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Freedom and entertainment : rating the movies in an age of new media / Stephen Vaughn.
LIBRA PN1993.5.U6 V38 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Ratings--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Violence in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Ratings.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 336 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- The first behind-the-scenes history of the American movie rating system.
- Contents:
- New leaders and a new system
- Sex, profanity, and violence
- The X rating and the home entertainment revolution
- The technology of special effects and the effects of screen violence
- Pornography
- The anti-pornography crusade
- Hollywood, drugs, and religion
- NC-17
- Television
- The digital future.
- Notes:
- Includes filmography (pages 273-280).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521852587
- 0521676541
- OCLC:
- 57493934
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