Freedom to Offend
Subtitle: How New York Remade Movie Culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: March 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780813124292
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; New York; Film & Video - History & Criticism; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Censorship; Film criticism; History; Motion pictures; New York (State)
Description: In the libertine 1970s, arguments supporting the right to see challenging films were twisted to provide intellectual cover for movies created solely to lure viewers with outrageous or titillating material. Haberski exposes the unquestioning defense of free expression as an absolutist approach that mirrors the censorial impulse found among the postwar era's restrictive moral guardians.