Controlling Hollywood
304 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 Dec 1999
ISBN:9780813527079
Controlling Hollywood
Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era
Edited by Matthew H. Bernstein
SERIES:
Rutgers Depth of Field Series
Rutgers University Press
For every movie shown on the big screen, there exists a behind-the-scene story of regulation and control. What social factors determine which movies get made and shown? What is censored? And how have the standards of what is considered taboo changed over time?
Controlling Hollywood features ten innovative and accessible essays that examine some of the major turning points, crises, and contradictions affecting the making and showing of Hollywood movies from the 1910s through the early 1970s. The articles included here examine landmark legal cases; various self-regulating agencies and systems in the film industry (from the National Board of Review to the ratings system); and, external to Hollywood, the religious and social interest groups and government bodies that took a strong interest in film entertainment over the decades.
MATTHEW BERNSTEIN teaches film studies at Emory University. He is the author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent and co-editor of Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (Rutgers University Press). His reviews and essays have appeared in major film studies journals.
A capacity for evil : the 1915 Supreme Court mutual decision / Garth S. Jowett
Moral coercion, or The National Board of Censorship plunders the vice films / Shelley Stamp
The King of Kings and the czar of all the rushes / Richard Malthy
Industry self-regulation and the problem of textual determination / Lea Jacobs
Beyond sex and violence / Ruth Vasey
Blacks, loyalty, and motion picture propaganda in World War II / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black
A tale of three cities, the banning of Scarlet Street / Matthew Bernstein
Controversy has probably destroyed forever the context / Ellen Draper
A good business proposition / Jeff Smith
The stigma of X: adult cinema and the institution of the MPAA ratings system / Justin Wyatt
Moral coercion, or The National Board of Censorship plunders the vice films / Shelley Stamp
The King of Kings and the czar of all the rushes / Richard Malthy
Industry self-regulation and the problem of textual determination / Lea Jacobs
Beyond sex and violence / Ruth Vasey
Blacks, loyalty, and motion picture propaganda in World War II / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black
A tale of three cities, the banning of Scarlet Street / Matthew Bernstein
Controversy has probably destroyed forever the context / Ellen Draper
A good business proposition / Jeff Smith
The stigma of X: adult cinema and the institution of the MPAA ratings system / Justin Wyatt
