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Barbas, Samantha. \u201cThe Political Spectator: Censorship, Protest, and the Moviegoing Experience, 1912-1922.\u201d Film History<\/em> 11:2 (1999): 217-229.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bentley, Eric.  Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? The Investigation of Show Business by the Un-American Activities Committee, 1947-1958<\/em>.  New York: Harper & Row, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernstein, Matthew, ed.  Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black, Gregory D. Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies.  <\/em>New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black, Gregory D.  The Catholic Crusade Against the Movies, 1940-1975. <\/em>New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blumer, Herbert, and Philip Hauser.  Movies, Delinquency, and Crime<\/em>.  New York: Macmillan, 1933.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brasell, R. Bruce.  \u201cA Dangerous Experiment to Try\u2019: Film Censorship During the Twentieth Century in Mobile, Alabama.\u201d  Film History<\/em> 15:1 (2003): 81-102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buhle, Paul, and Dave Wagner.  Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002<\/em>.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butters, Gerald R., Jr.  Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915\u20131966<\/em>.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cadegan, Una M.  “Guardians of Democracy or Cultural Storm Troopers?  American Catholics and the Control of Popular Media, 1934-1966.”  Catholic Historical Review<\/em> 87:2 (April 2001): 252-282. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceplair, Larry, and Steven Englund.  The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceplair, Larry.  \u201cRing Lardner, Jr. and the Hollywood Blacklist: A New Perspective on the Perennial Struggle Against Thought Control in the United States.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>39:1 (2019): 75-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinen Biesen, Sheri.  Film Censorship: Regulating America\u2019s Screen<\/em>.  New York: Wallflower Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cocks, Orrin.  \u201cWhat Standards Shall We Have for Motion Pictures to be Shown to Children?\u201d  Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology<\/em> 6:4 (November 1915): 627-629.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Couvares, Francis G., ed., Movie Censorship and American Culture. <\/em>Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Czitrom, Daniel.  \u201cThe Redemption of Leisure: The National Board of Censorship and the Rise of Motion Pictures in New York City, 1900-1920.\u201d Studies in Visual Communication<\/em> 10:4 (Fall 1984): 2-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Czitrom, Daniel.  \u201cThe Politics of Performance: From Theater Licensing to Movie Censorship in Turn-of-the-Century New York.\u201d American Quarterly<\/em> 44:4 (December 1992): 525-553.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

de Grazia, Edward, and Roger K. Newman.  Banned Films: Movies, Censors, and the First Amendment<\/em>.  New York: Bowker, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick, Bernard F.  Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten<\/em>.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doherty, Thomas.  Hollywood\u2019s Censor: Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Doherty, Thomas.  Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eaton, Walter Pritchard. \u201cThe Menace of the Movies.\u201d  American Magazine<\/em> 76 (September 1913): 55-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eckstein, Arthur.  \u201cThe Hollywood Ten in History and Memory.\u201d  Film History<\/em> 16:4 (2004): 424-436.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher, Robert.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cFilm Censorship and Progressive Reform: The National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures, 1909-1922.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Popular Film<\/em>\u00a05:2 (1975): 143-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friedman, Jane M. \u201cThe Motion Picture Rating System of 1968: A Constitutional Analysis of Self-Regulation by the Film Industry.\u201d\u00a0Columbia Law Review<\/em>\u00a073, no. 2 (1973): 185\u2013240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fronc, Jennifer. \u201cLocal Public Opinion: The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Fight Against Film Censorship in Virginia, 1916-1922.\u201d\u00a0Journal of American Culture<\/em>\u00a047:3 (2013): 719-742.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fronc, Jennifer.\u00a0\u00a0Monitoring the Movies: The Fight Over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century America<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardner, Gerald C.  The Censorship Papers: Movie Censorship Letters From the Hays Office, 1934-1968<\/em>.  New York: Dodd Mead, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geltzer, Jeremy.  Filthy Words and Dirty Pictures: Film and the First Amendment<\/em>. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geltzer, Jeremy.  Film Censorship in America: A State-By-State History<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gladchuk, John Joseph. “Reticent Reds: HUAC, Hollywood, and the Evolution of the Red Menace, 1935-1950.”  PhD dissertation, University of California- Riverside, 2006.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gladchuk, John.  Hollywood and Anticommunism: HUAC and the Evolution of the Red Menace<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene, Jane M. \u201cHollywood\u2019s Production Code and Thirties Romantic Comedy.