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Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. Sheri Chinen Biesen unveils the behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explore how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing cultural and industrial landscape.
Although most introductory textbooks touch upon the broader subject, with a short gloss of the Production Code Administration (PCA), there’s never been a handy guide or a more thorough treatment until now, with Sheri Chinen Biesen’s expertly researched, amply illustrated, and wonderfully concise primer Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen. . . . Film Censorship fills an important gap and is sure to provide a vital resource for students and readers eager to immerse themselves in this fascinating and equally fraught subject.
[A] thoroughly researched introduction to American film censorship.
Through original and rich case studies, this volume explores the authorship, power and organization of censorship in compelling ways. Enormously valuable.
This impressive, concise, readable book should become a standard in university classrooms that teach American film culture. . . . Essential.
Students of film censorship should learn about this crucial legal component of the regulation of American screens.
Sheri Chinen Biesen is a Professor of Film History at Rowan University. She is the author of Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films (2014) and Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (2005).