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Author Biesen, Sheri Chinen, 1962- author.

Title Film censorship : Regulating America's screen / Sheri Chinen Biesen
Published London : Wallflower Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Short cuts: introductions to film studies ; 67
Short cuts (London, England) ; 67.
Contents Pre-Code era -- Enforcing the motion picture production code -- Post-war developments -- Pushing the envelope: the demise of the Code censorship -- Epilogue: The post-PCA legacy of censorship
Summary This concise overview provides a survey from the "pre-Code" years and classic "golden age" to contemporary Hollywood censorship. It draws extensively on primary archival research to unveil the fascinating behind-the-scenes history of film censorship, exploring how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing cultural and industrial landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index
Subject Motion pictures -- Censorship -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Motion pictures -- Censorship
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231851138
9780231851138