Monitoring the movies: the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America

Introduction : the origins of the anticensorship movement

The lesser of two evils : debating motion picture censorship, 1907-1912

Critical and constructive : the National Board's standards and city plan for voluntary motion picture review, 1912-1916

An historical presentation : the birth of a nation and the city plan, 1909-1917

Is any girl safe? White slave traffic films and the geography of censorship, 1914-1917

Whether you like pictures or not : the general federation of women's clubs and state censorship legislation, 1916-1920

Southern enterprises : building better films committees in the urban south, 1921-1924

Conclusion : censorship and the age of self-regulation, 1924-1968

Appendix : a partial list of cities cooperating with the National Board of Review, 1918.