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Author: Edward De Grazia
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of censorship in America, with particular reference to films such as 'The birth of a Nation' (D.W. Griffith), The Exorcist, I am curious, Yellow, 'Last Tango in Paris' (Marlon Brando, Bernardo Bertolucci), Ecstasy (Exstase, Hedy Lamarr).
Author: Stephen Tropiano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0879104546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the “cinematic envelope” with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned, censored, and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded “controversial” at the time of their release due to explicit language, nudity, graphic sex, violence, and their treatment of “adult” subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation, Anatomy of a Murder, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Passion of the Christ.
Author: David Kerekes
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the phenomenal rise of video culture and its alleged associations with criminal activity, Containing studies of murder cases supposedly influenced by films, interviews with the video underground producers, and insightful commentary on contentious movies, See No Evil is an exhaustive and startling overview of Britain's video nasty culture. The eagerly awaited follow up to the best selling Killing for Culture.
Author: Gregory D. Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521565929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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.
Author: Peter E. Mudie
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780868405124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ubu film group, Australia's first experimental filmmakers and distributors. A reference for devotees of film, theatre, those interested in the arts, music and graphic design.
Author: Dawn B. Sova
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780816040179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlphabetically arranged entries offer detailed histories of 125 films, providing production data, cast information, plot summaries, censorship histories, and profiles of directors.
Author: Jeremy Geltzer
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1476630127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were censored by men like Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, the terror of Chicago's cinemas, and Myrtelle Snell, the Alabama administrator who made the slogan "Banned in Birmingham" famous. Censorship continues today, with Utah's case against Deadpool (2016) pending in federal court and Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013) versus the Texas Film Commission. This authoritative state-by-state account covers the history of film censorship and the battle for free speech in America.
Author: Aubrey Malone
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0786489391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCensorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency--culminating in a new age of restrictiveness in the movies. Such powerful arbiters of public taste as Will H. Hays of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and Joseph Breen of the Production Code Association fomented an era whereby films with contentious material were severely censored or even condemned. This held sway until rebellious filmmakers like Otto Preminger challenged the system in the 1950s, eventually resulting in the abandonment of the old regime in favor of the contemporary "G" through "NC-17" ratings system.
Author: Eric Smoodin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1478007532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Paris in the Dark Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on a wealth of journalistic sources, Smoodin recounts the ways films moved through the city, the favored stars, and what it was like to go to the movies in a city with hundreds of cinemas. In a single week in the early 1930s, moviegoers might see Hollywood features like King Kong and Frankenstein, the new Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier movies, and any number of films from Italy, Germany, and Russia. Or they could frequent the city's ciné-clubs, which were hosts to the cinéphile subcultures of Paris. At other times, a night at the movies might result in an evening of fascist violence, even before the German Occupation of Paris, while after the war the city's cinemas formed the space for reconsolidating French film culture. In mapping the cinematic geography of Paris, Smoodin expands understandings of local film exhibition and the relationships of movies to urban space.
Author: Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9780252062506
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