Dirty Words And Filthy Pictures: Film And The First Amendment

Boxing, porn, and the beginnings of movie censorship -- The rise of salacious cinema -- State regulations emerge -- Mutual and the capacity for evil -- War, nudity, and birth control -- Self-regulation reemerges -- Midnight movies and sanctioned cinema -- Sound enters the debate -- Tension increases between free speech and state censorship -- Threats from abroad and domestic disturbances -- Outlaws and miracles -- State censorship statutes on the defense -- Devil in the details : film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments -- Dirty words : profanity and the patently offensive -- Filthy pictures : obscenity from nudie cuties to fetish films -- The porno chic : from Danish loops to Deep throat -- Just not here : content regulation through zoning -- Is censorship necessary? -- The politics of profanity

• | Author: Jeremy Geltzer
• | Publisher: University of Texas Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1477307435
• | ISBN-13: 9781477307434