Censorship
Below is a selective list of reference sources, books, films, web sites, and more related to the topic of censorship.
Try these subject headings as well: Liberty, Academic Freedom, Censorship, Freedom of Information,
Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, Prohibited Materials, Banned Books, or
Access Control.
Background Information (Reference Sources)
Amey, L.J. Censorship. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press. Ref Z658.U5 C38 1997.
Berne, Emma Carlson. Online Pornography (Opposing Viewpoints). Detroit: Greenhaven Press.
Ref HQ471 .O55 2007
Barbour, Scott. Censorship. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Ref Z657 .C393 2010
Green, Jonathon. The Encyclopedia of Censorship. New York: Facts on File, 2005. Ref Z657 .G73 2005.
Karolides, Nicholas J. 100 banned books: censorship histories of world literature. New York: Checkmark
Books, 1999. Ref Z658.U5 K35 1999.
Censorship
Egendorf, Laura K. Censorship. (Examining issues through political cartoons series) San Diego, CA:
Greenhaven Press, 2003. PN4745 .C45 2003
Friedman, Lauri S. Censorship (Writing the Critical Essay: an Opposing Viewpoints Guide). Detroit:
Greenhaven Press, 2009. Z658 .U5 C3925 2009 On Order
Heins, Marjorie. Not in front of the Children: “indecency,” censorship, and the Innocence of Youth. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. Z658 .U5 H42 2007 [electronic resource]
Huff, Mickey, et al., eds. Censored 2012: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011. New
York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2011. On Order
Lankford, Ronald. Book Banning. (At Issue Series) Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press. Z657 .B73 2008.
Lerner, Alicia and Adrienne Wilmoth. Freedom of Expression. (Global Viewpoints Series) Detroit: Greenhaven
Press. Z657 .F72 2009 On Order
McNichol, Sarah. Forbidden Fruit: the Censorship of Literature and Information for young people: conference
proceedings. Boca Raton: BrownWalker Press. Z657 .F66 2008
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Merino, Noel. Censorship. (Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints) Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010.
Z657 .C394 2010
Miller, Neil. Banned in Boston: the Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against books, burlesque, and the social
evil. Boston: Beacon Press, 2010. HV6795 .B7 M55 2010
Nakaya, Andrea. Censorship: opposing viewpoints. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Z658.U5 C433 2005
Peck, Robert S. Libraries, the First Amendment, and cyberspace: what you need to know. Chicago: American
Library Association, 2000. KF4315 .P43 2000
Phillips, Peter, et al, eds. Censored 2011: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10. New York, NY: Seven
Stories Press, 2010. On Order
Phillips, Peter, et al, eds. Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09. New York, NY: Seven
Stories Press, 2009. On Order
Phillips, Peter, et al, eds. Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08. New York, NY: Seven
Stories Press, 2008. On Order
Riggs, Thomas. Book Banning (At Issues Series) Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Z657 .B735 2011
Arts--Censorship.
Atkins, Robert. and Svetlana Mintcheva, eds. Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression.
(Manifestos for the 21st Century Series) New York, NY: New Press, 2006. On Order
Barron, Stephanie. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. New York, NY: Abrams
Press, 1991. On Order
Butters, Gerald R. Banned in Kansas: motion picture censorship, 1915-1966. Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 2007. PN1995.63 .K36 B87 2007. [electronic resource].
Freedman, Leonard. The Offensive Art: Political Satire and Its Censorship around the World from Beerbohm to
Borat. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. PN6149 .P64 F74 2009
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Censoring the Body. (Manifestos for the 21st Century Series) Great Britain: SeaGull
Books, 2007. On Order
Rosenthal, Beth. Should Music Lyrics be Censored? Detroit: Greenhaven Press. 2012. ML3918 .R37 S56 2012
On Order
Sova, Dawn B. Banned plays: censorship histories of 125 stage dramas. New York: Facts on File, 2004. PN2042
.S68 2004
Wallis, David. Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free. NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. On Order
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Films--Censorship
Couvares, Francis G. Movie Censorship and American Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
2006. PN1995.62 .M68 2006 On Order
Doherty, Thomas P. Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007. PN1995.62 .D64 2007 [electronic resource]
Espejo, Roman. The Film Industry. (Opposing Viewpoints) Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009.
PN1993.5 .U6 F495 2009
Grieveson, Lee. Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth-century America. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2004. PN1995.62 .G75 2004 [electronic resource]
Haberski, Raymond J. Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture. Lexington: University Press
of Kentucky, 2007. PN1995.64 .N49 H33 2007 [electronic resource]
Lancaster, Burt. Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist. CA: One Step Productions, 2005. PN 1590 .B5 L453 2005
[videorecording] On Order
Phillips, Kendall R. Controversial Cinema: the Films that Outraged America. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008.
PN1995.9 .S284 P45 2008
Malone, Aubrey. Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland Publishing, 2011. On Order
Manheim, Michael. Dirty pictures. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2000.
PN1997 .D57 2000. [videorecording].
