Start Reading Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years Of Censored, Banned And Controversial Films (Limelight) Planned By Stephen Tropiano Released As Bound Copy

two reviews sensible one first, ultracondensed one second

YEARS OF MORAL PROGRESS

I imagine the worthies who campaigned against The Way French Bathing Girls Bathe, Hazing Affair in a Girls Boarding School and Its Dangerous to Tickle a Soubrette inmight have a few conniption fits if presented with Tumbling Doll of Fleshor The Human Centipede.

I think they might possibly question the notion of human moral progress as regards relations between the sexes, in particular, But those guys didnt bat an eyelid when all those horses were killed during the filming of the chariot races in Ben Hur.


So, hmm, what can we infer from that depiction of cruelty to animals is looked upon with horror by modern audiences who shrug boredly as women by the dozen get slaughtered in everincreasing realism and intensity.
So it goes.




This book is an entertaining and sometimes tiresomely repetitive because the same issues come up all the time and detailed account of the history of banned movies in the USA fromto.
The main topics covered are bad language, religion, violence, politics and sex and we get accounts of the movies which hit the headlines, some of which are forgotten now has anyone recently seen La Ronde, Salt of the Earth, The Game of Love, The Loversor I Am Curious YellowBig controversies in the day.
I did actually see the last one recently it was terrible but strangely the large amount of total nakedness was still surprising.


Its hard not to read this book with a harrumphing kind of impatience for all this antique fuddiduddity for example, here are some forbidden words and expressions listed in theamendment to the Motion Picture Production Code:

Alley cat
Bat applied to a woman
Chippie
Cocotte
Goose
Hold your hat
Nerts
Tomcat

But then you can get pulled up sharp by what wasnt considered beyond the pale, such as Griffithsmovie The Birth of a Nation in which the heroes yeah, thats right! are the Ku Klux Klan.
It was “controversial” in its day, but it wasnt banned,

This book misses what is most interesting about, say, the changes in the portrayal of sex and nudity on screen, by just skimming through a list of the prominent examples and never discussing in any kind of detail what brought about changes of attitude.
Its frustrating. But I think that if Mr Tropiano had tried to do that, his book would have been three times as big and he would have had to be a professor of psychosexual and political sociology and history, as well as a film buff, which is possibly asking quite a lot.
Its like American society progresses as doth the humble frog, It sits there glowering and not moving for ages, then suddenly LEAP it ends up fifteen feet away, From Baby Dollto Deep Throatwith only I Am Curious Yellow in between a

Swedish arthouse movie made in black amp white, only students ever saw it is a breathtaking jump.
Its like all the huffers and puffers, the decent cleanly righteous guys who would bring cases and convene public meetings and organise campaigns, had just melted away.
And this happens over and over, I want to know what happened to those guys did they give up or change their minds or what

I think possibly the answer is : maturity.
I dont really like this word, Ive always thought it applies to all those serious grownups and not to me thank you but now Ive found a definition, maybe a film would be released which pushed the boundaries, people would see it, they wouldnt all immediately commit murder or become drug addicts, the sky would not fall, society in general would sneak looks at each other and say well, maybe we can relax a bit about that thing.
Gay marriage is the current obsession, Its rolling through the legislatures of various countries, and people who hate the idea will gradually realise in the next few years that civilisation has not actually come to an end, and theyll say well, what was all the fuss about




THE JUICY OUTRAGE MASHUP ANOTHER KIND OF REVIEW a lot more fun


Girls in short frocks engaged in kicking a hat, there being at each attempt a liberal display of underclothing.
Theyre young, theyre in love, and they kill people, Through almost half of the picture the girls breasts, which are quite large and prominent, are shockingly emphasised, No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it, It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily, Im No Angel a story about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it! This film is denied a permit because it arouses the sexual desires of normal people.
Its my Baby Dolls birthday! The subject matter of this film is morally repellentit dwells almost without variation or relief upon carnal suggestiveness.
Squirming grossly as his thrillseeking sexstarved mole, So long as I am in the White House there will be no relaxation of the national effort to control and eliminate smut from our national life.
Loose clothing not properly fastened or ready to fall, This ban is a triumph of stupidity and antiintellectualism, as well as a great victory for the unholy alliance of ratbag feminists and repressive Christian right.
Climax Long and Enthusiastic and Too Blissful for Adjectives! Neither participant is physically attractive, and the spectacle of their prolonged pasturing on each others lips was hard to bear.
I dont think I ever saw him sober, The film that could only be made in South America where life is cheap! Taking hold of a womans limbs in a suggestive manner.
We object to the overtly expressed plea for an acceptance of homosexuality, almost to the point of suggesting that it may be made socially tolerable.
Horrible as it sounds, these two killers have fun! Honey, lets crash the car and make love in the back seat like they did in that movie.


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