Movie censorship and Virginia: an introduction -- The project of censorship: debating the movies in 1920s Virginia -- Censorship in black and white: the struggle to maintain racial hierarchies at the movies, 1920s-1930s -- The cultural politics of race and the Cold War -- The search for sexual deviance: regulating and contesting depictions of female sexuality on-screen -- Conclusion: Island in the sun and the demise of the censorship board -- Postcript: Regulating film in the age of the internet -- Appendix A: Board of Motion picture Censorship members -- Appendix B: Elimination records.