Charles, First of all thank you for this wonderful quote from the movie "The Wild One". Although I'm writing my doctoral research on 'media films', films that take television and the Internet as their central topics, I wasn't familiar with this movie. As to your question about the "Media Panic" phenomenon I would like to recommend some great books and papers dealing with this subject. Unfortunately very little has been written about this subject.** *Books:* Starker, S. (1989). *Evil influences: Crusades against the mass media*. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Stokes, J. C. (1999). *On screen rivals: Cinema and television in the United States and Britain*. New-York: St. Martin's Press. Young, P. (2006). *The cinema dreams its rivals: Media fantasy films from radio to the internet*. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press. *Papers:* Drotner, K. (1992). "Modernity and media panics". In M. Skovmand & К. С Schroder (Eds.) *Media cultures: Reappraising transnational media*. London: Routledge. Drotner, K. (1999). Dangerous Media? Panic Discourses and Dilemmas of Modernity. *Paedagogica Historica*, *35*(3), 593-619. Springhall, J. (1998). *Youth, popular culture and moral panics: Penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996**. *New York: St. Martin's Press.* * Drotner writes: "From the advent of mass-circulation fiction and magazines to film and television, comics and cartoons, the introduction of a new mass medium causes strong public reactions whose repetitiveness is as predictable as the fervor with which they are brought forward. Adult experts [...] define the new mass medium as a social, psychological, or moral threat to the young and appoint themselves as public trouble shooters. Legal and educational measures are then imposed, and the interest lessens- until the advent of a new mass medium reopens public discussion. That spiraling motion characterizes a *media panic* [...] In media panics, the mass media are both the source and the medium of public reaction" (Drotner, 1992, pp.43-44). My analysis focuses on 115 films from the last 20 years but since you are writing about the fifties I would recommend some early films that were made in the fifties and even earlier that show this rivalry between cinema and TV: *Murder by Television*- Clifford Sanforth, 1935 *Meet Mr. Lucifer*- Anthony Pelissier, 1953 *A King in New-York* - Charles Chaplin, 1957 *A Face in the Crowd*- Elia Kazan, 1957 All the best, Noam Feinholtz Noam Feinholtz . Ph.D. candidate - The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. (sites.google.com/site/smarthuji/noam-fainholtz-1)