Download or read book Movies in Society sex Crime and Censorship written by Mark Koenigil and published by New York : R, Speller. This book was released on 1962 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Movie Censorship and American Culture written by Francis G. Couvares and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of public outrage over "indecent" nickelodeon shows, Americans have worried about the power of the movies. The eleven essays in this book examine nearly a century of struggle over cinematic representations of sex, crime, violence, religion, race, and ethnicity, revealing that the effort to regulate the screen has reflected deep social and cultural schisms. In addition to the editor, contributors include Daniel Czitrom, Marybeth Hamilton, Garth Jowett, Charles Lyons, Richard Maltby, Charles Musser, Alison M. Parker, Charlene Regester, Ruth Vasey, and Stephen Vaughn. Together they make it clear that censoring the movies is more than just a reflex against "indecency," however defined. Whether censorship protects the vulnerable or suppresses the creative, it is part of a broader culture war that breaks out recurrently as Americans try to come to terms with the market, the state, and the plural society in which they live.
Download or read book Censored Hollywood written by Frank Miller and published by Turner Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex and violence have been part of films right from the start. Guns were brandished in the first widely-viewed movie, The Great Train Robbery. Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck are a few of the stars whose early roles, while modest by today's standards, garnered backlash from critics and the public alike. Here is the history of Hollywood's notorious Production Code, the film industry's attempts at self-regulation, and the development of the present-day rating system. Examines how film censorship reflects the morals, sexuality, and politics prevalent in society during each decade of the past century, and explores how violence has replaced sex as the target of censorship today. Photos.
Download or read book Sex and Violence written by Tom Pollard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex and Violence examines the history and social dynamics of film censorship in the United States. It examines censorship controversies throughout film history, from the beginning of cinema in the 1890s to the present. The book focuses both on formal censorship systems, including state and local censorship boards and industry self-regulation efforts, to unofficial censorship rendered by pressure groups and powerful social movements. It probes beneath the official rhetoric and explanations, revealing sensitive, festering controversies. The book critically examines dozens of Hollywood's most controversial (and interesting) movies, focusing on recurring issues and censorship themes. The book reveals the social and political processes of vetting films and their effect on film form and content. In addition, it examines the use of sexuality and violence in movies and the effects of movie censorship on those issues. Finally, it analyzes and makes recommendations for dramatic changes in motion picture ratings.
Download or read book Bad Women written by Janet Staiger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On female sexual morality
Download or read book Policing Cinema written by Lee Grieveson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles. Tracing the discourses and practices of cultural and political elites and the responses of the nascent film industry, Grieveson reveals how these interactions had profound effects on the shaping of film content, form, and, more fundamentally, the proposed social function of cinema: how cinema should function in society, the uses to which it might be put, and thus what it could or would be. Policing Cinema develops new perspectives for the understanding of censorship and regulation and the complex relations between governance and culture. In this work, Grieveson offers a compelling analysis of the forces that shaped American cinema and its role in society.
Download or read book Hollywood Censored written by Gregory D. Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a series of sex scandals rocked the film industry in 1922, movie moguls hired Will Hays to clear the image of movies. Hays tried a variety of ways to regulate movies before adopting what became known as the production code. Written in 1930 by a St Louis priest, the code stipulated that movies stress proper behaviour, respect for government, and 'Christian values'. The Catholic Church reinforced these efforts by launching its Legion of Decency in 1934. Intended to force Hays and Hollywood to censor films, the Legion of Decency engineered the appointment of Joseph Breen as head of the Production Code Administration. For the next three decades, Breen, Hays, and the Catholic Legion of Decency virtually controlled the content of all Hollywood films.
Download or read book Obscenity and Film Censorship written by Bernard Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and remain a crucial point of reference for discussions on obscenity and censorship. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, and with a specially commissioned preface written by Onora O'Neill, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this abridged edition of Bernard Williams's Report presents all the main findings and arguments of the full report, central to which is the application of Mill's 'harm principle' and the conclusion that restrictions are out of place where no harm can be reasonably thought to be done.
Download or read book Sex and Violence written by Leslie Thomas Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Movies and Society written by Ian Charles Jarvie and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1986 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pornography and Censorship written by David Copp and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Films for the Colonies written by Tom Rice and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism.
Download or read book Movies in Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex Sensibility written by Marcia Pally and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continuing heated debate in the U.S. over censorship and the freedom of speech and expression, Pally examines the growing impulse to blame images for society's deeply-rooted ills. An evocative and extensively researched text that asks important questions.
Download or read book Report of the Enquiry Committee on Film Censorship written by India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Enquiry Committee on Film Censorship and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Do You Draw the Line written by Walter Berns and published by Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his general introduction to this volume, Victor Cline has listed traditional arguments against censorship, noting, however, that in our body of law we have with some unanimity made a few important exceptions to free speech (e.g., when we prohibit it, as in perjury, false advertising, and in similar instances).
Download or read book Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship written by Great Britain. Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
