| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Progressivism and the new medium of film -- Kansas and the fight over motion picture censorship --"We can hardly make any definite rules" : the difficulty of censorship as practice, 1915 -- The birth of a nation and Kansas -- The battle lines are drawn, 1916-1917 -- World War I and the struggle against sin, 1917-1919 -- The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1927 -- The challenge of sound, 1928-1934 -- An age of maturity? 1934-1948 -- The moon is blue over Kansas, 1948-1954 -- Jane Russell, Brigitte Bardot, and Ephraim London as the enemy, 1954-1959 -- The final years of film censorship, 1960-1966 |
| Summary |
"This first book-length study of state film censorship examines the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas, taking a look at why censorship legislation was enacted, what the attitudes of Kansans were toward censorship, and why it lasted for half a century"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-334) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Censorship -- Kansas -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Censorship.
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Motion pictures -- Censorship
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Kansas
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007009401 |
| ISBN |
9780826266033 |
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0826266037 |
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