Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965 /

This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. Ooten uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that structured Virginia in the mid-twentieth cent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ooten, Melissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Colección:New studies in Southern history.
Temas:
Motion pictures > Censorship > Virginia > History.
Race in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Censure > Virginie > Histoire.
Race au cinéma.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Motion pictures > Censorship
Race in motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures
Virginia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Movie censorship and Virginia: an introduction
  • The project of censorship: debating the movies in 1920s Virginia
  • Censorship in black and white: the struggle to maintain racial hierarchies at the movies, 1920s-1930s
  • The cultural politics of race and the Cold War
  • The search for sexual deviance: regulating and contesting depictions of female sexuality on-screen
  • Conclusion: Island in the sun and the demise of the censorship board
  • Postcript: Regulating film in the age of the internet
  • Appendix A: Board of Motion picture Censorship members
  • Appendix B: Elimination records.

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