Sociology of Hollywood - Gerardo Marti - Davidson College - 2011

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Censorship and the
Moral Concern for
Influence.
Dr. Marti, Soc 380 Seminar
Hill and Gibson, Chapter 11.
Richard Maltby. 2003. Hollywood Cinema. Second Edition. Blackwell.
Chapter 3, “Entertainment 2.”
Gerardo Marti. 2008. Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a
Los Angeles Church. Rutgers. Chapter 3, “Love and Hate between Hollywood
and Christianity,” and Chapter 4, “Save the World, Starting in Hollywood.”
From: Matthew Bernstein (ed.). 1999. Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and
Regulation in the Studio Era.
-- Jowett, Garth S. “‘A Capacity for Evil’: The 195 Supreme Court Mutual
Decision.” (note religious factors) (R)
-- Richard Maltby. “The King of Kings and the Czar of All the Rushes: The
Propriety of the Christ Story.” (note religious factors) (R)
Recommended: From: W. R. Robinson (ed.). 1967. Man and the Movies.
Louisiana State University Press.
-- Robinson, “The Movies, Too, will Make You Free.” (R)
Recommended: Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund. 2003. The Inquisition in
Hollywood: Poplitics in the Film Community, 1930-1960, New Edition with
New Introduction. University of Illinois Press.
Recommended: Annette Kuhn. 1988. Cinema, Censorship, and Sexuality,
1909-1925 (Cinema and Society). Routledge.
Book Report (option 1): J. Lewis. 2000. Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the
Struggle for Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry. New York
University Press.
Book Report (option 2): John C. Lyden. 2003. Film as Religion: Myths,
Morals, and Rituals. New York University Press.
Book Report (option 3): Gregory D. Black, Kenneth Short, Garth Jowett, and
David Culbert (eds.). 1996. Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics,
and the Movies (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication).
Cambridge University Press.
Book Report (option 4): Gregory D. Black. 1998. The Catholic Crusade against
the Movies, 1940-1975. Cambridge University Press.
Book Report (option 5): Steven J. Ross. 1999. Working Class Hollywood.
Princeton University Press.
Pre-Discussion
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