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book		Banned films : movies, censors, and the First Amendment / Edward de Grazia and Roger K. Newman New York: Bowker, 1982. Call No: 44(73) DEG Author: De Grazia, Edward, 1927; Newman, Roger K Place: New York Publisher: Bowker PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: xxiii, 455 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Subject: CENSORSHIP. USA; BANNED FILMS. USA; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973); ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (US, Mike Nichols, 1971); ALIBI (US, Roland West, 1929) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 391-394 ISBN: 0835215091; 0835215113 (soft) LON: 2214260 More info
book		The censorship papers : movie censorship letters from the Hays office, 1934-1968 / by Gerald Gardner New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987. Call No: 44(73) GAR Author: Gardner, Gerald C Edition: 1st ed Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Dodd, Mead PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: xxiv, 226 p. ; 24 cm Subject: Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.; CENSORSHIP. USA; HAYS, WILL; BREEN, JOSEPH Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0396089038 LON: 5427052 More info
subject clippings file		CENSORSHIP. USA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CENSORSHIP. USA More info
book		Coming to terms with Hollywood / edited by Jim Cook and Alan Lovell London: British Film Institute, 1981. Call No: 45:32(73) COM Author: Lovell, Alan; Cook, Jim Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: 83 p. : 30 cm Series: BFI dossier ; no. 11 Subject: POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; ROTHA, PAUL; KAZAN, ELIA; LOSEY, JOSEPH; DMYTRYK, EDWARD; GARFIELD, JOHN; HELLMAN, LILLIAN; POLONSKY, ABRAHAM; RAY, NICHOLAS; WELLES, ORSON; ODETS, CLIFFORD; ROSSEN, ROBERT; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); CROSSFIRE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1947) Notes: Includes bibliographical references LON: 2888114 More info
book		Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No: 71(73) CON Author: Neale, Stephen; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION. USA; EXHIBITION. USA; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; SPECTATORSHIP; MEN IN FILMS. USA; MELODRAMA; MUSIC, FILM; SOUND TRACKS; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BLACK CINEMA. USA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA; BLOCKBUSTERS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; CENSORSHIP. USA; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA; HORROR FILMS. USA; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR; ACTION FILMS; AUDIENCES; MIRAMAX FILMS; NEW LINE CINEMA; TIME WARNER; VERHOEVEN, PAUL; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD; HAMILTON, LINDA; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; ELFMAN, DANNY; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996); BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992); BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989); BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993); LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and index ISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.) LON: 98005952; 13736490 More info
book		The dame in the kimono : Hollywood censorship, and the production code from the 1920s to the 1960s / Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. Call No: 44(73) LEF Author: Leff, Leonard J.; Simmons, Jerold L. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 350 p. ; 26 cm Subject: CENSORSHIP. USA; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ISBN: 0297810332 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Freedom and entertainment : rating the movies in an age of new media / Stephen Vaughn New York NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Call No: 441.1 VAU Author: Vaughn, Stephen Source: US Place: New York NY Publisher: Cambridge University Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: xvi, 336 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: CENSORSHIP. USA; RATING FOR FILMS. USA; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; HEFFNER, RICHARD; VALENTI, JACK Summary: Based on the private papers and oral history of Richard D. Heffner, who headed the Classification and Rating Administration from 1974-1994, this book tells the story of the motion picture rating system and the Motion Picture Association of America under Jack Valenti's leadership. [Taken from book's blurb.] ISBN: 052167541 More info
		From the third eye : the Evergreen Review film reader / edited by Ed Halter and Barney Rosset New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018. Call No: 115.3(73) EVE Author: Rosset, Barney; Halter, Ed Edition: 2018 Place: New York Publisher: Seven Stories Press PubDate: 2018 PhysDes: 334 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm Subject: VOGEL, AMOS; ROSSET, BARNEY; WARHOL, ANDY; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; DURAS, MARGUERITE; KLEIN, WILLIAM; HOPPER, DENNIS; SJOMAN, VILGOT; DEMY, JACQUES; PAPATAKIS, NICO; SEMBENE, OUSMANE; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; EROTIC FILMS; CENSORSHIP. USA; CINEMA 16; ROCHA, GLAUBER Summary: An essential collection of groundbreaking film writing from the legendary Evergreen Review and its cutting-edge coverage of the underground, experimental, pornographic, and political mid-century film scene. In this collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication’s important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring leading writers such as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others, and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to early 1970s. Articles explore politics, revolution, and the cinema; underground and experimental film, pornography, and censorship; and the rise of independent film against the dominance of Hollywood. A new introductory essay by Ed Halter reveals the important role Evergreen Review and its publisher, Grove Press, played in advancing cinema during this period through innovations in production, distribution, and exhibition. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781609806156 More info
Old collection book		Hollywood as historian : American film in a cultural context / edited by Peter C. Rollins Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Call No: 49:930.2 HOL Author: Rollins, Peter C. Source: US Place: Lexington, Ky. Publisher: University Press of Kentucky PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; FOX STUDIOS; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); WILSON (US, Henry King, 1944); NEGRO SOLDIER, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944); SNAKE PIT (US, Anatole Litvak, 1948); CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (US, Mike Nichols, 1966); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); ADAPTATiONS. CONRAD, JOSEPH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); NATIVE LAND (US, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, 1942); CENSORSHIP. USA; RIVER, THE (US, Lorentz Pare, 1937) Notes: Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 0813101549 (pbk.) More info