Petley, Julian and Philip French. Censoring the Moving Image. (Manifestos for the 21st Century Series) Great
Britain: SeaGull Books, 2008. On Order
Wittern-Keller, Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. PN1995.62 .W58 2008 [electronic resource]
Freedom of Information
Chapman, Richard A. Freedom of information local government and accountability. London: Ashgate, 2010.
JN329 .S4 F74 2010. [electronic resource].
Epps, Garrett. The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press: Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary
Debate. Amherst NY: Prometheus Books, 2008. On Order
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Freedom of Speech
Berlatsky, Noah. Are Textbooks Biased? Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. LB3047 .A74 2012 On Order
Denvir, John. Freeing speech: the constitutional war over national security. New York: New York University
Press, 2010. KF4772 .D466 2010. [electronic resource].
Engdahl, Sylvia. Free Speech (Issues on Trial). Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. KF 4772 .F737 2008
Klein, Adam. A space for hate: the white power movement's adaptation into cyberspace. Duluth, MN: Litwin
Books, 2010. HV6437 .K54 2010. [electronic resource].
O'Brien, David M. Congress shall make no law: the First Amendment, unprotected expression, and the Supreme
Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. KF4772 .O27 2010. [electronic resource].
Warburton, Nigel. Free speech: a very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
JC591 .W37 2009.
Ziegler, John. The Death of Free Speech: How Our Broken National Dialogue has Killed the Truth and Divided
America. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Press, 2005.
Intellectual Freedom
American Library Association. Intellectual Freedom Manual. Chicago: Office for Intellectual Freedom. Z711.4
.I57 2010 On Order (1996 ed @ Pecos)
Brems, Eva. Article 14: the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, 2006. K639 .B744 2006. [electronic resource].
Coetzee, J. M. Giving offense: essays on censorship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Z657 .C658
1996.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Shakespeare's freedom. London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. PR2976 .G738 2010.
[electronic resource].
Lange, David. No law: intellectual property in the image of an absolute First Amendment. Stanford, CA:
Stanford Law Books, 2009. KF2979 .L37 2009. [electronic resource].
LaRue, James. The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges. Westport,
Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. Z716.4 .L37 2007 On Order
Laughlin, Robert B. The crime of reason and the closing of the scientific mind. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
JC598 .L38 2008. [electronic resource].
Moore, Adam. Information ethics: privacy, property, and power. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
JC585 .I59 2005
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McLeod, Kembrew. Freedom of expression: overzealous copyright: bozos and other enemies of creativity.
New York: Doubleday, 2005. KF2979 .M348 2005 2005. [electronic resource].
McLeod, Kembrew. Freedom of expression: resistance and repression in the age of intellectual property.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. KF2979 .M348 2007. [electronic resource].
Nelson, Cary. No university is an island: saving academic freedom. New York: New York University Press,
2010. LB2322.2 .N45 2010
Internet—Censorship
Clemmitt, Marcia. Controlling the internet. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. TK5105.875.I57 C54 2006. [electronic
resource].
Deibert, Ronald. Access denied: the practice and policy of global internet filtering. Cambridge, Mass: MIT
Press, 2008. QA76.9 .A25 .A275 2008. [electronic resource].
Deibert, Ronald, et al., eds. Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace.
(Information Revolution and Global Politics Series) Cumberland, RI: MIT Press. (2011) On Order
Deibert, Ronald. Access controlled : the shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace. Cambridge, Mass:
MIT Press, 2010. HM851 .A254 2010
File sharing programs: the use of peer-to-peer networks to access pornography: report to Congressional
requesters. Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office, 2005. Online. [electronic
resource].
Jost, Kenneth. Libraries and the internet. Washington, D.C: CQPress. Z674.75.I58 J67 2001. [electronic
resource]
MacKinnon, Rebecca. Consent of the Networked: the Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. New York:
Basic Books, 2012. On Order
Morozov, Evgeny. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2012.
On Order
Nunziato, Dawn C. Virtual freedom: net neutrality and free speech in the Internet age. Stanford, CA: Stanford
Law Books, 2009. KF4772 .N86 2009. [electronic resource]. (Print On Order)
Pariser, Eli. The filter bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. ZA4237
.P37 2011
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Mass Media
Abelson, Hal, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital
Explosion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley Press, 2008. On Order
Foerstel, Herbert N. Banned in the media: a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures,
broadcasting, and the Internet. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998.
P96 .C42 U654 1998. [electronic resource].
Guins, Raiford. Edited clean version: technology and the culture of control. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2009. P96 .C42 .U655 2009 [electronic resource]
Jennings, Brian. Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio. New York, NY: Threshold Editions, 2009.
KF2812 .J46 2009 On Order
Pondillo, Robert. America's first network TV censor: the work of NBC's Stockton Helffrich. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. PN1992.4 .H42 P76 2010. [electronic resource].
Semonche, John E. Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey through American Media. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Press, 2007. On Order
Silverman, David S. You Can’t Air That: Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television
Programming. (Television and Popular Culture), 2007. PN1992.3 .U5 S555 2007
Prohibited Materials
Baez, Fernando. A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: from Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq. New
York: Atlas & Co., 2008. Z659 .B3413 2008 On Order
Bald, Margaret and Ken Wachsberger. Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds. Facts on File, 2011.
