Policing Cinema

Lee Grieveson is a Lecturer in the Film Studies Program in the School of Humanities, King's College, University of London, and a recipient of the prestigious Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. "This book restores my interest in the study of early cinema because it breaks important new ground and provides fresh and compelling perspectives. Grieveson demonstrates his mastery of this material in a way that is almost unprecedented and completely exemplary."—Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (History of American Cinema, Vol. 1) " Policing Cinema is an outstanding piece of scholarship, easily the best book on early motion picture regulation and one whose argument about evolving definitions of cinema in the years leading up to the first World War will have a profound impact on conceptions of Hollywood 'classicism.'"—Shelley Stamp, author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon Zusammenfassung White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, and filmed prize fights became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. This title examines the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Policing Cinema 2. Scandalous Cinema, 1906–1907 3. Reforming Cinema, 1907–1909 4. Film Fights, 1910–1912 5. Judging Cinema, 1913–1914 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments of Permissions Index

Product details

• Authors: Lee Grieveson, Grieveson Lee, Lee Grievson
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2004
• EAN: 9780520239661
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23966-1
• No. of pages: 361
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Films, cinema, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Ethical Issues: Censorship