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  • Title: 1960s
    Author: Edward J. Rielly
    Publication Date: 2003
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E169.12 .R53 2003
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Part of "American Popular Culture Through History" series. Chapters: Everyday America; World of Youth; Advertising; Architecture; Fashion; Food; Leisure Activities; Literature; Music; Performing Arts; Travel; and Visual Arts. Appendix - Cost of Products in the 1960s.

  • Title: Afro-American Nationalism: An Annotated Bibliography of Militant Separatist and Nationalist Literature
    Author: Augustina Herod and Charles C. Herod
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E185.625.H47 1986
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Includes indexes.

  • Title: American Advertising: A Reference Guide
    Author: Emelda L. Williams and Donald W. Hendon
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: HF5823.W54 1988
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Bibliography; includes indexes.

  • Title: An American in Communist China
    Author: NAEB
    Publication Date: 4/27
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 58-Sp. 7
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Interview with Earl Williamson, one of the 41 young Americans who toured Communist China in the summer of 1957 after visiting the Moscow Youth Festival.

  • Title: Are We Winning Mommy? America and the Cold War
    Author: Cinema Guild
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E744.A73 1986
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Using archival footage, period music, and interviews, this film traces the roots, evolution, and manifestations of anti-Communist sentiment in the United States since 1945.

  • Title: As Seen by Both Sides: American & Vietnamese Artists Look at the War.
    Author: Southwest Missouri State University
    Publication Date: 1995
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: N6512.A788 1995
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Examines the history and tour of the remarkable exhibit of the same name, and features paintings, rare Vietnamese and American archival footage, and interviews with artists, writers, scholars, veterans and students. The program offers insight into the role which the arts play in chronicling and shaping popular and historical interpretations of the war.

  • Title: Behind the Iron Curtain
    Author: WUOM, University of Michigan
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-48-2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: A series of documentaries on the gathering, writing and dissemination of news in this country today, compiled from interviews with journalists.

  • Title: Beyond Vietnam
    Author: WRVR Radio
    Publication Date: 4/18
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 67-Sp.7
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Beyond Vietnam. Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., given at Riverside Church in New York City, April 4, 1967, and sponsored by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam.

  • Title: Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War
    Author: Frank J. Wetta and Stephen J. Curley
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1995.9.W3W48 1992
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Includes a section on the Cold War.

  • Title: China Gate
    Author: Samuel Fuller (Producer/Director)
    Publication Date: 1989
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.C395 1989
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: An American mercenary explosives expert must lead a French Foreign Legion patrol deep into Viet Minh territory to destroy a strategic ammo dump in the "China Gate" pass. To safely guide them through the jungle, the Legion commander bribes "Lucky Legs", a Eurasian girl who was once married to Brock. Brock abandoned his wife and their son because he could not face the shame of having fathered a racially-mixed child. Now Brock and Lucky must reconcile their differences in order to survive. Originally released as motion picture in 1957 by 20th Century Fox. Starring Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat King Cole.

  • Title: China: Policy and Perspective - Cultural Revolution
    Author: University of Chicago
    Publication Date: 10/1
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 67-46-2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Series of talks from University of Chicago dealing with current events in China. This program: China's Political Development and the Cultural Revolution. Tang Tsou of University of Chicago.

  • Title: Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967. Part One: The Associated Negro Press News Releases, 1928-1964
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Microform
    Location: McKeldin Microform
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN4882.5.C525 1984
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: This collection from the Chicago Historical Society contains the available news releases of the Associated Negro Press (ANP) from 1928 to 1964. Founded by Claude A. Barnett in 1919, the ANP was the largest and longest running news service designed to provide black newspapers in the U.S. with news, commentary, literary pieces, and other material of interest to black citizens. The collection is valuable as a record of black life in America. The guide (McKeldin Reference PN4882.5.C525 1984 GUIDE FOLIO ) provides a detailed chronological listing for the material on each reel of microfilm.

