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Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Jennifer Fronc.

By: Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781477313794 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781477313930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.310973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.62 .F76 2017
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1995.62 .F76 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001455939

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.

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