It Came From the 1950s!

1. Introduction
Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, Bernice M. Murphy

2. A-Bombs, B-Pictures, and C-Cups
David J. Skal

3. ‘It’s in the Trees! It’s Coming!’ Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Darryl Jones

4. Mutants and Monsters
Kim Newman

5. ‘Don’t Dare See It Alone!’ The Fifties Hammer Invasion
Wayne Kinsey

6. Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s
Mark Jancovich, Derek Johnston

7. Hammer’s Dracula

Christopher Frayling

8. Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America
Elizabeth McCarthy

9. ‘A Search for the Father-Image’: Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch’s 1950s Fiction
Kevin Corstorphine

10. ‘Reading her Difficult Riddle’: Shirley Jackson and Late 1950s’ Anthropology
Dara Downey

11. ‘At My Cooking I Feel It Looking’: Food, Domestic Fantasies and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath’s Writing
Lorna Piatti-Farnell

12. ‘All that Zombies Allow’ Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far from Heaven and Fido

Bernice M. Murphy

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Media Research, Film History, Theatre History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Studies