Freedom of the Screen
Subtitle: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780813124513
Subjects: Films, cinema; 20th century; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Media & the Law; Censorship; History; Law and legislation; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; United States
Description: Freedom of the Screen examines the challenges to governmental film censorship, both state and municipal, in the context of the concurrent censoring of the Hollywood Production Code. While many books have studied Hollywood's self-regulation under the Production Code Administration, Freedom of the Screen is the only book to examine governmental film censor boards (which existed in various locations between 1911 and 1981) and the film distributors who challenged them in court.