Ooten, Melissa.

Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - New Studies in Southern History Series . - New Studies in Southern History Series .

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Movie Censorship and Virginia -- 2 The Project of Censorship -- 3 Censorship in Black and White -- 4 The Cultural Politics of Race and the Cold War -- 5 The Search for Sexual Deviance -- 6 Conclusion -- Postscript -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliographic Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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 century.

9780739190302


Motion pictures--Censorship--Virginia--History.
Race in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.63.V57O58

363.31/09755