Banned in Kansas : motion picture censorship, 1915-1966 / Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
- Author
- Butters, Gerald R., 1961-
- Published
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 348 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Progressivism and the new medium of film -- Kansas and the fight over motion picture censorship --"We can hardly make any definite rules" : the difficulty of censorship as practice, 1915 -- The birth of a nation and Kansas -- The battle lines are drawn, 1916-1917 -- World War I and the struggle against sin, 1917-1919 -- The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1927 -- The challenge of sound, 1928-1934 -- An age of maturity? 1934-1948 -- The moon is blue over Kansas, 1948-1954 -- Jane Russell, Brigitte Bardot, and Ephraim London as the enemy, 1954-1959 -- The final years of film censorship, 1960-1966.
- Summary
- "This first book-length study of state film censorship examines the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas, taking a look at why censorship legislation was enacted, what the attitudes of Kansans were toward censorship, and why it lasted for half a century"--Provided by publisher
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780826266033 (electronic bk.)
0826266037 (electronic bk.)
9780826217493 (alk. paper)
0826217494 (alk. paper) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-334) and index.
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