New Film Censorship Book


Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2018 - order at Amazon BN CUP film-censorship.blogspot.com

Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the ‘pre-Code’ years and classic studio system ‘Golden Age’—in which film censorship thrived—to contemporary Hollywood. From the earliest days of cinema, movies faced controversy over screen images and threats of censorship. This essential volume draws extensively on primary research from motion picture archives to unveil the fascinating behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explore how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing American cultural and industrial landscape. Read more at Film Censorship blog.