Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.

GREGORY D. BLACK University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
NANDANA BOSE University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
JON LEWIS Oregon State University, USA
MARTIN LOIPERDINGER University of Trier, Germany
CARMEN MCCAIN University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
DILEK KAYA MUTLU Bilkent University, Turkey
DAVID NEWMAN Simon Fraser University, Canada
FRANCISCO PEREDO CASTRO Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Mexico City, Mexico
JULIAN PETLEY Brunel University, UK
KEVIN ROCKETT Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
RICHARD TAYLOR Swansea University, Wales
DANIELA TREVERI GENNARI Oxford Brookes University, UK
PIERRE VÉRONNEAU Université de Montréal, Université du Québec, and Concordia University, Canada
LAURA WITTERN-KELLER University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
ZHIWEI XIAO California State University, USA

Silencing Cinema: An Introduction; D.Biltereyst & R.Vande Winkel PART I: CENSORSHIP, REGULATION, AND HEGEMONY All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States; L.Wittern-Keller American Morality Is Not to Be Trifled With : Content Regulation in Hollywood after 1968; J.Lewis When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years of Film Censorship in Canada; P.Véronneau  Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, and Ideology in Mexican Film Censorship; F.M.Peredo-Castro PART II: CONTROL, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE Film Censorship in Germany: Continuity and Changes through Five Political Systems; M.Loiperdinger Seeing Red: Political Control of Cinema in the Soviet Union; R.Taylor Prohibition, Politics, and Nation Building: A History of Film Censorship in China; Z.Xiao Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema; D.K.Mutlu PART III: COLONIALISM, LEGACY, AND POLICIES The Censor and the State in Great Britain; J.Petley British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941; D.Newman 'We do not certify backwards': Film Censorship in Post-Colonial India; N.Bose  Irish Film Censorship: Refusing the Fractured Family of Foreign Films; K.Rockett PART IV: CENSORSHIP MULTIPLICITY, MORAL REGULATION, AND EXPERIENCES Nollywood, Kannywood, and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria; C.McCain The Legion of Decency and the Movies; G.D.Black Blessed Cinema: State and Catholic Censorship in Post-war Italy; D.T.Gennari Film Censorship in a Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies of Film Control and Audience's Experiences of Censorship in Belgium; D.Biltereyst