book		Hollywood goes to war : films and American society, 1939-1952 / Colin Shindler London Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1979. Call No: 45:355 SHI Author: Shindler, Colin, PhD Place: London Boston Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: xv, 152 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series: Cinema and society Subject: WAR AND THE CINEMA. USA; WAR FILMS. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946); CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (US, Anatole Litvak, 1939) Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 143-144 ISBN: 0710002904 : ª9.75 LON: 1565907 More info
book		Hollywood goes to war : how politics, profits and propaganda shaped World War II movies / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black London: I.B. Tauris, 1987. Call No: 45:355 KOP Author: Koppes, Clayton R. and Black, Gregory D. Place: London Publisher: I.B. Tauris PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: x, 374 p. [16] p. of plates ; 23 cm Subject: POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA Notes: bibliography, contains index ISBN: 1850430748 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen and the production code administration / Thomas Doherty New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Call No: 81BRE DOH Author: Doherty, Thomas Patrick Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2007 PhysDes: x, 427 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Subject: CENSORSHIP; CENSORSHIP. USA; BREEN, JOSEPH Summary: "From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one of the most powerful men in the motion picture industry. As enforcer of the puritanical Production Code, Breen dictated "final cut" over more movies than anyone in the history of American cinema. His editorial decisions profoundly influenced the images and values projected by Hollywood during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War." "Cultural historian Thomas Doherty tells the absorbing story of Breen's ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign. Breen vetted story lines, blue-penciled dialogue, and excised footage (a process that came to be known as "Breening") to fit the demands of his strict moral framework. Empowered by industry insiders and millions of like-minded Catholics who supported his missionary zeal, Breen strove to protect innocent souls from the temptations beckoning from the motion picture screen."--BOOK JACKET Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-407) and index ISBN: 9780231143585 Contents: Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 -- 1 The Victorian Irishman -- 2 Bluenoses Against the Screen -- 3 Hollywood Shot to Pieces -- 4 The Breen Office -- 5 Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema -- 6 Confessional -- 7 Intermission at RKO -- 8 At War with the Breen Office -- 9 In His Sacerdotalism -- 10 "Our Semitic Brethren" -- 11 Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies -- 12 Invasion of the Art Films -- 13 Amending the Ten Commandments -- 14 Not the Breen Office -- 15 Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory -- App The Production Code More info
book		Hollywood spectatorship : changing perceptions of cinema audiences / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 2000. Call No: 410 HOL Author: Maltby, Richard, 1952; Stokes, Melvyn CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: 240p. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); CENSORSHIP. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; CINEPHILIA ISBN: 0851708110; 0851708102(pbk.) : ¦15.99 LON: 21774778 More info
book		Hollywood vs. America : popular culture and the war on traditional values / Michael Medved New York, NY [Grand Rapids, Mich.]: HarperCollins Zondervan, 1992. Call No: 409.1(73) MED Author: Medved, Michael Edition: 1st ed Source: US Place: New York, NY [Grand Rapids, Mich.] Publisher: HarperCollins Zondervan PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xiii, 386 p. ; 25 cm Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; JEWS AND THE CINEMA. USA; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA; MARRIAGE IN FILMS. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA; COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989); LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) Summary: "Why does popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbates every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index ISBN: 006016882X LON: 92052604; 9162681 More info
book		The movies : the sixty-year story of the world of Hollywood from pre-nickelodeon days to the present / by Richard Griffith and Arthur Mayer London: Spring Books, c1957. Call No: 71(73) GRI; FOLIO Author: Griffith, Richard, 1912; Mayer, Arthur, b. 1886 Place: London Publisher: Spring Books PubDate: c1957 PhysDes: 442 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm Subject: USA; STARS; COMEDIES. USA; WESTERNS; WAR FILMS. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; DEMILLE, CECIL B. Notes: Includes index LON: 3982643 More info
book		The movies : revised & updated edition of the classic history American motion pictures / Richard Griffith, Arthur Mayer and Eileen Bowser London: Columbus Books, 1981. Call No: 71(73) GRI; FOLIO Author: Griffith, Richard; Mayer, Arthur; Bowser, Eileen Place: London Publisher: Columbus Books PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: 560 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm Subject: USA; STARS; COMEDIES. USA; WESTERNS; WAR FILMS. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; DEMILLE, CECIL B. Notes: Includes index LON: 3982643 Donation: the family of Wayne Levy ID2: 358 More info
journal article		Naked City in Lumiere (February 1971) iss.7 p.20-21 Author: McNally, John PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; CENSORSHIP. USA; PORNOGRAPHY IN FILMS. USA Summary: Article on the U.S. Federal Commission on Obscenity and Pornography recently released report. Has brief history of 'skin' flicks in America. More info
journal article		Producer faces problems with U.S. T.V. over film's commercial in Australasian Cinema (10/9/1982) vol.11 iss.16 p.5 PhysDes: Article Subject: SECRET POLICEMAN'S OTHER BALL, THE (UK, Julian Temple, 1982); CENSORSHIP. USA; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; GREATER UNION Summary: Article on censorship problems facing the trailer for 'The Secret Policeman's Other Ball' in America. More info

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