Race, gender, and film censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965 /

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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Main Author: Ooten, Melissa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
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.