Censoring Hollywood: Youth, moral panic and crime/gangster movies of the 1930s

Journal of Popular Culture

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 135-154

  Springhall, John ^a  

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EID: 0039572078     PISSN: 00223840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1998.3203_135.x     Document Type: Article

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