The face on the cutting room floor : the story of movie and television censorship / by Murray Schumach.

With hard-and supercover

Includes index

Cont.: The law and the profits -- Quality and control -- Pressures and politics -- Aftermath of cowardice -- Boudoirs and blood -- By trial and error -- Television censorship -- What next? -- Appendix 1: Curious samples of foreign censorship -- Appendix 2: How some foreign countries classify films -- Appendix 3: The Motion Picture Production Code.

The history of cinema censorship is as much a panorama of American morality in the twentieth century as it is a tale of quick-buck chicanery, hypocrisy, bigotry, ignorance, and the admirable struggle to make movies a great art form. Starting with the films of Mabel Normand, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, and Jean Harlow, the battles both secret and public over what the American public should or should not see have grown in, etc...