  • Title: Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945-1990
    Author: Richard A. Schwartz
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E169.12.S39 1998
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Comprehensive encyclopedia of American Cold War popular culture.

  • Title: Cold War File
    Author: Andy East
    Publication Date: 1983
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PR830.S65E3
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Bibliography of history and criticism of English and American espionage fiction.

  • Title: Cold War, Hegemony, Postmodernism: American Television
    Author: Schwoch, James
    Publication Date: 9/23
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 3732
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward

  • Title: Communism and Anti-Communism in the United States: An Annotated Guide to Historical Writings
    Author: John Earl Haynes
    Publication Date: 1987
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: HX83.H259 1987
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: This book contains bibliographic listings of books, journals and other sources that are relevant to this topic.

  • Title: Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyhism on Stage, Film, and Television
    Author: Brenda Murphy
    Publication Date: 1999
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PS338.P6M87 1999
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Title: Crime, Detective, Espionage, Mystery and Thriller Fiction and Film: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Critical Writing Through 1979
    Author: David Skene Melvin and Ann Skene Melvin
    Publication Date: 1980
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN3448.D4S53
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Bibliography; indexes to history and criticism.

  • Title: Czech and Slovak Self-Image and the Czech and Slovak Image of the Americans, Germans, Russians, and Chinese
    Author: Radio Free Europe
    Publication Date: 9/1/
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 1969
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Czech and Slovak Self-Image and the Czech and Slovak Image of the Americans, Germans, Russians, and Chinese

  • Title: David Halberstam's The Fifties
    Author: A & E Home Video
    Publication Date: 1997
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E169.02.F53 1997 pt. 1-6
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Six parts: "The Fear and the Dream," "Sellling the American Way," "Let's Play House," "A Burning Desire," "The Beat," and "The Rage Within: The Road to the Sixties."

  • Title: Day the Earth Stood Still
    Author: CBS Fox Video
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.D338 pt. 1 and pt. 2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. "A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, Earth will be destroyed by the more advanced planets of the universe." A science fiction classic.

  • Title: Derek McGinty Show
    Author: WAMU 88.5FM
    Publication Date: 8/5/
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 187
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: James Clad - Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ken Jensen - Director of Research Studies at the United States Institute of Peace on how ethnic strife and tensions have filled the void that the Cold War left.

  • Title: Derek McGinty Show
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 5/21
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 90
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Dr. Susan Richards - Author of Epics of Everyday Life talks about life in the Soviet Union

  • Title: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Author: Voyager Co.
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.D63 pt. 1 and pt. 2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. "A USAF general launches a nuclear attack on Russia. When it can't be recalled, and destruction is inevitable, all concerned sit back and wait the destruction of the world." Considered by many to be one of the best films ever made.

  • Title: Education in East and West Germany: A Bibliography
    Author: Val D. Rust
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LA722.R87 1984
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Includes indexes.

  • Title: Education in the People's Republic of China: Past and Present
    Author: Frank Parker and Betty June Parker
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LA1131.P257 1986
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Bibliography; includes indexes.

  • Title: Eisenhower Years Thru the Conquest of Space
    Author: Chelsea House
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E839.E58
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Film clips of important news events spanning the Eisenhower administration to the first man on the moon.

  • Title: Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960
    Author: Luther F. Sies
    Publication Date: 2000
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1991.2.S57 2000
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Includes a list of radio shows and personalities as well as miscellaneous information regarding the Radio scene from 1920-1960. Modern radio is also discussed in this A-Z guide.

  • Title: Encyclopedia of American Radio: An A-Z Guide from Jack Benny to Howard Stern
    Author: Ron Lackmann
    Publication Date: 2000
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1991.3.U6L29 2000
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Revised edition of Same Time, Same Station (1996).

