Nora Sayre

Nora Clemens Sayre (September 20, 1932 – August 8, 2001) was an American film critic, journalist, and cultural historian. In the 1960s, she was U.S. correspondent for the New Statesman magazine. In the 1970s, she reviewed films for The New York Times. As a historian, she studied the effects of the Cold War on American culture. She authored several books, including Running Time: Films of the Cold War (1982), in which she focused on Hollywood moviemaking in the 1950s. Her first book, Sixties Going on Seventies (1973), was a National Book Award nominee.