Film Censorship - Regulating America's Screen - Grand Format

This concise overview provides a survey from the 'pre-Code' years and classic 'Golden Age' to contemporary Hollywood censorship. It draws extensively on primary archival research to unveil the fascinating behind-the-scenes history of film censorship, exploring how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing cultural and industrial landscape. It also considers the historical evolution of censorship in the United States spanning the Jazz Age Prohibition era, lobbying by religious groups against Hollywood, 'Hays Office' industry self-censorship, Office of War Information federal propaganda efforts.
MPAA ratings system, and the legacy of censorship in later years. Case studies include The Outlaw, The Postman Always Rings Tw/ice, Soerface, Double Indemnity, Psycho, Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, and The Exorcist, amongst many others.