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Alleva, Richard. "Civil Courage." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Commonweal 132.20 (2005): 20.

Appleton Public Library Reference Staff. "Biography: Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)." Appleton History 21 Apr. 2003. Appleton Public Library. http://www.apl.org/history/mccarthy/biography.html

The Army-McCarthy Hearings. C-SPAN. http://www.c-span.org/special/mccarthy.asp

Atkinson, Michael. "Smoke and Mirrors." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Village Voice 5 Oct. 2005: C56.

Aucoin, Don. "Remembering One of Journalism's Finest Moments." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Nieman Reports 59.4 (2005): 115.

Baar, K. Kevyne. "What has my Union Done for Me?: The Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Actors' Equity Association Respond to McCarthy-Era Blacklisting ." Film History 20.4 (2008): 437-55.

Bayles, Martha. "Ed vs. Joe vs. CBS." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Weekly Standard 11.7 (2005): 41.

Bayley, Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the Press. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1981.

Beck, Bernard. "Inspired by a True Story: Good Night, and Good Luck and Why We Need It." Multicultural Perspectives 8.3 (2006): 26-29.

Berardinelli, James. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Reelviews. Accessed 27 Feb. 2009. http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=937

Briley, Ron. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Journal of American History 93.3 (2006): 985.

Bryson, Lyman, and Edward R. Murrow. "You and Television." Hollywood Quarterly 4.2 (1949): 178-81.

Carroll, Rebecca. "David Strathairn." Independent: A Magazine For Video And Filmmakers 28.9 (2005): 28-31.

Chamberlin, Carloss James. "The Kinescope as Mirror: George Clooney Slyly Bites the Hand That Feeds Him." Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema 40 (2006): (no pagination).

Cloud, Stanley. "The Murrow Boys: Broadcasting for the Mind's Eye." Defining Moments in Journalism (1998): 3-6.

Cole, Jonathan R. "Academic Freedom Under Fire." Daedalus 134.2 (2005): 5-17.

Complete Murrow Speech from Good Night, and Good Luck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfwsfGqgPM

Cox, Michael. "Film Readings - Good Night, and Good Luck." Millennium 35.2 (2006): 435-37.

Daynes, Gary. Making Villains, Making Heroes: Joseph R. McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Politics of American Memory. New York: Taylor & Francis, 1997.

Denby, David. "Getting the Story; The Current Cinema." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New Yorker 81.31 (2005): 94.

Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Doherty, Thomas. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Cineaste 31.1 (2005): 53.

Ebert, Roger. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Rogerebert.com Movie Reviews/Chicago Sun Times. Accessed 27 Feb. 2009. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/REVIEWS/51005004/1023

Eddlem, Thomas R. "Good Luck Finding the Truth Here." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New American 21.22 (2005): 34.

Edelman, Rob. "George Clooney." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Ca-Co/Clooney-George.html

Edward R. Murrow -- Army/McCarthy Hearings -- March 9, 1954. http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml

The Edward R. Murrow Collection. New York: Docurama, Distributed by New Video, 2005.

Evans, M. Stanton. Blacklisted By History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies. New York: Crown Forum, 2007.

Faucette, Brian. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night And Good Luck: George Clooney On U.S. Television, History, And Politics." Jump Cut: A Review Of Contemporary Media 50 (2008).

Fine, Gary Alan. "'See it Now' in Lurid Black and White." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Contexts Summer 2006: Culture Reviews.

French, Philip. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Guardian.co.uk/The Observer. Accessed 27 Feb. 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/feb/19/philipfrench

Fried, Albert. McCarthyism, The Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Friendly, Fred W. Due to circumstances beyond our control .... New York: Random House, 1967.

Fuller, Graham. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Sight and Sound 16.3 (2006): 14-16.

Gleiberman, Owen. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Entertainment Weekly 14 Oct. 2005: 118.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNq8LoYjG2E

Herman, Arthur. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. New York: Free Press, 2000.

Hoberman, J. "See it Again." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. American Prospect 16.10 (2005): 41.

Hochscherf, Tobias, and Christoph Laucht. "Controversial Films. Good Night, and Good Luck." Film and History. http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/controversial_films/films/goodNightGoodLuck.php

Hollywood on Trial. MPI Home Video, 1989.

Hunter, Stephen. ‘“Good Night”: A Grey Era in Stark Black and White.” Washington Post 7 October 2005. C01.

The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture http://www.ijpc.org/

Jaafar, Ali. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: Interview." Sight and Sound 16.3 (2006): 14-20.

Kauffmann, Stanley. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New Republic (Oct. 2005): 24.

Kellner, Douglas. "Bushspeak and the Politics of Lying: Presidential Rhetoric in the 'War on Terror.'" Presidential Studies Quarterly 37.4 (2007): 622-45.

Kemp, Philip. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Sight and Sound 16.3 (2006): 58.

Klawans, Stuart. "Lessons of Darkness." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Nation 281.13 (2005): 48.

Krohn, Bill, and Charlotte Garson. "Clooney: Urgences Politiques." Cahiers Du Cinéma 608 (2006): 29.

Lippe, Richard. "Good Night, and Good Luck: History Replays Itself." CineAction 70 (2006): 70-72.

Lopate, Phillip. "The Medium and its Conscience." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Film Comment 41.5 (2005): 30.

Macnab, Geoffrey. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Sight and Sound 15.11 (2005): 26.

McCarthy, Death of a Witch Hunter: A Film of the Era of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Oak Forest: MPI Home Video, 1975 [1986].

