Grieveson, Lee. Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
This work studies the film industry and its regulation, addressing the impact and effect of social and cultural dynamics and forces (immigration, modernization, gender roles).
Heins, Marjorie. Not In Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2002.
This book was the winner of the American Library Association's 2002 Eli M. Oboler Award for the Best Work in the area of Intellectual Freedom.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. The Morals of the Movie.. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co, 1922.
One of the early studies of the impact of the new motion picture industry upon American morals by the first secretary of the Pennsylvania Board of Motion Picture Censors.
Prince, Stephen. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Prince looks at the way censorship shaped and influenced the filming of violence from 1930-1968.
Saylor, Richard C. "Banned in Pennsylvania.." Pennsylvania Heritage 25:3 (Summer 1999).
This article traces the development and history of the Keystone State's film censorship board. Much of the article is devoted to Edna Rothwell Carroll and her actions as she served as the chairwomen of the board from 1939-1955.
This History Matters website provides the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 as quoted in Leonard J. Jeff and Jerold Simmons, eds., The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s (New York: Grove Wiedenfeld, 1990), 283-286.
Firstamendmentcenter.org: Arts and First Amendment in Speech http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Speech/arts/overview.aspx
This educational site is operated by Vanderbuilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and in Arlington, Virginia, and explores issues dealing with the First Amendment.
Reasons for Movie Ratings (CARA) http://www.filmratings.com/
Go to this site for an explanation of the current movie ratings or to find how a current film is rated.
The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry http://prodcode.davidhayes.net/
This site offers The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, accompanying articles, and examples of the code applied to films.
