Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures

Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781477307434
ISBN-13 : 1477307435
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Book Synopsis Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures by : Jeremy Geltzer

Download or read book Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures written by Jeremy Geltzer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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