| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966. By Gerald R. Butters Jr. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xviii, 348 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3.)
For more than fifty years, parts of the United States endured governmental control over motion pictures. Between 1907 and 1922, six states and hundreds of localities authorized censor boards to pre-screen all movies exhibited commercially within their borders. Chicago came first, followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio, then Kansas, Maryland, New York, and Virginia. All of these boards lasted well into the 1950s; the ones in Virginia, New York, and Kansas made it to the mid-1960s and Maryland's continued until 1981.	1
While we have much excellent scholarship on Hollywood's "self-censorship"—the Production Code Administration—the state and local film censors have gone unnoticed for the past thirty-eight years (a shame because of the clear symbiotic relationship between the movie industry's own content regulation and the efforts by the government censors). Gerald R. Butters Jr. has made a laudable step toward correcting this historiographical imbalance. Banned in Kansas examines in detail the workings of and the political intrigues behind Kansas's long-lived prior restraint bureaucracy.	. . .

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