America's first network TV censor [electronic resource] : the work of NBC's Stockton Helffrich / Robert Pondillo.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pondillo, Robert, 1951-
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Helffrich, Stockton, > 1911-1997.
National Broadcasting Company.
Television broadcasting > United States > Biography.
Television > Censorship > United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
America's First Network TV Censor: The Work of NBC's Stockton Helffrich
Format: Electronic eBook
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.