Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era by Ellen C. Scott

Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era

Ellen C. Scott

268 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930s, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the “N-word.” This censorshi...

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