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Policing cinema : movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America /
White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a br...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520937420 0520937422 1597348139 9781597348133 141754516X 9781417545162 9786612359750 6612359757 |