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(A Brief History) by: Ken Robichaux © 2007 All Rights Reserved © 2007 The Picture Show Man. All Rights Reserved. The following products will help you explore this subject further: BOOKS: The History of the American Cinema series: 1990 – Vol. 2: The Transformation of Cinema: 1907 – 1915, by Eileen Bowser 1990 – Vol. 3: An Evening's Entertainment: 1915 – 1928, by Richard Koszarski 1997 – Vol. 4: The Talkies: 1926 – 1931, by Donald Crafton 1993 – Vol. 5: Grand Design: 1930 – 1939, by Tino Balio 1997 – Vol. 6: Boom and Bust: the 1940s, by Thomas Schatz 2003 – Vol. 7: The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959, by Peter Lev 2001 – Vol. 8: The Sixties: 1960 – 1969, by Paul Monaco1999 – Pre–Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, & Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934, by Thomas Doherty2001 – The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, & the Production Code, (2nd edition), by Leonard J. Leff & Jerold L. Simmons2006 – Movie Censorship & American Culture, (2nd edition) edited by Francis G. Couvares2007 – Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966, by Gerald R. Butters, Jr.2007 – Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.2007 – Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration, by Thomas Doherty2007 – Miracles & Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, & Film Censorship in Hollywood, by William Bruce Johnson2007 – Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, by Foster Hirsch2008 – Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981, by Laura Wittern–Keller2008 – The Miracle Case: Film Censorship & the Supreme Court, by Laura Wittern–Keller & Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.2008 – The World & Its Double: The Life & Work of Otto Preminger, by Chris Fujiwara2009 – Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films, by Stephen Tropiano DVDs: 1931–1933: Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1, (the TCM Archives – 3 films on 2 discs)1930–1933: Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2, (5 films + documentary on 3 discs)1931–1933: Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 3, (6 films + 2 documentaries on 4 discs)1931–1934: Pre–Code Hollywood Collection, (6 films on 3 discs)1932–1940: Mae West: The Glamour Collection, (5 films on 3 discs)1932–1942: The Tarzan Collection, (6 films on 4 discs) starring Johnny Weissmuller & Maureen O'Sullivan1955 – The Man With the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition), starring Frank Sinatra, directed by Otto Preminger1996 – The Celluloid Closet (Special Edition), narrated by Lily Tomlin2008 – Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema, narrated by Diane Lane

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