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 30 (March 2010): 55\u201373.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grieveson, Lee.  Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth Century America<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris, Albert W., Jr.  \u201cMovie Censorship and the Supreme Court: What Next?\u201d  California Law Review<\/em> 42:1 (Spring 1954): 122-138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horne, Gerald.    The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hrach, Thomas J.  \u201cLocal Film Censorship\u2019s Last Stand: The Memphis Board of Review, 1967 to 1976.\u201d American Journalism<\/em>39:3 (Summer 2022): 267-292.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humphries, Reynold.  Hollywood\u2019s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History<\/em>.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.Inglis, Ruth.  Freedom of the Movies: A Report on Self-Regulation from the Commission on Freedom of the Press<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacobs, Lea.  The Wages of Sin: Censorship in the Fallen Woman Film<\/em>.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarvis, Arthur R., Jr.  \u201cThe Payne Fund Reports: A Discussion of their Content, Public Reaction, and Effect on the Motion Picture Industry, 1930-1940.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>25:2 (Fall 1991): 127-140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jowett, Garth.  “Social Science as a Weapon: The Origin of the Payne Fund Studies, 1926-1929.”  Communication <\/em>13:3 (1992): 211-225.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jowett, Garth S., Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller.  Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kahn, Gordon.  Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the Ten Who Were Indicted<\/em>.  New York: Boni & Gaer, 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koppes, Clayton. \u201cShow Stoppers: Movie Censorship Considered as a Business Proposition.\u201d Essays in Economic and Business History<\/em> 30 (2012): 63\u201376.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krutnik, Frank, et.al. eds.  Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leff, Leonard J., and Jerold L. Simmons.  The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s<\/em>.  New York: Grove Weidenfield, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorence, James L.  The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America<\/em>.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGilligan, Patrick, and Paul Buhle.  Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist<\/em>.  New York: St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeks, Jack D. \u201cFrom the Belly of the HUAC: Investigations of Hollywood, 1947\u20131952.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moley, Raymond.  The Hays Office<\/em>.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore, Paul S. Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun<\/em>.  New York: State University of New York Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moser, John E.  \u201cGigantic Engines of Propaganda: The 1941 Senate Investigation of Hollywood.\u201d Historian<\/em> 63: 4 (Summer 2001): 731-751.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noriega, Chon.  \u201cSomething\u2019s Missing Here: Homosexuality and Film Reviews During the Production Code Era, 1934-1962.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 30:1 (1990): 20-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nurik, Chloe.  \u201cFifty Shades of Film Censorship: Gender Bias From the Hayes Code to the MPAA Ratings.\u201d Communication, Culture & Critique<\/em> 11:4 (2018): 530-547.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ooten, Melissa Dawn.  \u201cScreen Strife: Race, Gender, and Movie Censorship in the New South, 1922\u20131965.\u201d PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ooten, Melissa. \u201cCensorship in Black and White: The Burning Cross<\/em> (1947), Band of Angels (1957), and the Politics of Film Censorship in the American South After World War II.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>33:1 (2013): 77-98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orbach, Barak Y.  \u201cPrizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship\u201d Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities<\/em> 21 (Summer 2009): 251\u2013304.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palmer, Tim.  \u201cSide of the Angels: Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood Trade Press, and the Blacklist.\u201d  Cinema Journal<\/em> 44:4 (Summer 2005): 57-74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime, Rebecca.  Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quigley, Martin S.  Martin J. Quigley and the Glory Days of American Film, 1915-1965<\/em>.  Groton, Conn.: Quigley Publishing, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rice, Tom.  \u201cProtecting Protestantism: The Ku Klux Klan vs. the Motion Picture Industry.\u201d  Film History<\/em> 20:3 (2008): 367-380.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenbloom, Nancy J.  \u201cBetween Reform and Regulation: The Struggle Over Film Censorship in Progressive America, 1909-1922.\u201d Film History<\/em> 1:4 (1987): 307-325.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenbloom, Nancy J.  \u201cFrom Regulation to Censorship: Film and Political Culture in New York in the Early Twentieth Century.\u201d  Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<\/em> 3:4 (October 2004): 369-406. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross, Harris.  \u201cD. W. Griffith v. City Hall: Politics, Ethnicity, and Chicago Film Censorship.\u201d Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society  100<\/em> (Spring 2007): 19\u201340.