Timeline 1950s

1952-

• The Queen's coronation is the first defiante event in British television, gaining a larger audience than radio. This is important as people were finally seeing the benefits of television in society, making it a new phonomemon.

1955-

• The Mongomery bus boycotts were sparked in America as Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, being what was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

1957-

• The Ed Gein's murders were made public on trial as he was commited and declared insane. These murders are important in the development of the slasher genre, with films such as 'Psycho', 'Texas Chainsaw Masacre' and 'The Silence of the Lambs' loosely based on them. http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/portland/12/gein.htm#

1958-

• White and Black minstrel show begins. For my study on 'Little Britain' they use sketches of this and ultimately connote representations of how black people were seen by white people.

1947-1991-

• The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. There were real wars, sometimes called "proxy wars" because they were fought by Soviet allies rather than the USSR itself -- along with competition for influence in the Third World, and a major superpower arms race.

1950s- in cinema

A femme fatale is a stock character, usually a villainous woman who uses the malign power of sexuality in order to ensnare the hapless hero. The phrase is French for "deadly woman" or "fatal woman". She is typically portrayed as sexually insatiable. Important for the representations of women in film.