Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965 / by Melissa Ooten.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New studies in Southern historyPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739190302 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965.DDC classification:
  • 363.31/09755 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.63.V57 O58 2015eb
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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.
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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.

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