Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor

by Aubrey Malone

Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency--culminating in a new age of restrictiveness in the movies.

Such powerful arbiters of public taste as Will H. Hays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786464658
• ISBN13: 9780786464654
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher