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CIN374: American Cinema of the Studio Era

A comprehensive guide to finding scholarly books and journal articles about the American studio era, roughly 1930-1970.

Finding Books - Censorship

Use UTCat Browse/Subject, and enter any of the Subject Headings below, exactly as they appear, in the Search Box, then choose Subject from the drop-down menu.

Subject Headings

  • motion pictures censorship united states
  • united states national catholic office for motion pictures
  • pornography
  • censorship history
  • sex in motion pictures
  • violence in mass media
  • national catholic office for motion pictures pornography censorship history
  • sex in motion pictures
  • violence in motion pictures

Subject Headings - HUAC and the blacklist

  • blacklisting of authors united states
  • blacklisting of entertainers united states
  • motion picture industry political aspects

Bibliographies - Censorship

Note: Call numbers may vary; check UTCat (by Title or Author) for local holdings.

  • Censorship (Oxford Bibliographies Online)
  • Movie Censorship incl. bibliographies on Banned and Censored Films, and The Hollywood Blacklist. (U. of Calif.-Berkeley Library)
  • 1950s: Movies, TV and Society incl. The Hollywood Blacklist, The Hollywood Ten, Cold War/ Nuclear War in motion pictures, more... (U. of Calif.-Berkeley Library)

Primary Sources - Censorship

(on microfilm, Media Commons, 3rd flr. Robarts). Note:Use Guide accompanying each item to find reel #. Provide this, along with the call number for the item, to Media Commons staff, who will retrieve the microfilm.:

  • Hollywood and the Production Code PN1993.5 .U6 H545 2006 contains the files related to 500 films produced between 1927 and 1968, selected from the records of the Production Code Administration (PCA). The records document forty years of self-regulation and censorship in the motion picture industry.
  • J. Edgar Hoover and Radicalism in Hollywood Part 1: Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry. HV8144 .F43 J2 2007 Files in this collection include investigations of mainstream films, informer reports, and surveillance of hundreds of influential writers, actors, directors, producers, union leaders, and studio executives. The investigations chronicle the working of major studios, such as Paramount, RKO, and Warner Brothers, and the power struggles between the studios, studio management, and labor unions.