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"Why does oppression by censorship affect the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media? Silencing Cinema brings together the key issues and authors to examine instances of film censorship throughout the world. Including essays by some of today's leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia/Soviet...

"'Banned in the USA' is a unique account of the ways in which British films released in America had to undergo an unprecedented form of self-censorship in order to meet the requirements of the US Production Code." "Anthony Slide tells here for the first time the inside story of this on-going dialogue between the British film-making industry and the American censors, making full use of the Production Code Administration's recently opened files. Film-by-film,...

From the Publisher: At the heart of any history of controversial films is a strange paradox: while films, especially popular and mainstream films, are often portrayed as meaningless products of popular culture, those popular films involved in public controversies become the focal point of enormous cultural energy, political attention, and profoundly conflicting sets of principles. The ongoing culture wars continue to shape the American political landscape,...

A history of censorship in America, with particular reference to films such as 'The birth of a Nation' (D.W. Griffith), The Exorcist, I am curious, Yellow, 'Last Tango in Paris' (Marlon Brando, Bernardo Bertolucci), Ecstasy (Exstase, Hedy Lamarr).

"Hollywood Censored examines how hundreds of films - Mae West comedies, serious dramas, and films with a social message - were censored and often edited to promote a conservative political agenda during the golden era of studio production in the 1930s. After a series of sex scandals rocked the movie industry in 1922, the Hollywood moguls hired Will Hays to clean the image of movies. As movie "czar," Hays tried a variety of ways to regulate films before...

India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers...

How politics, propaganda, and profits sparked the drama, imagery, and fantasy of 1940s film--and marched America off to fight World War II. The authors examine how one of America's largest and most lucrative industries was enlisted as an enthusiastic recruiter for Uncle Sam to create scores of "entertainment" pictures in which blatant morale-building propaganda messages received top billing. Revealed is the powerful role of FDR's Office of War Information,...