TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fronc,Jennifer
TI  - Monitoring the movies: the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America 
SN  - 9781477313794 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PN1995.62 .F76 2017
U1  - 363.310973 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Censorship
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - 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
ER  -