Ooten, Melissa,

Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965 / by Melissa Ooten. - 1 online resource (221 pages). - New studies in Southern history . - New studies in Southern history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780739190302 (e-book)


Motion pictures--Censorship--History.--Virginia
Race in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.63.V57 / O58 2015eb

363.31/09755