VES 71: Silent Cinema
VES 191g: Crime Media

Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth
Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). Reprinted with the permission of University of California Press.

Grieveson is reader in film studies and director of the graduate program in film studies at University College London. He has taught previously at the University of Exeter and at King’s College, London. He is the author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), which was awarded honorable mention in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award in 2005. A silent cinema historian with particular interests in governance, citizenship, and the formation of disciplinary studies, he is coeditor of three volumes: The Silent Cinema Reader (London: Routledge, 2004), with Peter Kramer; Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), with Peter Stanfield and Esther Sonnet; and Inventing Film Studies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), with Haidee Wasson. He is the author of numerous essays on aspects of American cinema history, including “Fighting films: race, morality, and the governing of cinema” (Cinema Journal, 38:1 (Fall 1998)), which was awarded the Society for Cinema Studies Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award in 1999 for outstanding essay in English language media studies. Grieveson is also co-principal investigator, with Colin MacCabe, of a major UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project entitled “Colonial cinema: moving images of the British Empire,” a project which both aims to digitally archive British colonial cinema spanning the twentieth-century and to organize scholarly gatherings to investigate these materials.