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Freedom of the screen : legal challenges to state film censorship, 1915-1981 /
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 "prio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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-t |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 356 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813172644 0813172640 9780813134901 0813134900 081313840X 9780813138404 1283233185 9781283233187 9786613233189 6613233188 |