Typecasting: Analysis of the accuracy of period typography in film.
Also from ms-studio comes an article decrying the Scourge of Arial (as well as how to spot Arial when you wanted Helvetica).
"An icon of the Swiss school of typography, Helvetica swept through the design world in the '60s and became synonymous with modern, progressive, cosmopolitan attitudes... "When in doubt, use Helvetica" was a common rule."