Policing cinema : movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America /
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 br...
| Основен автор: | Grieveson, Lee, 1969- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2004.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119338 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Policing cinema. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520937420 0520937422 1597348139 9781597348133 |