McCarthy, Joseph R. "Senator Joseph R. McCarthy: Reply to Edward R. Murrow 'See it Now' (CBS-TV, April 6, 1954)." Media Resources Center: Library of University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/murrowmccarthy2.html

"McCarthy-Welch Exchange." American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

McCarthyism. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

McCormick, Patrick. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. U.S. Catholic 71.1 (2006): 44.

Monetti, Sandro. "George Clooney for President?" Sunday Express 17 Feb. 2008: 62.

Murrow on Freedom of Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3WJXK2PAM

Murrow, Edward R. "Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See it Now." American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/edwardrmurrowtomccarthy.htm

Murrow, Edward R. "See it Now: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy." The Beat Begins: America in the 1950s. HONR269J. http://www.honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/Murrow540309.html [Archived]

Nitzsche, Sina. "'The Tube Is Flickering Now': Aesthetics Of Authenticity in Good Night, And Good Luck." COPAS: Current Objectives Of Postgraduate American Studies 8 (2007).

O'Brien, Michael. "The Anti-McCarthy Campaign in Wisconsin, 1951-1952." Wisconsin Magazine of History 56.2 (1972-1973): 91-108.

O'Connor, John E. "Murrow Confronts McCarthy: Two Stages of Historical Analysis for Film and Television." Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History with Film. Ed. Alan S. Marcus. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2007. 17-39.

Paye, Jean-Claude. "A Permanent State of Emergency." Monthly Review 58.6 (2006): 29-37.

Peffley, Mark, and Lee Sigelman. "Intolerance of Communists during the McCarthy Era: A General Model." Western Political Quarterly 43.1 (1990): 93-111.

Pfiffner, James P. "The Contemporary Presidency--Constraining Executive Power: George W. Bush and the Constitution." Presidential Studies Quarterly 38.1 (2008): 123-43.

Point of Order. New York: New Yorker Video, 2005.

Reel Journalism: 'Good Night and Good Luck' Part 2 (George Clooney) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVeVEqepwog

Reeves, Thomas C. "The Search for Joe McCarthy." Wisconsin Magazine of History 60.3 (1977): 185-96.

Richter, David H. "Keeping Company in Hollywood: Ethical Issues in Nonfiction Film." Narrative 15.2 (2007): 140-66.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosteck, Thomas. See It Now Confronts McCarthyism: Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1994.

Rosteck, Thomas. "Irony, Argument, and Reportage in Television Documentary: See it Now Versus Senator McCarthy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 9 (Aug. 1989): 277-98.

Rothschild, Nathalie. "Spare us the Hollywood Luvvies with a Conscience." London Times 17 Oct. 2007: 15.

Schoeneman, Thomas J. "The Witch Hunt as a Culture Change Phenomenon." Ethos 3.4 (1975): 529-54.

Schopp, Andrew. "Interrogating the Manipulation of Fear: V For Vendetta, Batman Begins, Good Night, And Good Luck, and America's 'War On Terror'." The War on Terror and American Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009. 259-86.

Schorr, Daniel. "Now You Can See It." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New Leader 88.6 (2005): 5.

Scott, A. O. "News in Black, White and Shades of Gray." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New York Times 23 Sept. 2005: E1.

Segal, Victoria. "Small-Screen Hero." Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New Statesman 19.899 (2006): 48.

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs http://www.gpo.gov/congress/senate/senate12cp107.html

Shafer, Jack. "Good Night, and Good Luck and bad history" (part 1). Slate 5 October 2005. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2005/10/edward_r_movie_2.html

Shafer, Jack. "Good Night, and Good Luck and bad history" (part 2). Slate 5 October 2005. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2005/10/edward_r_movie.html

Shannon, David A. "Was McCarthy a Political Heir of La Follette?" Wisconsin Magazine of History 45.1 (1961): 3-9.

Sheehan, Paul. "Always a Moral to Clooney's Story." Sydney Morning Herald 29 Oct. 2007: 13.

Stockwell, Anne. "Clooney Versus the Far Right." The Advocate 952 (2005): 53-57.

Teachout, Terry. "Journalism, Hollywood Style." Commentary 120.5 (2005): 69-72.

Thelen, David P., and Esther S. Thelen. "Joe Must Go: The Movement to Recall Senator Joseph R. McCarthy." Wisconsin Magazine of History 49.3 (1966): 185-209.

Time Out. London Issue. 15-22 February 2006.

Travers, Peter. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Rolling Stone 8 Sept. 2005: 123.

Tuck, Jim. McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt. Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.

Tucker, Ken. "Where is Edward R. Murrow When We Need Him?" Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. New York Magazine 38.33 (2005): 63.

Turan, Kenneth. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Los Angeles Times 7 Oct. 2005.

Vernon, Wes. "Murrow, McCarthy, and enduring myths." Renew America 6 November 2005. http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/vernon/051106

Ward, Malvin. "Shootout at the Beverly Hills Corral: Edward R. Murrow Versus Hollywood." Journal of Popular Film and Television 19.3 (1991): 138-40.

Wershba, Joseph and Shirley. Papers. Archival material at the University of Texas, Austin.

Wershba, Joseph. Edward R. Murrow and the Time of His Time. http://www.evesmag.com/murrow.htm

Widner, James F. "Edward (Egbert) Roscoe Murrow." Radio Days. 2000. http://www.otr.com/murrow.shtml

Wiebe, G. D. "The Army-McCarthy Hearings and the Public Conscience." Public Opinion Quarterly 22.4 (1958-1959): 490-502.

Wieder, Thomas. "Murrow contre McCarthy." Cahiers Du Cinéma 608 (2006): 30.

Zacharek , Stephanie. Rev. of Good Night, and Good Luck, dir. George Clooney. Salon.com Politics. Accessed 27 Feb. 2009. http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/09/23/good_night_good_luck/index.html?CP=IM&DN=110