Barone, Dennis. "Klaatu was No Angel: A Historical-Contextual Analysis of The Day the Earth Stood Still." Studies in the Humanities, 23:2, Dec 1996, pp: 202-211.
Boyer, Paul. by the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Evans, Joyce A. Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
Hendershot, Cyndy. Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950's Science Fiction Films. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press, 1999.
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Lucanio, Patrick. Them or Us: Archetypal Interpretations of Fifties Alien Invasion Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Perrine, Tony A. Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety. New York: Garland, 1998.
Shapiro, Benjamin. "Universal Truths: Cultural Myths and Generic Adaptation in 1950s Science Fiction Films." Journal of Popular Film and Television, 18:3 (Fall, 1990):103.
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A resource for horror and science fiction films. This site contains many interviews and critic reviews.
Fifties: Alien Invasion and Creature Features
This page lists a bibliography and web links for several science fiction films of the 1950's.
An article from American Cinematographer details the metaphor for the Cold War in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
Mapping Post-War Anxieties onto Space
An article by Michael Hardin explores 1950's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Invaders from Mars" in its socio-political context of the 1950's.
The Unofficial Forbidden Planet Page
This site is devoted to the "Forbidden Planet" with images, sound clips, and links to other resources.
This is another fan site that features images and links to sites about "Invaders from Mars."