Sheri Chinen Biesen

Film Censorship

Regulating America's Screen

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Produktbeschreibung

Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. Sheri Chinen Biesen unveils the behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explore how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing cultural and industrial landscape.

Produktdetails

• Short Cuts
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 158mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780231183130
• ISBN-10: 0231183135
• Artikelnr.: 50641588

Autorenporträt

Sheri Chinen Biesen is a Professor of Film History at Rowan University. She is the author of Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films (2014) and Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Pre-Code Era
2. Enforcing the Motion Picture Production Code
3. Post-war Developments
4. Pushing the Envelope: The Demise of Code Censorship
Epilogue: The Post-PCA Legacy of Censorship
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index