Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981 - Couverture rigide

Wittern-Keller, Laura

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813124514 ISBN 13 : 9780813124513

Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2008

Synopsis

Between 1907 and 1980, many state and local governments empowered motion picture censor boards with the legal authority to keep any movie they considered obscene, indecent, or harmful from being shown. Although the mainstream American film industry accepted the form of censorship known as "prior restraint," the independent distributors and exhibitors challenged the government censors in court. In Freedom of the Screen, Laura Wittern-Keller tells the story of those who fought prior restraint on movies. By drawing attention to this inequity -- film was the only medium so constricted by the 1950s -- the distributors pushed a reluctant judiciary to square its interpretation of movie expression with the rights of other media. As these legal interpretations gradually became more sympathetic to artistic freedom -- largely because of the independent distributors' lawsuits -- Hollywood was free to discard its outmoded restraints and deliver provocative, relevant movies to American audiences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laura Wittern-Keller is visiting assistant professor of history and public policy at the University at Albany (SUNY) and the recipient of the New York State Archives Award for Excellence in Research. She also lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with her husband.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University Press of Kentucky
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813124514
• ISBN 13: 9780813124513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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