Monitoring the Movies : The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America.
- 1st ed.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Origins ofthe Anticensorship Movement -- Chapter 1. The Lesser of Two Evils: Debating Motion Picture Censorship, 1907-1912 -- Chapter 2. "Critical and Constructive": The National Board's "Standards" and City Plan for Voluntary Motion Picture Review, 1912-1916 -- Chapter 3. "An Historical Presentation": The Birth of a Nation and the City Plan, 1909-1917 -- Chapter 4. "Is Any Girl Safe?" White Slave Traffic Films and the Geography of Censorship, 1914-1917 -- Chapter 5. "Whether You Like Pictures or Not": The General Federation of Women's Clubs and State Censorship Legislation, 1916-1920 -- Chapter 6. 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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