Item Detail
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17749
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14
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English
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"Scandalous Film" : The Campaign to Suppress Anti-Mormon Motion Pictures, 1911-12
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 2003
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29
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no.2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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42-76
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In 1911-12, a barrage of anti-Mormon films were produced and distributed in Europe and the United States. They included such films as "A Victim of the Mormons" and "The Mountain Meadows Massacre." Church leaders tried to "stem the tide" of anti-Mormon films by appealing for help from Utah non-Mormon businessmen and state and local government officials. This article draws on new sources heretofore ignored by previous scholarly studies. The showing of these films adversely impacted missionary work in England and America. This controversy enlightened Church leaders about the power of films for reaching and influencing large audiences.
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A Victim of the Mormons and The Danites : Images and Relics from Early Twentieth-Century Anti-Mormon Silent Films
Exhibiting Theology : James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20
Framing the Nation : Religion, Film, and American Belonging
Getting to Know the Place : Image and Experience
Isaac Russell : Mormon Muckraker and Secret Defender of the Church
Mormon cinema : Origins to 1956
Mormonism in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Restless Pilgrim : Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-day Saint History
Revivals and Reversals : The Struggle for Stability in the Twentieth Century
Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism
The Implications of Digital Technologies for the LDS Church and for Orthodox, Heterodox, and Post-Mormon Identity
The Mormon as Vampire : A Comparative Study of Winifred Graham's The Love Story of a Mormon, the Film Trapped by the Mormons, and Bram Stoker's Dracula
Utah in the Twentieth Century
What is Mormon Cinema? Defining the Genre -
A History of Latter-day Saint Screen Portrayals in the Anti-Mormon Film Era, 1905-1936
From Antagonism to Acceptance : Mormons and the Silver Screen
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormons and Gentiles : A History of Salt Lake City
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
'The Mormon Peril' : The Crusade against the Saints in Britain, 1910-1914
William Spry : Man of Firmness, Governor of Utah