LEADER 04281nam 2200757 450 001 9910781115703321 005 20230612051639.0 010 $a1-4426-9182-4 010 $a1-4426-8863-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442688636 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019311 035 $a(OCoLC)632170163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10381952 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478574 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11320439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478574 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10434816 035 $a(PQKB)10317598 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430818 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268169 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672637 035 $a(DE-B1597)465340 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946379 035 $a(OCoLC)944176660 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442688636 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672637 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258294 035 $a(OCoLC)958572485 035 $a(OCoLC)1320962611 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106116 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019311 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMiracles & sacrilege $eRoberto Rossellini, the Church and film censorship in Hollywood /$fWilliam Bruce Johnson 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (537 p.) 311 $a0-8020-9493-7 311 $a0-8020-9307-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a'A business pure and simple' -- The church, 'modernism, ' and 'Americanism' -- A church of immigrants -- A new Catholic-American culture -- Protestantism Balkanized -- Reining in Hollywood -- The Production Code -- The Legion of Decency -- The Breen Office -- The Paramount Case -- Cocktails and communism -- New realities -- Visions of Mary -- Mary or communism -- The priest as public figure -- 'Woman further defamed' -- 'A sense of decency and good morals' -- 'The law knows no heresy' -- In the Supreme Court -- Candour and shame. 330 $a"Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the court ultimately chose to abandon its own long-standing determination that film was merely a 'business' unworthy of free-speech rights, declaring that the First Amendment barred government from banning any film as 'sacrilegious.'" "Using legal briefs, affidavits, and other court records, as well as letters, memoranda, and other archival materials to elucidate what was at issue in the case, William Bruce Johnson also analyses the social, cultural, and religious elements that form the background of this complex and hard-fought controversy, focusing particularly on the fundamental role played by the Catholic Church in the history of film censorship." "Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses why it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it. The court's decision was not only a milestone in the law of church-state relations, but paved the way for a succession of later decisions that gradually established a firm legal basis for freedom of expression in the arts."--Jacket. 606 $aMotion pictures$xCensorship$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aFreedom of speech$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church 607 $aUSA$2swd 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xCensorship$xHistory. 615 0$aFreedom of speech$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church. 676 $a791.430973 700 $aJohnson$b William Bruce$01577416 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781115703321 996 $aMiracles & sacrilege$93856007 997 $aUNINA