Policing cinema [[electronic resource] ] : movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America / / Lee Grieveson
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| Autore: |
Grieveson Lee <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Policing cinema [[electronic resource] ] : movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America / / Lee Grieveson
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.31/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Censorship - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato: | african americans |
| american cinema | |
| american culture | |
| birth of a nation | |
| censorship | |
| cinema historians | |
| class differences | |
| controversial films | |
| cultural history | |
| early 20th century | |
| film content | |
| film culture | |
| film industry | |
| film regulations | |
| film scholars | |
| film studies | |
| gender roles | |
| governance and culture | |
| immigration issues | |
| nonfiction | |
| policing art | |
| political elites | |
| power of cinema | |
| prize fights | |
| racism | |
| role of cinema | |
| sex scandals | |
| slave films | |
| social function | |
| social history | |
| social justice | |
| textbooks | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-329) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Policing cinema -- 2. Scandalous cinema, 1906/1907 -- 3. Reforming cinema, 1907/1909 -- 4. Fighting films, 1909/1912 -- 4. Judging cinema, 1913/1914. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles.Tracing the discourses and practices of cultural and political elites and the responses of the nascent film industry, Grieveson reveals how these interactions had profound effects on the shaping of film content, form, and, more fundamentally, the proposed social function of cinema: how cinema should function in society, the uses to which it might be put, and thus what it could or would be. Policing Cinema develops new perspectives for the understanding of censorship and regulation and the complex relations between governance and culture. In this work, Grieveson offers a compelling analysis of the forces that shaped American cinema and its role in society. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Policing cinema |
| ISBN: | 1-59734-813-9 |
| 1-282-35975-4 | |
| 0-520-93742-2 | |
| 9786612359750 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783389403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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