Fronc, Jennifer,  1974- <br/><br/>
Monitoring the movies :  the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / 
Jennifer Fronc. 
 - First edition. 
 - viii, 202 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781477313794 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477313930 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017012642 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Censorship--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Censorship--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.62  / .F76 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.310973