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Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America /
"As movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.