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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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