Miracles and Sacrilege : : Robert Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood / / William Bruce Johnson.
Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Co...
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Johnson, William Bruce , author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Miracles and Sacrilege : Robert Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood / William Bruce Johnson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2008 1 online resource (448 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 'A Business Pure and Simple' -- 2. The Church, 'Modernism,' and 'Americanism' -- 3. A Church of Immigrants -- 4. A New Catholic-American Culture -- 5. Protestantism Balkanized -- 6. Reining In Hollywood -- 7. The Production Code -- 8. The Legion of Decency -- 9. The Breen Office -- 10. The Paramount Case -- 11. Cocktails and Communism -- 12. New Realities -- 13. Visions of Mary -- 14. Mary or Communism -- 15. The Priest as Public Figure -- 16. 'Woman Further Defamed' -- 17. 'A Sense of Decency and Good Morals' -- 18. 'The Law Knows No Heresy' -- 19. In the Supreme Court -- 20. Candour and Shame -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding determination that film comprised a mere 'business' unworthy of free-speech rights, declaring for the first time that the First Amendment barred government from banning any film as 'sacreligious.'Using legal briefs, affidavits, and other court records, as well as letters, memoranda, and other archival materials to elucidate what was at issue in the case, William Bruce Johnson also analyzes the social, cultural, and religious elements that form the background of this complex and hard-fought controversy, focusing particularly on the fundamental role played by the Catholic Church in the history of film censorship. Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it. The Court's decision was not only a milestone in the law of church-state relations, but it paved the way for a succession of later decisions which gradually established a firm legal basis for freedom of expression in the arts. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Freedom of speech United States History 20th century. Motion pictures Censorship United States History. Motion pictures Religious aspects Catholic Church. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780802094933 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688636 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442688636 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442688636.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 'A Business Pure and Simple' -- 2. The Church, 'Modernism,' and 'Americanism' -- 3. A Church of Immigrants -- 4. A New Catholic-American Culture -- 5. Protestantism Balkanized -- 6. Reining In Hollywood -- 7. The Production Code -- 8. The Legion of Decency -- 9. The Breen Office -- 10. The Paramount Case -- 11. Cocktails and Communism -- 12. New Realities -- 13. Visions of Mary -- 14. Mary or Communism -- 15. The Priest as Public Figure -- 16. 'Woman Further Defamed' -- 17. 'A Sense of Decency and Good Morals' -- 18. 'The Law Knows No Heresy' -- 19. In the Supreme Court -- 20. Candour and Shame -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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