Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Je...
Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Je...
Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Jennifer Fronc.
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
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G 2020/0445
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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...
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Publisher
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
Texas
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"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 governmental regulation of film conceded that some entit...
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Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America / Jennifer Fronc.
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Fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
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G 2020/0445
Record Identifier
74VKaZLz8AeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZLz8AeX
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ISBN
9781477313794 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1477313796 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781477313930 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1477313931 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
DDC
363.310973
MMS ID
991024291015802626
