Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Censoring the Cinema
  • 1. Boxing, Porn, and the Beginnings of Movie Censorship
  • 2. The Rise of Salacious Cinema
  • 3. State Regulations Emerge
  • 4. Mutual and the Capacity for Evil
  • 5. War, Nudity, and Birth Control
  • 6. Self-Regulation Reemerges
  • 7. Midnight Movies and Sanctioned Cinema
  • 8. Sound Enters the Debate
  • 9. Tension Increases between Free Speech and State Censorship
  • 10. Threats from Abroad and Domestic Disturbances
• Part II: Freedom of the Screen
  • 11. Outlaws and Miracles
  • 12. State Censorship Statutes on the Defense
  • 13. Devil in the Details: Film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments
• Part III: Dirty Words, Filthy Pictures, and Where to Find Them
  • 14. Dirty Words: Profanity and the Patently Offensive
  • 15. Filthy Pictures: Obscenity from Nudie Cuties to Fetish Films
  • 16. The Porno Chic: From Danish Loops to Deep Throat
  • 17. Just Not Here: Content Regulation through Zoning
• Part IV: Censorship Today
  • 18. Is Censorship Necessary?
  • 19. The Politics of Profanity
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index

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"Dirty Words tells the inside story of Hollywood's fight for freedom of speech. It's filled with great characters-from moviemakers who pushed the edge to the censors who pushed back." -- Garry Marshall "Dirty Words Filthy Pictures's scope is impressively broad, and to the best of my personal knowledge virtually complete; it appears to leave no pertinent censorship situation unmentioned and makes fascinating reading. This book should be the ultimate resource for information regarding film censorship for some time to come." -- E. Leonard Rubin, Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law, John Marshall Law School, and former Adjunct Professor of Copyright Law, Northwestern University School of Law. Former Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary for Playboy Enterprises. Currently in private practice at the Chic

About the Author

JEREMY GELTZER is an author and entertainment and intellectual property attorney who has worked for major movie studios, including Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, and Lionsgate. Prior to his legal career, Geltzer was a writer and producer at Turner Classic Movies. He has also taught film history and theory at Georgia State University and lectured on issues of copyright and fair use.

Reviews

"An important reference book for scholars of the law and cinema."
*Kirkus Reviews*

"… clarity, combined with scholarly authority and a graceful narrative style…makes Jeremy Geltzer’s Dirty Words And Filthy Pictures: Film And The First Amendment so compelling… valuable both as a specialized movie-­history text and a meditation on morality, freedom of expression, changing notions of what constitutes the scandalous, and how, well, nothing ever stays the same."
*The New York Times Book Review*