  • Title: Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era
    Author: William K. Klingaman
    Publication Date: 1996
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E743.5.K57 1996
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: This sources includes a chronological organization of events during the McCarthy Era ranging from the period of 1947 through 1954 as well as key definitions of people, places and important events.

  • Title: Entertainment in the Soviet Union
    Author: NAEB
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 9-3
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Entertainment in the Soviet Union

  • Title: Film Noir
    Author: Annenberg/CPB Project
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1993.5.U6A845 1994 pt. 7
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Explores how the film noir genre, which reached its peak in the 1950s, reflected the pessimism and paranoia that were signs of the times. With the nuclear threat looming and the McCarthy era in full swing, these 'black films' were a mirror of the American psyche.

  • Title: From Russia With Love
    Author: Voyager Co.
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.F757 1992
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. "A beautiful Russian girl is used as part of an international conspiracy to kill James Bond, Agent 007."

  • Title: Front (The)
    Author: Walter Bernstein (Writer)/Martin Ritt (Producer/Director)
    Publication Date: 1989
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.F758 1989
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: A searing indictment of the McCarthy era blacklisting and Communist witch hunts of the 1950s. Woody Allen plays a hapless ghost writer fated to become a symbolic hero. Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.

  • Title: Frontline - Comrades: All That Jazz
    Author: WGBH
    Publication Date: 7/15
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 365
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Portrait of underground musician in Russia.

  • Title: Frontline - Russia: Love It or Leave It
    Author: WGBH
    Publication Date: 2/11
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 431
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Exploration of Russian people's opinions and ideals about their own country.

  • Title: Frontline - Russians are Here, The
    Author: WGBH, Boston and Public Television Stations Nationwide
    Publication Date: 6/13
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 432
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Americans know little about the increasing number of Russians who chose to leave their homeland for more freedom in the United States.

  • Title: Frontline- Comrades: October Harvest
    Author: WGBH Boston and other Public TV Stations nationwide
    Publication Date: 9/2/
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 372
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: This program is about harvest time at a collective farm in Russia where people work for the state and themselves, for profit and for politics.

  • Title: Frontline: Comrades: Leningrad Movie
    Author: A BBC Production in association with WGBH Boston and other Public TV Stations nationwide.
    Publication Date: 9/9/
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 370
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: A close-up look at a Russian movie director trying to negotiate politics in her films. The last in a 12-part series on the USSR.

  • Title: Frontline: Journey to Russia
    Author: WGBH
    Publication Date: 6/11
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 406
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: As students travel to the Soviet Union, we learn of Russian perceptions of Americans, as they learn of the American perceptions of them.

  • Title: Frontline: Vietnam Memorial
    Author: PBS Video
    Publication Date: 1983
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: UB357.V54
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Depicts the five-day National Salute to Vietnam Veterans sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, during which veterans and their families rallied in Washington, D.C. to dedicate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Constitution Gardens.

  • Title: Go Tell the Spartans
    Author: Spartan Co./Vestron Video
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.G564 1986
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Story about a hard-broiled major in command of a grubby Vietnam outpost in 1964 when the war was still a conflict and American soliders were merely advisors. Originally released as motion picture in 1977. Starring Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard, David Clennon, Evan Kim, Dolph Sweet, Marc Singer.

  • Title: Groupthink
    Author: Kirby Timmons/CRM Films
    Publication Date: 1991
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: HM133.G78 1991 and HM133.G78 1991 guide
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Presents case histories of tragedies like space shuttle Challenger, Pearl Harbor and the Cuban Bay of Pigs which resulted from the natural tendency to achieve agreement for the sake of group unity. Features interviews with Dr. Irving Janis and Dr. James K. Esser and gives groupthink symptoms to avoid.

  • Title: Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema
    Author: Charles P. Mitchell
    Publication Date: 2001
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1995.9.S26M575
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Films rated and categorized by subjects, including "Nuclear War and Radioactive Fallout" and "Germ Warfare or Pestilence." Includes apocalytpic television and photo essay.

