Movie Censorship and American Culture Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	The Politics of Performance: Theater Licensing and the Origins of Movie Censorship in New York	16
	Passions and the Passion Play: Theater, Film, and Religion in America, 1880-1900	43
	Mothering the Movies: Women Reformers and Popular Culture	73
	"To Prevent the Prevalent Type of Book": Censorship and Adaptation in Hollywood, 1924-1934	97
	Hollywood, Main Street, and the Church: Trying to Censor the Movies before the Production Code	129
	Black Films, White Censors: Oscar Micheaux Confronts Censorship in New York, Virginia, and Chicago	159
	Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It: Censoring Mae West	187
	Foreign Parts: Hollywood's Global Distribution and the Representation of Ethnicity	212
	Political Censorship During the Cold War: The Hollywood Ten	237
	"A Significant Medium for the Communication of Ideas": The Miracle Decision and the Decline of Motion Picture Censorship, 1952-1968	258
	The Paradox of Protest: American Film, 1980-1992	277
	Contributors	319
	Index	321