Banned in Kansas.Banned in Kansas Gerald R. Butters, Jr. University of Missouri Press The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, is a university press that is part of the University of Missouri System. External link
2910 LeMone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201 9780826217493, $44.95 www.umsystem.edu/upress 1-800-828-1894 Gerald R. Butters, Jr. (Associate Professor of History at Aurora University For the defunct catholic university in Shanghai of the same name, see . Academics Aurora University is organized into three colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, and the College of Professional Studies. ) presents Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. 1915-1966. In 1915, Kansas was one of a handful of states that established its own film censorship board. From limiting depictions of sexuality to censoring censoring in epidemiology, a loss of information from a study, whether by subjects dropping out of the study or because of infrequent measurement. violence in the 1932 classic "Scarface", the Kansas board controlled what the state's population saw on the silver screen for over fifty years. Banned in Kansas explores the political, social, and economic factors that led to the policy of movie censorship in Kansas, the attitudes of ordinary Kansas citizens toward the censorship, and why censorship continued for so many decades. Banned in Kansas also scrutinizes the daily operations of the film censorship board, and the complexities it encountered with regard to shifting definitions of cultural morality, as well as vagaries of political and legal systems. Black-and-white stills from censored cen·sor n. 1. A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable. 2. movies illustrate this informed and informative contribution to American cinema history. |
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