  • Title: History of Political Song in Cuba
    Author: Pacifica Radio
    Publication Date: 1973
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 1157
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Latin America
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Since 1959, political song has been a state sponsored art in Cuba. What has the avowedly-marxist country in Latin America produced as popular art? This program covers a wide selection from over thirty records including the music of Carlos Puebla, Pablo Milanes, Radio Rebelde and many others over the past thirty years. Moving, simply spoken this music has a lyric strength and Latino beat. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.

  • Title: History of Political Song in Cuba
    Author: Pacifica Radio
    Publication Date: 1973
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 1158
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Latin America
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Since 1959, political song has been a state sponsored art in Cuba. This recording of more than 30 songs, contains recordings not available in the U.S. including the work of Carlos Puebla, Pablo Milanes, Radio Rebelde. The origins, influences and different styles of song in Cuba are described, and in many instances a summary of the lyrics is given. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides. Part 2

  • Title: In the Midst of War
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 1453
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: In the Midst of War - Part One. A Report on Folk Music in Vietnam, 1965-1967, by SLO, American Embassy, Saigon, Vietnam. Script by Ed Lansdale; Narration by Hank Miller. Cultural exchange. Produced for Voice of America (VOA);U.S. Information Agency (USIA). Titles: Allies Folk Songs (Arirang, Planting Rice, by Addis & Duy); Dog-Faced Soldier, Proud American, Bulgar Wheat, by Gober; Suc May Ma Buon (Why Be Sad), by Duy; Gui Gio Gho (Dinh); Tien En (P.M. Ky); Toi Co (P.M. Ky); Picture of a Man, Look over my Shoulder (Gober); On Behalf (I Must Kill One Man) by Duy; RD Cadre Songs: Let's Build a New Life Hamlet, To Sing Often is Better than to Sing with a Good Voice, Wearing the Black Costume, A Cup of Rice is a Cup of Sweet and a Cup of Blood; Six Clicks (Gober); Silent Night; Birth of a Nation, Proud American (Gober); Vietnamese Work Song, Vietnamese Children's Song, Vietnam, Vietnam (Duy & Villagers). Gift of Jenny Garmendia. Part of Henry L. Miller and Anne Lorentz Miller Collection.

  • Title: In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
    Author: Impact Productions
    Publication Date: 1983
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: U263.I35
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Presents interviews with twenty-seven youths, six to eighteen years old, who discuss why the nuclear threat is ignored and what would happen during an atomic blast. Discusses the psychological effect of the nuclear war threat on children. Also gives brief glimpsed of atomic bomb blasts and of a Hiroshima survivor as he describes his experience.

  • Title: Inside Gorbachev's USSR
    Author: Coronet/MTI Film & Video
    Publication Date: 1993
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK288.I67 1990 pt. 1-4 and DK288.I67 1990 guide pt. 1-4
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Four parts: "The Taste of Democracy," "Comfortable Lies, Bitter Truths," " Looking for Perestroika," and "Coming Apart."

  • Title: Inside Story - Special Edition: Vietnam Op-Ed
    Publication Date: 6/18
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 717
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Analysis of PBS documentary interpretation of the Vietnam War in the series "Vietnam: A Television History"

  • Title: Inside Story - Special Edition: Vietnam Op-Ed - reel 2
    Publication Date: 6/18
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 718
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Analysis of PBS documentary interpretation of the Vietnam War in the series "Vietnam: A Television History" Part 2

  • Title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    Author: Voyager Co.
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.I59 pt. 1 and pt. 2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. "A small American town is imperceptibly taken over by an alien force as the citizens are gradually replaced by unfeeling clones." Classic example of 1950s Communist paranoia.

  • Title: Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
    Author: Direct Cinema
    Publication Date: 1987
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1590.B5L45 and PN1590.B5L45 guide
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Examines the long-term effects of the investigation of alleged communist activities in Hollywood by the HUAC. Also includes interviews with women whose husbands were blacklisted actors, writers, producers and directors.

