The Face on the Cutting Room Floor: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship
by Murray Schumach
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Morrow, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First printing. hardcover. 305 pp. with index. Near fine in edge rubbed dust jacket. Intriguing bhisotry of cineman censorship from the time of the silents and the films of Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand Theda Bara, and Clara Bow, the pre-code talkies of Jean Harlow (and again the "It Girl" Bow), the era of the Legion of Decency and the Hays Commission, the blacklisting period of the McCarthy era, and the first Motion Picture Production Code. Television censorship as well as that in foreign countries is also touched upon.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E25514
- Title
- The Face on the Cutting Room Floor: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship
- Author
- Murray Schumach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- movies, film, cinema, censorship, hayes, hays, entrtainment, hollywood, silent movies,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Movies;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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