Matthew Bernstein teaches film studies at Emory University.

Matthew Bernstein teaches film studies at Emory University.

Controlling Hollywood book. Published December 1st 1999 by Rutgers University Press (first published November 30th 1999). Start by marking Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era (Depth of Field Series). 0813527074 (ISBN13: 9780813527079).

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He is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Emory University.

Bernstein, Matthew, ed. Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Er. Good overview of the censorship situation in the United States until the late 1960s by a significant media historian. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. The Censorship of the Movies: The Social and Political Control of a Mass Medium. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. E-mail Citation . Randall’s book delineates the legal contexts and the procedures of state and city prior restraint censorship, as well as more informal mechanisms, as they operated in the 1960s.

Censorship, as most serious filmgoers know, shaped the sensibility of all the pictures we know from the "Golden .

Censorship, as most serious filmgoers know, shaped the sensibility of all the pictures we know from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.

Scandals and Censorship

Scandals and Censorship. In the early 1920s, a series of scandals rocked Hollywood. Rather than losing control of their product and face the involvement of the government, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of American (MPPDA) hired Warren Harding’s Republican postmaster general, Will Hays, to address the problem. In their book, Thompson and Bordwell say Hays appealed to the studios to remove objectionable content from their films and in 1927, he gave them a list of material to avoid, called the Don’ts and Be Carefuls list. It covered most sexual immorality and the depiction of criminal activity.

Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era. Rutgers University Press 1999; ISBN 0-8135-2707-4. Black, Gregory D. Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies. Cambridge University Press 1996; ISBN 0-521-56592-8. Butters J. Gerard R. Banned in Kansas: motion picture censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press 2007; ISBN 0-8262-1749-4. Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934.