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- Title
Local Public Opinion: The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Fight against Film Censorship in Virginia, 1916–1922.
- Authors
FRONC, JENNIFER
- Abstract
This article examines the conflict that ensued when the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (a New York City-based organization that opposed any form of legal film censorship) entered the debate over Virginia's state film censor board. Virginia's engagement with film censorship emerged out of its history and politics, particularly in regard to race relations. Elite white Virginians lived in fear both of federal intervention (with the specter of Reconstruction not far behind them) and of a local usurpation of political power by black Virginians. The National Board of Review (NBR) was largely ignorant of this situation, which worked against their goals and ability to cultivate reliable allies. In the 1910s and 1920s, film raised issues about authorities – locally based and oriented versus nationally oriented authority, private authority and municipal, state, and/or federal authority.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; UNITED States; NATIONAL Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.); MOTION picture censorship; CENSORSHIP; ANTICENSORSHIP activists; AFRICAN Americans; AUTHORITY -- Social aspects; LOCAL government -- Social aspects; FEDERAL-city relations; VIRGINIA state history; 20TH century history of race relations in the United States; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2013, Vol 47, Issue 3, p719
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875812001375