The Face on the Cutting Room Floor

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Contents: 1. The law and the profits = 1 1. Censorship in the Nude = 4 2. Birth of an Unseen Star—The Censor = 14 3. Sodom by the Sea = 22 4. That Old Code Magic = 33 5. Hollywood Cato = 41 2. Quality and control = 49 1. Mammary Madness = 52 2. Indemnity, Eternity, Plus Two = 62 3. A Streetcar Named Milestone = 71 3. Pressures and politics = 81 1. Legion of Decency = 84 2. Protestant Pressure = 94 3. Sweet Minority Persuasion = 99 4. Pressures from Bureaucracy = 107 4. Aftermath of cowardice = 117 1. The Hollywood Blacklist = 120 2. The Hollywood Underground = 130 3. Pre-censor First—Think Later = 140 4. The Devil in Hollywood = 149 5. Boudoirs and blood = 157 1. Sex = 160 2. Maybem for the Masses = 170 6. By trial and error = 183 1. Censorship and the Courts = 186 2. Loony Bins of Censorship = 199 3. Censorship Exotica = 207 4. Moral Brinkmanship = 214 7. Television censorship = 225 1. The Toothless Code = 227 2. Madison Avenue's Blacklist Tremens = 233 3. The Bland Leading the Bland = 241 8. What next? = 253 1. The Battle for Classification = 256 2. Yesterday and Tomorrow = 263 APPENDICES = 269 Ⅰ. CURIOUS SAMPLES OF FOREIGN CENSORSHIP = 271 Ⅱ. HOW SOME FOREIGN COUNTRIES CLASSIFY FILMS = 275 Ⅲ. THE MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION CODE = 279 INDEX = 293

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