Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965 / Melissa Ooten.
This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. Ooten uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that structured Virginia in the mid-twentieth cent...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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| Series: | New studies in Southern history.
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Table of Contents:
- Movie censorship and Virginia: an introduction
- The project of censorship: debating the movies in 1920s Virginia
- Censorship in black and white: the struggle to maintain racial hierarchies at the movies, 1920s-1930s
- The cultural politics of race and the Cold War
- The search for sexual deviance: regulating and contesting depictions of female sexuality on-screen
- Conclusion: Island in the sun and the demise of the censorship board
- Postcript: Regulating film in the age of the internet
- Appendix A: Board of Motion picture Censorship members
- Appendix B: Elimination records.