  • Title: Leisure Time, U.S.S.R
    Author: Videorecord
    Publication Date: 1972
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: HD4904.7.L4
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: This film explores the results of the increase in leisure time available to citizens of the U.S.S.R. It shows the kinds of entertainment that they enjoy and their travel destinations.

  • Title: Limitations on Freedom of Expression
    Author: NAEB
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 9-5
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Limitations on Freedom of Expression in the Soviet Union

  • Title: Making Sense of the Sixties
    Author: PBS Video
    Publication Date: 1981
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: HN59.M25 1991 no. 1-6
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Six parts: "Seeds of the Sixties," "We Can Change the World," Breaking Boundaries, Testing Limits," "In a Dark Time," "Picking Up the Pieces," and "Legacy of the Sixties."

  • Title: Manchurian Candidate
    Author: MGM/UA Home Video
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.M275
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. "A US Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning that transforms Harvey into a human time bomb." A classic.

  • Title: MASH
    Author: Robert Altman
    Publication Date: 1990
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.M37 1990
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Highlights the outrageous antics of three skilled young surgeons drafted from civilian life and assigned to a unit of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. Stars Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, and Robert Duvall.

  • Title: Media and Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Policy, The
    Author: Freedom Forum Media Studies Center
    Publication Date: 3/21
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 717
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Freedom Forum Media Studies Center Briefing Paper

  • Title: Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature(s)/Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures
    Author: Harry B. Weber (v. 1-8), George J. Gutsche (v. 9),
    Publication Date: 1977
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PG2940.M6
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods

  • Title: Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Fiction: A Checklist of Fiction in U.S. Pulp Magazines, 1915-1974
    Author: Michael L. Cook and Stephen T. Miller
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PS374.D4C66 1988 v. 1 and v. 2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Bibliography, two volumes.

  • Title: Nationalism in the Balkans: An Annotated Bibliography
    Author: Gale Stokes
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DR37.N257 1984
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Inclues index.

  • Title: Nuclear Nightmare
    Author: WTMJ-TV/United Learning
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: BF723.W3N83 and BF723.W3N83 guide
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Interviews young people about how they feel about nuclear war, how they manifest those feelings and what they see as their future.

  • Title: Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon
    Author: BBC-TV
    Publication Date: 1982
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: UA929.G7N83
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Western Europe
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Visualizes the effects of a nuclear bomb detonated above St. Paul's Cathedral in London and follows several British couples as they attempt to carry out civil defense recommendations for survival.

  • Title: On The Beach
    Author: CBS/Fox Video
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.O39
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. "Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise."

  • Title: One, Two, Three
    Author: MGM/UA Home Video
    Publication Date: 1990
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.O466 1990
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: "An executive in West Berlin (played by James Cagney) is struggling to sell Coca-Cola to the Russians while trying to prevent his boss from discovering that his daughter has married a communist."

  • Title: Ossie and Ruby: Crown Dick
    Author: WHMM - TV Washington D.C.
    Publication Date: 1/21
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 871
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Film introduced by Ossie and Ruby about the interaction between a Black man and an Asian man who met and became friends in the Korean War. Their relationship changes once they meet again in America.

  • Title: People and the Press: The News From China
    Author: WGBH (Boston, MA)
    Publication Date: 1/1/
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 2725
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: with Louis Lyons (moderator), Theodore H. White, John K. Fairbank;

  • Title: Pickup on South Street
    Author: CBS Fox Video
    Publication Date: 1991
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.P49935 1991
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. "Skip McCoy, a thief with a long record, pickpockets a street-smart beauty named Candy who is carrying a secret microfilm for a gang of communist spies. When a local stoolie identifies Skip as the thief, he becomes a wanted man by the police, the spies, and the girl."

