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Intro -- Banned in Kansas -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One Progressivism and the New Medium of Film -- Two Kansas and the Fight over Motion Picture Censorship -- Three "We Can Hardly Make Any Definite Rules" The Difficulty of Censorship as Practice, 1915 -- Four The Birth of a Nation and Kansas -- Five The Battle Lines Are Drawn, 1916-1917 -- Six World War I and the Struggle against Sin, 1917-1919 -- Seven The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1927 -- Eight The Challenge of Sound, 1928-1934 -- Nine An Age of Maturity? 1934-1948 -- Ten The Moon Is Blue over Kansas, 1948-1954 -- Eleven Jane Russell, Brigitte Bardot, and Ephraim London as the Enemy, 1954-1959 -- Twelve The Final Years of Film Censorship, 1960-1966 -- Conclusion -- Appendix Eliminations Made in Frankenstein (Universal) 8 Reels, Star: Colin Clive -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This first book-length study of state film censorship examines the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas, taking a look at why censorship legislation was enacted, what the attitudes of Kansans were toward censorship, and why it lasted for half a century"--Provided by publisher