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross, Harris. \u201cThe Pennsylvania State Board of Censors: The Great War, the Movies, and D. W. Griffith.\u201d  Pennsylvania History<\/em> 75 (Spring 2008): 227\u201359.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sbardellati, John.  \u201cBrassbound G-Men and Celluloid Reds: The FBI\u2019s Search for Communist Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood.\u201d  Film History<\/em> 20:4 (2008): 412-436.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schumach, Murray.  The Face on the Cutting Room Floor: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship<\/em>.  New York: William Morrow and Co., 1964.  (1975 reprint also available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, Ellen C.  \u201cBlack Censor, White Liberties: Civil Rights and Illinois\u2019s 1917 Film Law.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 64:2 (June 2012): 219-247.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, Ellen. \u201cMore Than A \u2018Passing\u2019 Sophistication: Dress, Film Regulation, and the Color Line in 1930s American Films.\u201d Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/em> 41 (Spring\u2013Summer 2013): 60\u201386.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, Ellen. “Regulating \u201cNigger\u201d: Racial Offense, African American Activists, and the MPPDA, 1928\u20131961.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 26, no. 4 (2014): 1-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simmons, Jerold. “Violent Youth: The Censoring and Public Reception of The Wild One<\/em> and The Blackboard Jungle<\/em>.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 20, no. 3 (2008): 381-391.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skinner, James M.  The Cross and the Cinema: The Legion of Decency and the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures, 1933\u20131970<\/em>.  Westport: Praeger, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sligar, Sara. “Reserving the Kill: The Suicide Ban and Criminal Punishment in Code-Era Hollywood Film.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 31, no. 4 (2019): 1-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Jeff.  Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Springhall, John.  \u201cCensoring Hollywood: Youth, Moral Panic, and Crime\/Gangster Movies of the 1930s.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>32:3 (Winter 1998): 135-154.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staiger, Janet.  Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stamp Lindsey, Shelley.  \u201cOil Upon the Flames of Vice\u2019: The Battle Over White Slave Films in New York City.\u201d  Film History<\/em> 9:4 (1997): 351-364.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strassfeld, Ben. \u201cWe Want to Be Neutral: The Right-Wing Extremist Politics of 1930s Detroit Policy Movie Censorship.\u201d Film History<\/em> 34:2 (Summer 2022): 92-117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strub, Whitney. \u201cBlack and White and Banned All Over: Race, Censorship, and Obscenity in Postwar Memphis.\u201d  Journal of Social History<\/em> 40 (Spring 2007): 685\u2013715.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaughn, Robert.  Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting<\/em>.  New York: Putnam, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaughn, Stephen.  “Morality and Entertainment: The Origins of the Motion Picture Production Code.” Journal of American History<\/em> 71 (June 1990): 39-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaughn, Stephen. \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Advocate: Will H. Hays and the Campaign to Make Movies Respectable.\u201d Indiana Magazine of History<\/em> 101 (June 2005): 125\u00ad-152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaughn, Stephen.  Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media.<\/em>  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walsh, Frank.  Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry<\/em>.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wertheimer, John.  \u201cMutual Film Revisited: The Movies, Censorship, and Free Speech in Progressive America.\u201d American Journal of Legal History<\/em> 37:2 (1993): 158-189.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilinsky, Barbara.  \u201cA Thinly Disguised Veneer Covering a Filthy Sex Picture\u2019: Discourses on Art Houses in the 1950s.\u201d  Film History<\/em> 8:2 (1996) 143-158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wittern-Keller, Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981<\/em>.  Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wittern-Keller, Laura, and Raymond J. Haberski Jr. The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court<\/em>.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogerst, Chris. \u201cHughes, Hawkes, and Hays: The Monumental Censorship Battle Over Scarface<\/em> (1932).\u201d Journal of American Culture<\/em> 40:2 (2017): 134-144.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogerst, Chris. \u201cSearching for Common Ground: Hollywood Prior to the Senate Investigation on Motion Picture Propaganda, 1935-1941.\u201d Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>39:4 (December 2019): 725-748.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Film index page Barbas, Samantha. \u201cThe Political Spectator: Censorship, Protest, and the Moviegoing Experience, 1912-1922.\u201d Film History 11:2 (1999): 217-229. Bentley, Eric.  Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? The Investigation of Show Business by the Un-American Activities Committee, 1947-1958.  New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Bernstein, Matthew, ed.  Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1059","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}