  • Title: Popular Culture in the Fifties
    Author: Frank A. Salamone
    Publication Date: 2001
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E169.12 .S233 2001
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Chapters: Everyday America; World of Youth; Food; Travel and Transporation; Advertising; Fashion; Fads, Games, Toys, and Sports; Literature; Visual Arts; Architecture; Music; Performing Arts; Television. Appendix- Prices of Selected Items in the 1950s.

  • Title: Post-War Era: Film Noir and the Hollywood Ten
    Author: Time-Life Video
    Publication Date: 1996
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1993.5.U6L48 pt. 3
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Discusses films that reflected the cynicism and concerns of the postwar era by exploring themes such as crime, prejudice, mental illness, alcoholism, and drugs. Examines the effects of the Cold War and McCarthyism on the entertainment industry, including the arrest of the Hollywood Ten by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Narrated by Henry Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, and Liza Minnelli.

  • Title: Post-War Hopes, Cold-War Fears
    Author: PBS
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E741.W35 no. 12
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Describes life in America after World War II, a time of rash optimism and neuroses. While the dollar was strong and everyday life improved, the 1950s also saw the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the loss of China to Communism, the Korean War and the Red Scare.

  • Title: Radio and TV in the Soviet Union
    Author: NAEB
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 9-4
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Radio and TV in the Soviet Union

  • Title: Red Dawn
    Author: MGM/UA Home Video
    Publication Date: 1982
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.R346 1984
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: When a town is invaded by Soviet forces a group of high school students escape and wage warfare in defense of their parents, their friends, and their country.

  • Title: Reunification of Germany
    Author: Churchill Films
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DD257.25.R48 1992
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: After more than forty years of divided rule, the people of East and West Germany were reunited in 1989. In this film, young people from both countries talk about their societies under communist and democratic systems, and the demonstrations that reunited them

  • Title: Revolution in Eastern Europe
    Author: Churchill Films
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DJK51.R48 1992
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: In 1989, the people of Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland triumphed over their imposed governments. Here are young people speaking openly about their troubled past and hopes for a more prosperous future.

  • Title: Road to Happiness (Doroga k schact'iu).
    Author: MPI Home Video
    Publication Date: 1990
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK246.D67 1990
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Russian film "made in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. This ambitious film documents the history of the USSR for those 60 years, emphasizing progress and the success of the communist system. A crash- course in 20th-century Russian history, from a very Soviet point of view."

  • Title: Russia Revisited
    Author: WSUI, University of Iowa
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 10
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Russia Revisited: An informal talk by John Scott - assistant to the publisher of Time, Life and Fortune, recounting his recent trip to the Soviet Union. First of two parts

  • Title: Russia Revisited
    Author: WSUI, University of Iowa
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 10
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Russia Revisited: An informal talk by John Scott - assistant to the publisher of Time, Life and Fortune, recounting his recent trip to the Soviet Union. First of two parts. Conclusion

  • Title: Russian and Soviet Education, 1731-1989: A Multilingual Annotated Bibliography
    Author: William W. Brickman and John T. Zepper.
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LA831.B75 1992
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Includes indexes.

  • Title: Sensational Seventies
    Author: Cinema Guild
    Publication Date: 1993
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E839.S2246 1993 pt. 1-10
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Examines major world events for each year, 1970 through 1979

  • Title: Sensational Seventies
    Author: Cinema Guild
    Publication Date: 1993
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E839.S2246 1993 pt. 1-10
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Examines major world events for each year, 1970 through 1979

  • Title: Seven Days in May
    Author: Warner Home Video
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.S3382 1998
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Originally issued as a motion picture in 1964. "An American general's aide discovers that his boss intends a military takeover of the US government because he considers the President's pacifism and a recent nuclear armament treaty traitorous."

  • Title: Sightseeing in the Soviet Union
    Author: NAEB
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 9-2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Sightseeing and travel.

