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The face on the cutting room floor : the story of movie and television censorship / Murray Schumach.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schumach, Murray, 1913-
- Series:
- Da Capo paperback
- A Da Capo paperback
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Censorship.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Television--Censorship.
- Television.
- Television broadcasting--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Television broadcasting.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 305 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Da Capo Press], [1975.]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. The law and the profits
- Censorship in the Nude
- Birth of an Unseen Star-The Censor
- Sodom by the Sea
- That Old Code Magic
- Hollywood Cato
- Chapter 2. Quality and control
- Mammary Madness
- Indemnity, Eternity Plus Two
- A Streetcar Named Milestone
- Chapter 3. Pressures and politics
- Legion of Decency
- Protestant Pressure
- Sweet Minority Persuasion
- Pressures from Bureaucracy
- Chapter 4. Aftermath of cowardice
- The Hollywood Blacklist
- The Hollywood Underground
- Pre-censor First-Think Later
- The Devil in Hollywood
- Chapter 5. Boudoirs and blood
- Sex
- Mayhem for the Masses
- Chapter 6. By trial and error
- Censorship and the Courts
- Loony Bins of Censorship
- Censorship Exotica
- Moral Brinkmanship
- Chapter 7. Television censorship
- The Toothless Code
- Madison Avenue's Blacklist Tremens
- The Bland Leading the Bland
- Chapter 8. What next?
- The Battle for Classification
- Yesterday and Tomorrow
- APPENDICES
- I. Curious Samples of Foreign Censorship
- II. How Some Foreign Countries Classify Films
- III. The Motion Picture Production Code.
- Notes:
- "First paperback printing 1975."
- Reprint of the ed. published by Morrow, New York.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0306800098
- 9780306800092
- OCLC:
- 1091878
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