1 BOXING, PORN, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MOVIE CENSORSHIP

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. FOREWORD THE HONORABLE ALEX KOZINSKI CHIEF JUDGE OF THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I Censoring the Cinema
7. 1 BOXING, PORN, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MOVIE CENSORSHIP 7
8. 2 THE RISE OF SALACIOUS CINEMA 19
9. 3 STATE REGULATIONS EMERGE 24
10. 4 MUTUAL AND THE CAPACITY FOR EVIL 40
11. 5 WAR, NUDITY, AND BIRTH CONTROL 56
12. 6 SELF-REGULATION REEMERGES 77
13. 7 MIDNIGHT MOVIES AND SANCTIONED CINEMA 81
14. 8 SOUND ENTERS THE DEBATE 86
15. 9 TENSION INCREASES BETWEEN FREE SPEECH AND STATE CENSORSHIP 90
16. 10 THREATS FROM ABROAD AND DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES 97
17. PART II Freedom of the Screen
18. 11 OUTLAWS AND MIRACLES 117
19. 12 STATE CENSORSHIP STATUTES ON THE DEFENSE 143
20. 13 DEVIL IN THE DETAILS Film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments 179
21. PART III Dirty Words, Filthy Pictures, and Where to Find Them
22. 14 DIRTY WORDS Profanity and the Patently Offensive 201
23. 15 FILTHY PICTURES Obscenity from Nudie Cuties to Fetish Films 210
24. 16 THE PORNO CHIC From Danish Loops to Deep Throat 243
25. 17 JUST NOT HERE Content Regulation through Zoning 273
26. PART IV Censorship Today
27. 18 IS CENSORSHIP NECESSARY? 293
28. 19 THE POLITICS OF PROFANITY 303
29. CONCLUSION 316
30. NOTES 319
31. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 358
32. INDEX 361