| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Policing cinema -- 2. Scandalous cinema, 1906/1907 -- 3. Reforming cinema, 1907/1909 -- 4. Fighting films, 1909/1912 -- 4. Judging cinema, 1913/1914. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Censorship -- United States -- History.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Censorship.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Motion pictures -- Censorship.
(OCoLC)fst01027303
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Filmkeuring.
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Censuur.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grieveson, Lee, 1969- Policing cinema. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520239652 0520239660 (DLC) 2003016038 (OCoLC)52721169 |
| ISBN |
9780520937420 (electronic bk.) |
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0520937422 (electronic bk.) |
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1597348139 (electronic bk.) |
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9781597348133 (electronic bk.) |
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