Annette Kuhn's Cinema, Censorship, and Sexuality 1909-1925 offers an interesting and thoughtful theoretical perspective on censorship (as, following Foucault, not simply a prohibitive but also a _productive_ act). You might also want to look at Edward de Grazia's Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius. The book is not about film specifically, but it offers a useful history of obscenity law that focuses on artists and authors. Even if you're more interested in film this book might be useful to you- to help you get a broad picture of how censorship operates across texts, not just how it operates in relation to films. Heather Hendershot [log in to unmask]