Table of Contents

A capacity for evil : the 1915 Supreme Court mutual decision / Garth S. Jowett
Moral coercion, or The National Board of Censorship plunders the vice films / Shelley Stamp
The King of Kings and the czar of all the rushes / Richard Malthy
Industry self-regulation and the problem of textual determination / Lea Jacobs
Beyond sex and violence / Ruth Vasey
Blacks, loyalty, and motion picture propaganda in World War II / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black
A tale of three cities, the banning of Scarlet Street / Matthew Bernstein
Controversy has probably destroyed forever the context / Ellen Draper
A good business proposition / Jeff Smith
The stigma of X: adult cinema and the institution of the MPAA ratings system / Justin Wyatt

About the Author

MATTHEW BERNSTEIN teaches film studies at Emory University. He is the author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent and co-editor of Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (Rutgers University Press). His reviews and essays have appeared in major film studies journals.