BL65 .C45 B35 2011 On Order (2006 ed. @Pecos)
Barco, Kathy. True stories of censorship in America’s libraries. Washington, DC: ALA Editions. 2012.
On Order
Beckman, Wendy Hart. Robert Cormier: banned, challenged, and censored. Berkeley Heights: Enslow
Publishers, 2008. PS3553 .O653 Z69 2008.
Bily, Cynthia A. Banned books. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Z657 .B195 2012 On Order
Bont, Jan de. Equilibrium. NY: Dimension Home Video, 2003. PN1997 .E68555 2003 [videorecording].
Cohen, Nick. You can’t read this book: censorship in an age of freedom. London: Fourth Estate, 2012.
On Order
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Doyle, Robert P. Banned books: challenging our freedom to read. Washington, DC: American Library
Association, 2010. Z658.U6 D692 2010.
Eastwood, Clint. Million Dollar Baby. CA: Warner Home Video, 2004.
PN1997 .M5447 2005 [videorecording].
Gibson, Mel. The Passion of the Christ. Icon Production. 2004. [videorecording]. On Order
Grass, Gunter. The Tin Drum. NY: Vintage Books, 1990 PT2613. R338 B5513 1990
Griffith, D. W. The Birth of a Nation. St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada: Madacy Entertainment Group, 1997.
PN1997 .B573 1997. [videorecording].
Harris, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs. CA: Orion Home Video, 1991. PN1997 .S57178 1991
[videorecording].
Karolides, Nicholas, J. and Ken Wachsberger. Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds. Facts on File, 2011.
Z658 .U5 K37 2011 On Order (2006 ed. @Pecos)
Ladenson, Elisabeth. Dirt for Art’s Sake: books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2007. PQ295 .C47 L33 2007
Lee, Spike. Do the Right Thing. CA: Universal City Studios, 1997. PN1997 .D5223 2001 PT 1-2.
[videorecording].
Moore, Michael. Fahrenheit 9/11. CA: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 1997. PN1997 .F265 2004
[videorecording].
Morrison, Toni. Burn this Book: Pen writers speak out on the Power of the Word. New York, NY: HarperStudio,
2009. Z657 .B935 2009 On Order
Neeson, Liam. Schindler’s List. CA: Universal. 2004. PN1997 .S3743 2004 [videorecording].
Ross, Val. You can't read this: forbidden books, lost writing, mistranslations, and codes. Montreal: Tundra
Books, 2006. On Order
Sova, Dawn B. Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds. Facts on File, 2011. PN56 .E7 S68 2011
On Order (2006 ed. @Pecos)
Sova, Dawn B. Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds. Facts on File, 2006. Z658 .U5 S69 2022
On Order (2006 ed. @Pecos)
Wartzman, Rick. Obscene in the extreme: the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: Public Affairs, 2008. PS3537 .T3234 G895 2008. [electronic resource].
Waters, John. This film is not yet rated. Santa Monica, CA: Genius Entertainment, 2007.
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PN1997 .T557 2007. [videorecording].Wiegand, Shirley A. Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Tucson Unified School District Banned Book List
Allende, Isabel. Zorro: A Novel. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Alexie, Sherman. Ten Little Indians. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2004
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1989.
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. New York, NY: New
Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990.
Bjorkquist, Elena Diaz. Suffer Smoke. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2001.
Carlson, Lori Marie. Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States. Henry
Holt and Company, 2005. On Order
Castillo, Ana. Loverboys. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, & Company, 2008.
Garcia, Diana. When Living Was a Labor Camp. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Mehta, Deepa. Earth. NY: New Yorker Video, 1999. [videorecording] On Order
Mehta, Deepa. Fire. NY: New Yorker Video, 1998. PN1997 .F5425 1998 [videorecording]
Mehta, Deepa. Water. CA: TCF Home Entertainment, 1997. PN1997 .W384 2006 [videorecording]
Munoz, Manuel. Zigzagger: Stories. Evanston, ILL: Northwestern University Press, 2003. On Order
Pena, Matt de la. Mexican White Boy. Ember, 2010. On Order
Revueltas, Rosaura. Oak Forest, IL: Salt of the earth MPI Home Video, 1997. PN1997 .S145 1987
[videorecording]
Rosales, F. Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights. Houston, TX: Pinata Books, 2007.
Valdez, Luis. Zoot Suit and Other Plays. Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1992. On Order
Urrea, Luis Alberto. Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press,
2002. On Order
Yolen, Jane. Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories. Sandpiper, 2001.
Zinn, Howard. Voices of a People’s History of the United States. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2009.
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Webliography
When using web sites, you must verify the information for reliability and credibility.
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
http://www.azlibrary.gov/cdt/intell.aspx
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
http://www.abffe.org
American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ala.org/offices/oif
Campaign Against Censorship
http://www.dlas.org.uk/
Center for Constitutional Rights
http://ccrjustice.org/
Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking
http://www.celtlink.org
International Convent on Civil and Political Rights
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm
National Coalition Against Censorship
http://www.ncac.org
Project Censored
www.projectcensored.org
World Press Freedom Committee
http://www. wpfc.org
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