Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures : : Film and the First Amendment / / Jeremy Geltzer.
From the earliest days of cinema, scandalous films such as The Kiss (1896) attracted audiences eager to see provocative images on screen. With controversial content, motion pictures challenged social norms and prevailing laws at the intersection of art and entertainment. Today, the First Amendment p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD THE HONORABLE ALEX KOZINSKI CHIEF JUDGE OF THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Censoring the Cinema
- 1 BOXING, PORN, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MOVIE CENSORSHIP
- 2 THE RISE OF SALACIOUS CINEMA
- 3 STATE REGULATIONS EMERGE
- 4 MUTUAL AND THE CAPACITY FOR EVIL
- 5 WAR, NUDITY, AND BIRTH CONTROL
- 6 SELF-REGULATION REEMERGES
- 7 MIDNIGHT MOVIES AND SANCTIONED CINEMA
- 8 SOUND ENTERS THE DEBATE
- 9 TENSION INCREASES BETWEEN FREE SPEECH AND STATE CENSORSHIP
- 10 THREATS FROM ABROAD AND DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES
- PART II Freedom of the Screen
- 11 OUTLAWS AND MIRACLES
- 12 STATE CENSORSHIP STATUTES ON THE DEFENSE
- 13 DEVIL IN THE DETAILS Film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments
- PART III Dirty Words, Filthy Pictures, and Where to Find Them
- 14 DIRTY WORDS Profanity and the Patently Offensive
- 15 FILTHY PICTURES Obscenity from Nudie Cuties to Fetish Films
- 16 THE PORNO CHIC From Danish Loops to Deep Throat
- 17 JUST NOT HERE Content Regulation through Zoning
- PART IV Censorship Today
- 18 IS CENSORSHIP NECESSARY?
- 19 THE POLITICS OF PROFANITY
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX