Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, UK. He is the founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles, including most recently The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (2012). He is currently editing a collection entitled Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (forthcoming). Julie Hughes teaches at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Nathan Abrams (Birkbeck, University of London) and Julie Hughes (Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham)1. Othering conformity in post-war America: intellectuals, the new middle classes nd the problem of cultural distinctions, Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia)2. 'Don't fight it. You can't whip Mickey Mouse': Disneyland's America 1955-59, Emma Lambert (University of Birmingham)3. Beauty shops and bouffants: the political uses of beauty, style and domestic space, Julie A. Willett (Texas Tech University)4. Zoot suit: breaking the Cold War's dress code, Candida Taylor (Univeristy of Birmingham)5. Mother's Old-Fashioned Gefilte Fish, Nathan Abrams (Birkbeck, University of London)6. 'Not on his wavelength': experiments with radio by John Cage, Ben Andrews7. 'Only one way to fight a toxin': the poison and progress of radioactivity in The Incredible Shrinking Man, Kyle Smith8. Muscular manhood and salacious sleaze: the singular world of the 1950s macho pulps, Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University)9. Containing Batman: rereading Frederic Wertham and the comics of the 1950s, Will Brooker (Richmond, the American International University in London)10. Romance and history: Anya Seton's The Winthrop Woman, Julie Hughes (Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham)Afterword - Considering cultures: how to make sense of our Cold War, Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham)