Children and the Movies
Subtitle: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780521041454
Subjects: Films, cinema; Media Studies; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; USA; Children's Studies; Mass Media - General; Children and motion pictures; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Social Science : Children's Studies
First sentence: This is the movement to fix and establish the status of the motion picture as a new public utility and to keep the channels of trade between the producer and the public open and free for all, to the end that the motion picture may become and remain a wholesome entertainment, at prices which will keep it within the reach of the great masses. . . .