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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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