Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films
This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to films that push the cinematic envelope with explicit language, nudity, sex, violence, or "adult" themes. Stephen Tropiano offers astute and accessible analysis of such films as The Birth of a Nation, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, and The Passion of the Christ.
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This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to films that push the cinematic envelope with explicit language, nudity, sex, violence, or "adult" themes. Stephen Tropiano offers astute and accessible analysis of such films as The Birth of a Nation, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, and The Passion of the Christ.
Ch. 1 Censorship and Silent Cinema, or Why a Kiss Is No Longer Just a Kiss 1Ch. 2 Movies, Morality, and the (Self-) Regulation of the Hollywood Film Industry 51Ch. 3 %@!%#@# - A Few Choice Words About Bad Language 103Ch. 4 Guns, Gangs, and Random Acts of Ultra-Violence 143Ch. 5 Sins of the Flesh: Sex and Nudity on Celluloid 189Ch. 6 A Hotbed of Controversy: Politics and Religion 231Afterword 263Appendix A "The Thirteen Points" Adopted by NAMPI (1921) 265Appendix B "The Formula" (1924) 267Appendix C The "Don'ts and Be Carefuls" of the MPPDA (1927) 269Appendix D The Motion Picture Production Code (1930) 271Appendix E Supplement to the Motion Picture Production Code (1930) - Reasons for the Code 277Appendix F The Legion of Decency 287Appendix G The Motion Picture Ratings System (1968) 291Appendix H The Motion Picture Production Code: Revisions of the Profanity Clause 295Appendix I Special Regulations on Crime in Motion Pictures (1938) 299Filmography 301Notes 309Selected Bibliography 349Index 351
