Policing cinema: movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America
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Main Author: Grieveson, Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2004
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index
1. Policing cinema -- 2. Scandalous cinema, 1906/1907 -- 3. Reforming cinema, 1907/1909 -- 4. Fighting films, 1909/1912 -- 4. Judging cinema, 1913/1914
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 348 pages)
ISBN:0520239652
0520239660
0520937422
1282359754
1597348139
9780520239654
9780520239661
9780520937420
9781282359758
9781597348133

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