About the Author

Gerald R. Butters, Jr., is Associate Professor of History at Aurora University and author of Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

Reviews

"I believe that Banned in Kansas will (and should) become a classic in the field of the social history of the motion picture in America. This book makes a very significant contribution and fills a very large void in our understanding of the forces behind the issue of social control of this important medium in the twentieth century."--Garth Jowett, author of Film: The Democratic Art