Author: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Charles Matthew Feldman
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.)
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: James Richard Rutland
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Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Author: Commission on Freedom of the Press
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: M. Alison Kibler
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative study, M. Alison Kibler uncovers, for the first time, powerful and concurrent campaigns by Irish, Jewish and African Americans against racial ridicule in popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Censoring Racial Ridicule explores how Irish, Jewish, and African American groups of the era resisted harmful representations in popular culture by lobbying behind the scenes, boycotting particular acts, and staging theater riots. Kibler demonstrates that these groups' tactics evolved and diverged over time, with some continuing to pursue street protest while others sought redress through new censorship laws. Exploring the relationship between free expression, democracy, and equality in America, Kibler shows that the Irish, Jewish, and African American campaigns against racial ridicule are at the roots of contemporary debates over hate speech.

Author: Lamar Taney Beman
Publisher: Jerome S. Ozer Publishers
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Jennifer Fronc
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477313958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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As movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the governmental regulation of film conceded that some entity—boards populated by trusted civic leaders, for example—needed to safeguard the public good. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (NB), a civic group founded in New York City in 1909, emerged as a national cultural chaperon well suited to protect this emerging form of expression from state incursions. Using the National Board's extensive files, Monitoring the Movies offers the first full-length study of the NB and its campaign against motion-picture censorship. Jennifer Fronc traces the NB's Progressive-era founding in New York; its evolving set of "standards" for directors, producers, municipal officers, and citizens; its "city plan," which called on citizens to report screenings of condemned movies to local officials; and the spread of the NB's influence into the urban South. Ultimately, Monitoring the Movies shows how Americans grappled with the issues that arose alongside the powerful new medium of film: the extent of the right to produce and consume images and the proper scope of government control over what citizens can see and show.