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The Absurdity of Obscenity
Jeremy Geltzer's "Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures" looks at the salacious movies that stretched the First Amendment and the censors that stifled them....
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Michael Sandlin
Michael Sandlin is a Houston, TX–based writer and critic whose writing on film and books has appeared in the Village Voice, Bookforum, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, and many other print and online publications.
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Pre-Code Hollywood Confidential
“Hollywood knew how to manipulate a crime,” writes Mann, “their scenarists had been doing it for years.”...