General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Investigating Film Censorship; Questions of censorship Text, context, apparatus Events and instances; 2. The Birth of Film Censorship in Britain; The question of institutions The cinema industry and the law The British Board of Film Censors and 'voluntary censorship'; 3. The Morale of the Race and the Amusement of the Public; A Hollywood film in the USA Where Are My Children: Sermon or melodrama? A Hollywood film in Britain: Cinema and social purity The birth of the propaganda film; 4. A Moral Subject; VD propaganda and narrative cinema The VD film, censorship and social purity A moral panic: The place of cinema; 5. Pleasure, Prevention and Productivity; From Married Love to Maisie's Marriage Popular cinema and a film with a message The productivity of censorship; 6. Sexuality and the cinema; Science and the socio-sexual Social hygiene, social purity and social science The instrumentality of corruption Knowledge, power, cinema; 7. A New Public Sphere; Public and Private A contested Public sphere Cinema as a domain of regulation; 8.

Rethinking Film Censorship; Prohibition and production Film censorship and power; Notes and References; Sources Consulted; Films Unpublished documents Contemporary published documents Other published documents: A selection; Index he productivity of censorship; 6. Sexuality and the cinema; Science and the socio-sexual Social hygiene, social purity and social science The instrumentality of corruption Knowledge, power, cinema; 7. A New Public Sphere; Public and Private A contested Public sphere Cinema as a domain of regulation; 8. Rethinking Film Censorship; Prohibition and production Film censorship and power; Notes and References; Sources Consulted; Films Unpublished documents Contemporary published documents Other published documents: A selection; Index.