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Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas (Facts on File Library of World Literature)
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Dangerous Dossiers
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This book discusses the FBI's program of targeting authors as possibly subversive to the USA-- authors such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, EB White (Charlotte's Web) and others. It also discusses how the FBI tried pressuring the American Library Assn into maintaining reading lists of its patrons but the Assn refused. Some universities do this... »
The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
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In this insightful survey of Hollywood films between the World Wars, the author shows that the increasing proportion of revenue from foreign markets dictated not only greater attention to their political, social, and religious sensitivities, but also influenced the very form of the medium, e.g., a tendency toward "action pictures" at the expense o... »
Forbidden Films: Censorship Histories of 125 Mo
Of interest mainly as a reference source, but a risk for the casual reader. Each of the 125 entries contains a summary of the film's context, a sketch of ... »
Seize the Book, Jail the Author: Johann Lorenz
Dangerous Dossiers
Herbert Mitgang's courageous book is still very topical. His exposure of FBI practices of secretly policing authors and their writings shows how int... »
Film and Censorship: The Index Reader (Cassell
Children's Literature Studies: Cases and Discus
This is a must-have for anyone teaching children's literature classes at the university or high school level. This supplemental text goes above and beyond... »
Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blac
While the subject matter is fascinating, the book itself is in serious need of tighter editing. In fact, I got so frustrated with the author's disjointed... »
An American Adventure in Bookburning: In the St
James J. Martin's AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE IN BOOKBURNING (AAAB)is instructive on different forms of censorship in "The Land of the Free." This small book i... »
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