  • Title: Spy Fiction: A Connoisseur's Guide
    Author: Donald McCormick and Katy Fletcher
    Publication Date: 1990
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN3348.S66M3 1990
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Bio-bibliography.

  • Title: Story of Education: Education in Russia
    Author: KOAC, Carroll Atkinson
    Publication Date: 1965
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Series of talks tracing the evolution of education. This Program: Evolution of Education in Russia

  • Title: Struggles for Poland: In This Life
    Author: WNET New York, DNA Poland Ltd.
    Publication Date: 3/31
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 1006
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Analysis of how Polish patriotism is imbedded in Catholicism and placed in a collective consciousness of national martyrdom and suffering. How Catholicism shapes the ethics and lifestyle of the Polish citizens. Dated 1900-1979.

  • Title: Taste of Freedom
    Author: Video Project
    Publication Date: 1990
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK287.T37 1990
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Covers six weeks of the lives of Sasha Politikovsky, a prominent TV journalist, and his family. While on assignment, Politikovsky visits Azerbaijan, Belarus and towns near Chernobyl, as glasnost and perestroika lift the lid of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union.

  • Title: Testament
    Author: Paramount Home Video
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.T3978
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: A story about how one family attempts to cope after the unthinkable happens - nuclear war.

  • Title: Threads
    Author: World Video
    Publication Date: 1985
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.T468
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Western Europe
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: BBC-TV production. "A dramatization of the possible environmental, physical, and psychological consequences of a nuclear attack on England. The story centers on the lives of two young people and their families in Sheffield, England, during the events leading up to the attack and for thirteen years afterward."

  • Title: Topaz
    Author: MGM/UA Home Video
    Publication Date: 1987
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.T5976 1987 pt. 1 and pt. 2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Alfred Hitchock film. "An American CIA agent enlists the help of a French agent to break up a Russian spy ring." Takes place during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  • Title: Travel in the Soviet Union
    Author: NAEB
    Publication Date: 1959
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 59-Sp. 9-1
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Travel in the Soviet Union

  • Title: Twilight Zone, Vol. 2, Episode 8: Time Enough at Last
    Author: CBS Video
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1992.7.T854 1998 vol. 2
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1950s
    Description: Episode from the classic TV series, originally broadcast November 20, 1959. "Burgess Meredith plays a bank teller and avid reader who is the lone survivor of an H-Bomb attack and finally finds the time to read." Great ironic ending.

  • Title: Twilight Zone, Vol. 4, Episode 66: Two
    Author: CBS Video
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1992.77.T856 1998 vol. 4
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: Originally broadcast September 15, 1961. "A contemporary Adam and Eve story, the two lone, frightened survivors of a nuclear holocaust must start the world anew."

  • Title: Ugly American
    Author: MCA Home Video
    Publication Date: 1987
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.U46 1987
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Marlon Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.

  • Title: Video from Russia: The People Speak
    Publication Date: 1984
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 1034
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Unrehearsed person on the street interviews with the citizens of Russia, commenting on various aspects of Russian lifestyles, dreams, people, and activities.

  • Title: Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films
    Author: Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DS557.73.H55 1998
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Each entry includes historical background and bibliographies.

  • Title: War Games
    Author: MGM/UA Home Video
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.W37
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1980s
    Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. "Young electronic wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation."

  • Title: WRC Holiday Messages from Home
    Author: WRC Radio
    Publication Date: au r
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 1761
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1960s
    Description: WRC Holiday Messages from Home. Public service. Messages from Washington, D.C., area radio listeners to friends and relatives in the armed forces serving in Vietnam War. No exact date, but did air in December 1969. Messages recorded by Paul Anthony of WRC.

  • Title: You Can't Get There From Here: Ephemeral Films, 1946-1960
    Author: Voyager Co.
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: HF5844.Y68 1988
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
    Description: Clips from 19 rarely seen motion pictures, leftovers from the golden age of American consumerism.


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