It Came From the 1950s is an eclectic, witty and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns,
anxieties and desires of their times. The essaysexplorethe emergence of "Hammer Horror" andthe company's groundbreaking 1958 adaptation of Dracula; the work of popular authors such as
Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the effect that 50s food advertisements had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; the place of special effects in the decade's science fiction films; and
1950s Anglo-American relations as refracted through the prism of the 1957 film Night of the Demon.
