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Author

Pondillo, Robert, 1951-

Title America's first network TV censor : the work of NBC's Stockton Helffrich / Robert Pondillo.

Imprint

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	384.55 H367Bp 2010	---	Available

Description	xi, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : context and beginnings of TV censorship -- Stockton who? -- The early years -- The NBC-TV program policies manual -- Sin, sex, and TV censorship -- Gagging the gags -- TV violence -- Postwar racial discourse -- Of truth and toilet paper -- Conclusion : a prescient vision.
Subject	Helffrich, Stockton, 1911-1997.
	Television broadcasting -- United States -- Biography.
	Television -- Censorship -- United States.
	National Broadcasting Company.
ISBN	9780809329182 (alk. paper)
	0809329182 (alk. paper)