About the Author

FRANCIS G. COUVARES is E. Dwight Salmon professor of history and American studies at Amherst College. He is author of The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City, 1877-1919 and co-author, with Martha Saxton, of Interpretations of American History.

Reviews

"Editor Francis G. Couvares has assembled an all-star group of contributors . . . including a number of individuals who have been especially prominent in the recent scholarship on film and culture. . . . an informative and useful addition to the scholarship about Hollywood's relationship with diverse and often critical audiences."--Film Quarterly "The anthology self-consciously undertakes a shift from thinking about censorship as a group or individual's reflexive act of defining and prohibiting the 'indecent' or 'immoral' to a loose set of processes that constitutes a society's prevailing values and vision of reality. . . . Movie Censorship and American Culture consistently demonstrates how rewarding and necessary is broad attention to the multiple processes that shape the movies as individual productions and as a cultural industry."--Film and History "Offers an excellent overview of the issues involved in film censorship and American culture and should be very useful as supplementary reading for American history and culture courses."--American Studies