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Johns Hopkins University Press
Assuming that wasn't /s Here are some good sources. I'm sure a google search will also give you some good stuff
Comic book nation
A Complete History of American Comic Books
The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture
Not sure why I put so much time into this. Mainly because I studied this subject for a bit and knew of a few good books/reads/watches. Figured I'd be a good guy and donate some time to this topic, hopefully reddit gains from it. Some of the book ratings are rather low, but that is mainly because the people who review this stuff on Amazon have no idea wtf they are talking about. There are movies down at the end, but eh, I recommend the readings beyond the movies, but the movies are fucking great as well:
Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era, Elaine Tyler May:
http://www.amazon.com/Homeward-Bound-American-Families-Cold/dp/0465030556
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Lizabeth Cohen:
http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Republic-Politics-Consumption-Postwar/dp/0375707379/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324631708&sr=1-1
A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954: Michael J. Hogan:
http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Iron-National-Security-1945-1954/dp/0521795370/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324631733&sr=1-8
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Penny M. Von Eschen:
http://www.amazon.com/Satchmo-Blows-Up-World-Ambassadors/dp/0674015010
Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents, Ellen Schrecker:
http://www.amazon.com/Age-McCarthyism-Brief-History-Documents/dp/0312393199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324632473&sr=1-1
"Here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture, Reinhold Wagnietner:
http://www.amazon.com/Here-There-Everywhere-Politics-American/dp/1584650354
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Paul Boyer:
http://www.amazon.com/Bombs-Early-Light-American-Thought/dp/0807844802
God's Country: America in the 50's, Ronald Oakley:
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Country-Ronald-J-Oakley/dp/0942637240
Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, Brandford Wright:
http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Nation-Transformation-Culture/dp/0801874505
The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s, Richard Pells: http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Conservative-Age-Intellectuals/dp/0819562254
The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974, Arthur Marwick:
http://www.amazon.com/Sixties-Cultural-Revolution-Britain-c-1958-c-1974/dp/019210022X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324633925&sr=8-1
The Ugly American, Burdick: http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-American-Eugene-Burdick/dp/0393318672
1968: The World Transformed, Carole Fink: http://www.amazon.com/1968-Transformed-Publications-Historical-Institute/dp/0521646375
The Origins of the Cold War, McMahon: http://edu.cengage.co.uk/catalogue/product.aspx?isbn=0395904307
Rebel Without a Cause: Beth Bailey: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22800810/Rebel-Without-a-Cause
The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties: Voices of Reaction, Protest, and Permeation
Arthur Marwick: http://www.jstor.org/pss/40109676
Coca-Cola and the Cold War: The French Face Americanization, 1948-1953, Richard F. Kuisel: http://www.jstor.org/stable/286280
The One Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/64onedim/odmcontents.html
I've read so many good articles from JSTOR, but as a non-student you'll have to pay for them, just as you'd have to pay for the books above. But yea JSTOR is rich in Cold War studies. I would say first check out the books there.
Unrelated but creates a good mindset for the cold war:
Rise of the Rich, Peter Gran, http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Rich-Modern-World-History/dp/0815631715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324635338&sr=8-1
A few movies besides Atomic Cafe and Stangelove:
The Wild One,
Rebels without a Cause,
One Two Three,
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (Mad Men fans will love this one),
On the Beach (1959, fuck the remake: ps read the book)
oh...and...
Mad Men
Enjoy