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Anti-film censorship cartoon published in The Film Mercury magazine, circa 1926. Public outcry over perceived immorality in Hollywood and the movies, as well as the growing number of city and state censorship boards, led the movie studios to fear that federal regulations were not far off; so they created, in 1922, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the ...
Thou Shalt Not, a 1940 photo by Whitey Schafer deliberately subverting some of the Code's strictures. In the 1920s, Hollywood was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic and political organizations.
Tongues Untied is a 1989 American video essay [1] [2] experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, [3] and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman. and more. [4] The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference."
Film censorship is the censorship of motion pictures, either through the excising of certain frames or scenes, or outright banning of films in their entirety. Film censorship typically occurs as a result of political or moral objections to a film's content; controversial content subject to censorship include the depiction of graphic violence, sexual situations, or racial themes.
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.
In the documentary, Ian Hill, bassist for heavy metal band Judas Priest, describes how the band’s music and shows were unconventional: “We always pushed the envelope every chance we had, and ...
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism [1] through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet.
A documentary exposing a network of far-right activists in the U.K. has been pulled from the BFI London Film Festival at the last minute over safety concerns. Due to the content of “Undercover ...