Policing cinema
Subtitle: movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America
By: Lee Grieveson.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Censorship -- United States -- History.
Description: Grieveson examines censorship & regulation of motion pictures in America during the early years of the silent screen. He shows how the public & the authorities responded to scandalous & controversial productions, such as 'Birth of a Nation'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Policing cinema; title: 2. Scandalous cinema, 1906/1907; title: 3. Reforming cinema, 1907/1909; title: 4. Fighting films, 1909/1912; title: 4. Judging cinema, 1913/1914.