LEADER 04041nam 2200493 450 001 9910795220203321 005 20180919085154.0 010 $a1-4773-1394-X 024 7 $a10.7560/313794 035 $a(CKB)4340000000208824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5105837 035 $a(DE-B1597)586760 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477313947 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000208824 100 $a20171117h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMonitoring the movies $ethe fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America /$fJennifer Fronc 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (213 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-4773-1379-6 311 $a1-4773-1393-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. The Origins of the Anticensorship Movement -- $tChapter 1. The Lesser of Two Evils: Debating Motion Picture Censorship, 1907?1912 -- $tChapter 2 . ?Critical and Constructive?: The National Board?s ?Standards? and City Plan for Voluntary Motion Picture Review, 1912?1916 -- $tChapter 3. ?An Historical Presentation?: The Birth of a Nation and the City Plan, 1909?1917 -- $tChapter 4 . ?Is Any Girl Safe?? White Slave Traffic Films and the Geography of Censorship, 1914?1917 -- $tChapter 5. ?Whether You Like Pictures or Not?: The General Federation of Women?s Clubs and State Censorship Legislation, 1916?1920 -- $tChapter 6. Southern Enterprises: Building Better Films Committees in the Urban South, 1921?1924 -- $tConclusion. Censorship and the Age of Self-Regulation, 1924?1968 -- $tAppendix. A Partial List of Cities Cooperating with the National Board of Review, 1918 -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAs movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the governmental regulation of film conceded that some entity?boards populated by trusted civic leaders, for example?needed to safeguard the public good. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (NB), a civic group founded in New York City in 1909, emerged as a national cultural chaperon well suited to protect this emerging form of expression from state incursions. Using the National Board?s extensive files, Monitoring the Movies offers the first full-length study of the NB and its campaign against motion-picture censorship. Jennifer Fronc traces the NB?s Progressive-era founding in New York; its evolving set of ?standards? for directors, producers, municipal officers, and citizens; its ?city plan,? which called on citizens to report screenings of condemned movies to local officials; and the spread of the NB?s influence into the urban South. Ultimately, Monitoring the Movies shows how Americans grappled with the issues that arose alongside the powerful new medium of film: the extent of the right to produce and consume images and the proper scope of government control over what citizens can see and show. 606 $aMotion pictures$xCensorship$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aCensorship$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMotion pictures$xCensorship$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aCensorship$xHistory 676 $a363.310973 700 $aFronc$b Jennifer$f1974-$01491879 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795220203321 996 $aMonitoring the movies$93713980 997 $aUNINA