Pam, There's a pretty good article in the Nov. 1993 Harper's by Debra Seagal titled "Tales From the Cutting-Room Floor: The Reality of "Reality-Based" Television." The article is an autobiographical account of Seagal's work as a "logger" on "The American Detective" series but has some great insights, event though it's not "scholarly." Peter Biskind has a good chpt. on science fiction, the cold war and the fifties in his book from the mid-80's titled "Seeing is Believing." Larry Hartsfield