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Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966
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by Gerald R. Butters Jr.
Sales Rank: 254413
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: University of Missouri Press August 3, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0826217494
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0826217493
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
In 1915, Kansas became one of a handful of states to establish its own film censorship board, which controlled screen content in the state for more than fifty years. This first book-length study of state film censorship looks at the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas. Butters places the Kansas Board of Review s attempts to control screen content in the context of nationwide censorship efforts, showing how factors such as Progressivism, concern over child rearing, and a supportive press contributed. He traces the board s history from the problems posed by talkies and changing sexual mores in the 1920s to challenges to its power in the 1950s. Stills from motion pictures illustrate the type of screen content the Board attempted to censor.
About The Author
Gerald R. Butters, Jr., is Associate Professor of History at Aurora University and author of Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Reader Reviews
Gerald R. Butters, Jr. (Associate Professor of History at Aurora University) presents Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship 1915-1966. In 1915, Kansas was one of a handful of states that established its own film censorship board. From limiting depictions of sexuality to censoring violence in the 1932 classic "Scarface", the Kansas board controlled what the state's population saw on the silver screen for over fifty years. Banned in Kansas explores the political, social, and economic factors that led to the policy of movie censorship in Kansas, the attitudes of ordinary Kansas citizens toward the censorship, and why censorship continued for so many decades. Banned in Kansas also scrutinizes the daily operations of the film censorship board, and the complexities it encountered with regard to shifting definitions of cultural morality, as well as vagaries of political and legal systems. Black-and-white stills from censored movies illustrate this informed and informative contribution to American cinema history.
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