Obscenity, Censors, and the Movies  

The censor’s work is never secure, for history deals harshly with yesterday’s moral judgments. The road from the 1909 Chicago censor’s refusal to license two feckless horse operas (“Tile James Boys” and “Night Riders”) to this year’s unstinting praise for …



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