(0 book)
French Cinema (2015)
A Critical Filmography - vol.2, 1940-1958
by Colin Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
It Came from 1957 (2013)
A Critical Guide to the Year's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
by Rob Craig
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Per period
I Lost it at the Movies (1994)
by Pauline Kael
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Subject: On Films > Movie reviews
• Studies (80 books)(0 book)
Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema (2025)
Dir. Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Great Expectations (2025)
British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960
Dir. Ehsan Khoshbakht
Publisher: Éditions de l'Œil
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
La Société Technicolor (2025)
The History of French Société Technicolor
by Manon Décor
Publisher: L'Œil nu
(in French and English)
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Feeling Colour (2025)
Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s-1960s
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Rock around the Clock (2025)
Exploitation, Rock 'n' roll and the Origins of Youth Culture
by Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: One Film > Rock around the Clock
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe (2024)
Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space
by Lucie Cesálková, Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Perrine Val and Paolo Villa
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968 (2024)
An Ethnographic Study
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Science Fiction Theatre (2024)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Transatlantic Cinephilia (2023)
Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: General
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties (2023)
The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Countries > United States
Selling Science Fiction Cinema (2023)
Making and Marketing a Genre
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Fractured Fifties (2023)
The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema (2023)
Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century
Dir. Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Pioneers of "B" Television (2022)
Independent Producers, Series and Pilots of the 1950s
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema (2022)
Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema (2022)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Suzuki Seijun
Italian Cinema Audiences (2022)
Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy
by Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O'Rawe, Danielle Hipkins and Silvia Dibeltulo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Post-War Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960 (2021)
New Faces, New Values
by Mats Björkin
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Triumph over Containment (2021)
American Film in the 1950s
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Screening the Hollywood Rebels in 1950s Britain (2021)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Sociology
Projections of Passing (2021)
Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: On Films > Per period
From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors (2021)
Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Staging West German Democracy (2020)
Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963
by Jan Uelzmann and Imke Meyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
British Film Music (2020)
Musical Traditions in British Cinema, 1930s-1950s
by Paul Mazey
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Cold War Cosmopolitanism (2020)
Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Reel Men (2019)
Australian Masculinity in the Movies 1949-1962
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing (MUP)
Runaway Hollywood (2019)
Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Ripping England! (2018)
Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Mock Classicism (2018)
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
by Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Heroes Never Die (2018)
The Italian Peplum Phenomenon 1950-1967
Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Demographic Angst (2017)
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s
by Alan Nadel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain (2017)
Recontextualizing Cultural Anxiety
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
A Search for Belonging (2017)
The Mexican Cinema of Luis Buñuel
by Marc Ripley
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel
Apocalypse Then (2017)
American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951–1967
by Mike Bogue
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
Hollywood Divided (2016)
The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Movie Comedians of the 1950s (2016)
Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Postwar Renoir (2016)
Film and the Memory of Violence
by Colin Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Jean Renoir
The Appreciation of Film (2016)
The Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Sociology
Governing Visions of the Real (2016)
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957–1969 (2015)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Cool and the Crazy (2015)
Pop Fifties Cinema
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist (2014)
Reading the Hollywood Reds
by Jeff Smith
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Hollywood Exiles in Europe (2014)
The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema (2013)
Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Vital Crises in Italian Cinema (2013)
Iconography, Stylistics, Politics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema (2012)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Brutal Vision (2012)
The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Dismantling the Dream Factory (2012)
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
by Hester Baer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema (2011)
Robert Stemmle's Toxi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
The Baseball Film in Postwar America (2011)
A Critical Study, 1948–1962
by Ron Briley
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
The New Entrepreneurs (2010)
An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Femininity in the Frame (2009)
Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema
by Melanie Bell
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Runaway Romances (2009)
Hollywood's Postwar Tour of Europe
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood's Tennessee (2009)
The Williams Films and Postwar America
by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Others persons > Tennessee Williams
It's the Pictures That Got Small (2009)
Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Framing the Fifties (2008)
Cinema in a Divided Germany
Dir. John Davidson and Sabine Hake
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Hollywood Independents (2008)
The Postwar Talent Takeover
by Denise Mann
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: History of Cinema
British Cinema of the 1950s (2007)
The Decline of Deference
by Sue Harper and Vincent Porter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
American Cinema of the 1950s (2005)
Themes and Variations
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Lost in the Fifties (2005)
Recovering Phantom Hollywood
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films (2005)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s (2005)
Coming to a TV Near You
by Su Holmes
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold (2004)
Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
Publisher: Duke University Press
The Inquisition in Hollywood (2003)
Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960
by Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: History of Cinema
British Cinema in the 1950s (2003)
A Celebration
Dir. Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Teenagers and Teenpics (2002)
The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950's
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
Masked Men (1997)
Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties
by Steve Cohan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Sociology
Laughing Hysterically (1996)
American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
by Ed Sikov
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Censorship and the Permissive Society (1995)
British Cinema and Theatre, 1955-1965
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Making Movies Black (1993)
The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Sociology
All that Hollywood Allows (1991)
Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama
by Jackie Byars
Publisher: Routledge
Cahiers du Cinéma (1986)
The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave
by Jim Hillier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
• Interviews (1 book)(0 book)
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (2017)
Interviews With Stars from Hollywood's Golden Era
by James Bawden and Ron Miller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor
• Stories (8 books)(0 book)
The CinemaScope Years (2025)
Films That Revolutionized Moviegoing, 1953–1967
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Breaking the Code (2023)
Otto Preminger Versus Hollywood's Censors
by Nat Segaloff
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Director > Otto Preminger
Hard-Boiled Hollywood (2017)
Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
by Jon Lewis
Publisher: University of California Press
The Apu Trilogy (2010)
Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: One Film > The Apu Trilogy
Larger Than Life (2010)
Movie Stars of the 1950s
Dir. R. Barton Palmer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Cheap Tricks and Class Acts (2009)
Special Effects, Makeup and Stunts from the Fantastic Fifties
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Hollywood Quarterly (2002)
Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957
Dir. Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
• Photos (3 books)(0 book)
Riviera cocktail (2021)
Côte d'Azur et jet set of the 1950s
by Edward Quinn
Publisher: teNeues
Subject: On Films > On Set Photos
Film-Star Portraits of the Fifties (2011)
163 Glamour Photos
by John Kobal
Publisher: Dover Publications
• Writings (2 books)(0 book)
Cahiers du Cinema (2000)
Dir. Nick Browne and Jim Hillier
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Cahiers du Cinema (1985)
Volume I: The 1950s. Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave.
Dir. Jim Hillier
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
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