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Book The Federal Courts and the Motion Picture Industry

Download or read book The Federal Courts and the Motion Picture Industry written by Max Wesley Turner and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mechanical Witness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis-Georges Schwartz
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-09-24
  • ISBN : 0199718032
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book Mechanical Witness written by Louis-Georges Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence. Schwartz moves from the earliest employment of film in the courts of the 1920s to the notious 1991 Rodney Kind video, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technologies and contributed to the growing influence of visual media as a dominant mode of knowledge formation. At the same time, film and video in juridical contexts has developed a distinct theoretical legacy. The particular qualities of film as evidence both resonate with and contradict existing scholarship-focusing on economic, social, or aesthetic factors-which hitherto has defined film's status and cultural contribution. In the context of a trial, the possible meanings of a film change from its meanings when shown in a movie theater or broadcast on television, yet the public (and cinema scholars) tend to assume that the two are the same. Mechanical Witness demonstrates that we must understand evidentiary film and video's institutional specificity if we are to understand the full effects of motion picture technologies on our culture. This study sets the terms for a long overdue assessment of how the entertainment industry has shaped our film viewing practices, the place of moving picture evidence in the courtroom, and the social and cultural consequences of these intertwined histories.

Book Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry

Download or read book Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry written by Michael Conant and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed Investigation of the Motion picture Industry

Download or read book Proposed Investigation of the Motion picture Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 142 and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moral Rights and the Motion Picture Industry

Download or read book Moral Rights and the Motion Picture Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motion Pictures

Download or read book Motion Pictures written by Donald Young and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Miracle Case

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  • Author : Laura Wittern-Keller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Miracle Case written by Laura Wittern-Keller and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Supreme Court's unanimous 1952 decision in favor of a film exhibitor who had been denied a license to show the controversial Italian film, Il Miracolo. The ruling was a watershed event in the history of film censorship, ushering in a new era of mature--and sophisticated--American filmmaking.

Book The American Movie Industry

Download or read book The American Movie Industry written by Gorham Anders Kindem and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seventeen essays make up a history of the American film industry. Because film-making entails a special blend of economic and artistic endeavor, Kindem has chosen contributions from experts in a variety of fields--business, law, mass communications, and cinema studies. The organization of this anthology is both chronological and topical. The first three parts of the book basically follow the history of the film industry's marketing strategies, structural changes, and product innovations: from exhibition in Kinetoscope arcades to film "acts" in vaudeville, Nickelodeons, and movie palaces; from states' rights marketing schemes to block booking and chain-store exhibition strategies; from a production and distribution monopoly based on the pooling of major patents to an oligopoly of produc­tion, distribution, and exhibition firms; and from the rise of feature films, the star system, and the studio system to Hollywood's con­versions to sound and color. The fourth through sixth parts examine film regulation and censorship, film's inter­action with television, and America's role in the international film industry. The diversity of methods and perspectives in this anthol­ogy are representative of the field, suggesting that the history of the American film indus­try is really a collection of histories, not a monolithic, single-strand chronology of events.

Book The Public and the Motion Picture Industry

Download or read book The Public and the Motion Picture Industry written by William Marston Seabury and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion picture Industry

Download or read book Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion picture Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee to Investigate Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion-Picture Industry and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of the Motion Picture Industry

Download or read book The Law of the Motion Picture Industry written by Gustavns A. Rogers and published by Littlefield Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Law Of The Motion Picture Industry - By G. A. Rogers

Book Motion Pictures  a Study in Social Legislation

Download or read book Motion Pictures a Study in Social Legislation written by Donald Young and published by Jerome S. Ozer Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Federal Government and the Motion Picture Industry

Download or read book The Federal Government and the Motion Picture Industry written by William Ward Foshay and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hollywood Trust

Download or read book The Hollywood Trust written by Kia Afra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the film industry was establishing itself at the start of the twentieth century, trade associations played a pivotal role in the emergence of the studio system. These producer-distributor trade associations were forums for internal and external conflicts, as well as the true sources of influence and power in early Hollywood. In The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System, Kia Afra provides a detailed account of three successive trade organizations from 1915 to 1928. By examining the Motion Picture Board of Trade, the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry (NAMPI), and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), Afra outlines the relationships of power in Hollywood’s early years, asking questions such as: How and why did the studio system come about, and what were the industrial and institutional forces that impacted Hollywood’s development? In order to answer these crucial questions, The Hollywood Trust explores the role played by film industry trade associations in navigating important issues facing the burgeoning studio system, including censorship, public relations, trade practices, government regulation, film distribution, labor conflicts, taxes and tariffs, and exhibitor opposition. A vital look at an under-reported aspect of the studio system, this volume fills a gap in the history of the American film industry. As such The Hollywood Trust will be of particular interest to scholars of film history, as well as those concerned with cultural history and the political economics of entertainment.

Book Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda

Download or read book Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda written by Jay Douglas Steinmetz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907–1927, Jay Douglas Steinmetz provides an original and detailed account of the political developments that shaped the American Film Industry in the silent years. In the 1900s and 1910s, the American film industry often embraced the arguments of film free speech and extolled the virtues of propagandistic cinema—the visual art of persuasion seen as part and parcel of deliberative democracy. The development of American cinema in these years was formatively shaped by conflicts with another industry of cultural consumption: liquor. Exhibitors battled with their competitors, the ubiquitous saloon, while film producers often attacked the immorality of drink with explosive propaganda on the screen. But the threat of censorship and economic regulation necessitated control and mastery over the social power of the cinema (its capacity to influence the public through the visualization of ideas) not an open medium of expression or an explicitly political instrument of molding public opinion. By the early 1920s, big producer-distributors based in Southern California sidelined arguments for film free speech and tamped down the propagandistic possibilities of the screen. Through their trade association, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, headed by Republican insider Will H. Hays, the emerging moguls of Hollywood negotiated government regulation, prohibition, and the insurgency of the Ku Klux Klan in the turbulent 1920s. A complex and interconnected work of political history, this volume also uncovers key aspects in the development of modern free speech, propaganda in American political culture, the modern Republican Party, cultural developments leading up to prohibition, and the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. This work will be of particular interest to film and political historians interested in social movements, economic development, regulation, and the evolution of consumer capitalism in the early 20th century.

Book The Law of Motion Pictures  Including the Law of the Theatre

Download or read book The Law of Motion Pictures Including the Law of the Theatre written by Louis D. Frohlich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Motion Pictures, Including the Law of the Theatre: Treating of the Various Rights of the Author, Actor, Professional Scenario Writer, Director, Producer, Distributor, Exhibitor and the Public, With Chapters on Unfair Competition, and Copyright Protection in the U. S., G. B. And Her Colonial Possessions Notwithstanding the growth of this branch of the amusement life of the nation and of the importance of the law peculiar to it, no attempt has been made, so far as we know, to collect the decisions and to point out the general principles of law which have been developed by the courts with reference thereto. To give such a statement of the motion picture law has 'been our object. We have collected every available decision of the State and Federal Courts, as well as of the Courts of England and Canada relating to motion pictures. We have also collected all the more important decisions with reference to the theatre and literary property in general, as many of the principles established in those branches of the law apply to motion pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Guidebook to Film

Download or read book Guidebook to Film written by Ronald Gottesman and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1972 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: