Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America /
Fronc, Jennifer, 1974-
Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Jennifer Fronc. - First edition. - viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
Introduction : the origins of the anticensorship movement -- The lesser of two evils : debating motion picture censorship, 1907-1912 -- Critical and constructive : the National Board's standards and city plan for voluntary motion picture review, 1912-1916 -- An historical presentation : the birth of a nation and the city plan, 1909-1917 -- Is any girl safe? White slave traffic films and the geography of censorship, 1914-1917 -- Whether you like pictures or not : the general federation of women's clubs and state censorship legislation, 1916-1920 -- Southern enterprises : building better films committees in the urban south, 1921-1924 -- Conclusion : censorship and the age of self-regulation, 1924-1968 -- Appendix : a partial list of cities cooperating with the National Board of Review, 1918.
9781477313794 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477313930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017012642
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
Motion pictures--Censorship--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Censorship--History--United States--20th century.
PN1995.62 / .F76 2017
363.310973
Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Jennifer Fronc. - First edition. - viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
Introduction : the origins of the anticensorship movement -- The lesser of two evils : debating motion picture censorship, 1907-1912 -- Critical and constructive : the National Board's standards and city plan for voluntary motion picture review, 1912-1916 -- An historical presentation : the birth of a nation and the city plan, 1909-1917 -- Is any girl safe? White slave traffic films and the geography of censorship, 1914-1917 -- Whether you like pictures or not : the general federation of women's clubs and state censorship legislation, 1916-1920 -- Southern enterprises : building better films committees in the urban south, 1921-1924 -- Conclusion : censorship and the age of self-regulation, 1924-1968 -- Appendix : a partial list of cities cooperating with the National Board of Review, 1918.
9781477313794 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477313930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017012642
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
Motion pictures--Censorship--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Censorship--History--United States--20th century.
PN1995.62 / .F76 2017
363.310973