Reference Collection

994 AUS Australia though time: 126 years of Australian history. 1994. 2nd ed. Random House. Sydney.

994.003 AUS The Australian encyclopedia. 1988. 5th ed. Australian Geographic Society. Terrys Hill NSW.

994 AUS Australians. 1987. Fairfax Syme & Weldon. Broadway. NSW.

909.82 CHR Ross, John, ed. 1999, Chronicle of the 20th century, Ringwood, Vic.:Viking

Non-Fiction Collection

The more detailed resources for this topic are in print form so use the Library Catalogue to guide you to these.

Use the Library Catalogue to find subject headings that will lead you to useful information. Remember you are looking for material that gives you an accurate picture of the Australian world at that time. Some of the more general material on the world in the 1950s and 1960s may also be useful to gain perceptions on the general influences of these times.

Subject Words Search
A search under Subject Words will search possible subject headings for the topic: Suggested headings are:
Australia – History – 1945 – 1965
Australia – History – 20th century
Australia – History – Sources – 1945 – 1965
Australia – Social life and customs – 1945 – 1965
Motion picture industry – Australia
Motion picture industry – Australia - History
Music, Australian
Olympic Games (1956: Melbourne)
Television - Australia - History
Theatre - Australia

General Words Search
A keyword search in General Words (Title & Contents) will search for specific terms such as proper names or key terms: Sugested headings are:
Sixties
Fifties
Australia 1950s
Australia 1960s

The search can be narrowed by entering more words.

Other possible headings are the names of people or events:
Barry Humphries
Johnny O'Keefe
Melbourne Olympic Games

Entering the additional keyword videorecording or dvd will narrow the search to those formats.

Remember to cite your resources correctly in your bibliography and use the History guide for bibliographic presentation for this. N.B. You are also required to evaluate two of your resources (one print and one electronic source) and submit these evaluations. Use this evaluation guide to assist you.

General

A look at life in the sixties, Grant, R.G., 909.827 GRA

Dreams for sale : popular culture in the 20th century, Maltby, Richard, 909.82 DRE

Growing up in the fifties, Terry Jordan, 941.0855 JOR

NME rock'n'roll decades : the sixties, Heslam, David, 781.66 NME

Nostalgia: spotlight on the fifties, Anglo, Michael, 909.825 ANG

Rock through history : understanding the modern world through rock and roll 1950s to 1980s, Howitt, Bernie, 781.6609 HOW

The fifties, Stacy, Tom, 909.825 STA

The second wave : British drama of the sixties, Taylor, John Russell, 822.914 TAY

The sixties, Grey, Edward, 909.826 GRE

The young meteors, Aitken, Jonathan, 941.0856 AIT

Truth, dare or promise : girls growing up in the fifties, Heron, Liz, 305.420941 TRU

Windows on the sixties : exploring key texts of media and culture, Aldgate, Anthony, 909.826 WIN

Australian

Discovering a national identity, Gard, Stephen, 994.05 GAR

Famous news pages in modern Australian history, Cannon, Michael, 079.94 CAN (Stack)

Flashbacks, Humphries, Barry, text written by Roger McDonald, 994.05 MCD

Hippie hippie shake : The dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups ... The Sixties, Neville, Richard, 306.09046 NEV

Images of our time : 30 years of new photography, Usher, Rod, 070.49 USH

Imagining the fifties : private sentiment and political culture in Menzies' Australia. Murphy, John, 994.05 MUR

Mondo weirdo : Australia in the sixties, Cockington, James, 994.05 COC

Seizures of youth : the sixties and Australia, Gerster, Robin, 994.05 GER

The '50s : why they wern't so bad, Hall, James ed., 994.05 AUS

The 1950s, Lees, Stella and June Senyard, 994.05 LEE

The Australian dream : design of the fifties, O'Callaghan, Judith, 745.44994 AUS

The forgotten fifties : aspects of Australian society and culture in the 1950s, Murphy,John, 994.05 FOR

The Menzies era and after 1949-1970, Whitington, Don, 994.05 WHI

The Menzies era, 1949-1966, Johnston, Marjorie, 994.05 JOH

The not so fabulous fifties : images of a migrant childhood, Kraus, Paul, 994.05 KRA

Videos
1951 [videorecording], 994.05 NIN

1953 [videorecording], 994.05 NIN

1954 [videorecording], 994.05 NIN

1955 [videorecording], 994.05 NIN

1956 [videorecording], 994.05 NIN

Flashbacks [videorecording], Humphries, Barry, 994.05 HUM

Glenn A. Baker's magic carpet ride. Volume 1. Sixties groups [videorecording], Baker, Glen A., 781.660904 GLE

Journal articles
"Fifties fever", Litson, Jo, The Bulletin, 1998

"Food as nostalgia: eating the fifties and sixties", Duruz, Jean, Australian Historical Studies, 1999

" The bad and the beautiful: a chronicle of Hollywood in the fifties", by Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair: review, J.G.Ballard, New Statesman and Society, 2002

"The fifties were radical too: how the counter-culture had its roots in the Eisenhower Age", Morris Dickstein, The Times Literary Supplement, 2001

Websites

• Remember copyright - The following sites allow students to copy their images for educational purposes but the source of the image must be fully and correctly acknowledged
• Record source details for bibliography

Picture Australia @ http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Use the Advanced search option, narrow the date to 1950s or 1960s, and use keywords for images.

National Archives of Australia http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/PhotoSearchStartup.asp
Follow the Search link, remember to narrow search by 1950s or 1960s
For ideas on keywords, use the Browse subjects link.

State Library of Victoria – Search the Pictures catalogue

Internet movie database http://www.imdb.com
You can search for specific movies and actors in this database. Biographical information and plot summaries. Some actor head shots.

Screensound Australia http://www.screensound.gov.au
The National screen and sound archive. Again, to search for specific actors and films