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Monitoring the Movies: The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America by Jennifer Fronc Details

As the films approached the country in the early 20th century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal authorities or state authorities should intervene to control what people could see when…

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As the films approached the country in the early 20th century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal authorities or state authorities should intervene to control what people could see when they went to cinemas, which seemed to be emerging in every corner. Many who opposed the government's regulation of the film admitted that some councils of entities inhabited by credible civilian leaders, for example, were necessary to protect the public interest.

The National Mobile Review Board (NB), a civic group founded in New York City in 1909, emerged as a nationally appropriate cultural facility to protect this form of expression from the state's incursion. Using the NPC's extensive files, Monitor The Movies offers the first full NB study and its campaign against animation censorship. Jennifer Frunk traces the establishment of the New York Progressive Age.

Its "evolving" set of "standards" for managers, producers, municipal employees and citizens; the "City Plan" that calls on citizens to report on the screening of films condemned to local officials; and the spread of NB's influence in the urban areas of the South. Ultimately, "Watch Movies" shows how Americans deal with issues that have arisen along with powerful new media in the film industry: the right to produce and consume images and the right scope of government control over what citizens can see and show..



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