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vicious than pictures; and mentioned the details given in
the cases of John Dillinger and Bruno Richard Hauptmann* He
further attacked the press itself for its unnecessary emphasis
on indiscretions of movie stars.
He compared censorship to Prohibition which he called
a villainous and unnatural law,.and observed that the
illegal bootlegger during that era had come to be regarded
as the champion of liberty. Pictures, he claimed, acted
merely to mirror the degeneration of a civilization, not to
initiate it; and illustrated this claim with examples of the
arts of the ancient Greeks, the Renaissance and the Elizabethan
periods. H. . . the public is capable of choosing its
own screen entertainment without the guidance of self-appointed
moralists. . . Robinson stated.
Pursuing the matter of adverse publicity, he gave the
reasoning of the reformers on the matter of actresses’
virtues: If a woman had been twice divorced, how could she
be convincingly virtuous on the screen? On the other hand,
if she gave a convincing portrayal of an immoral woman on
the screen, how could she be virtuous in life? He criticized
newspapers for stressing the femininity of actresses rather
than their acting ability, and pointed out that little was
known of the private lives of such stage actresses as
56 Ibid., p. 37
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| Title | An analysis of civilian censorship of motion pictures in the United States. - Page 238 |
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| Full text | 231 vicious than pictures; and mentioned the details given in the cases of John Dillinger and Bruno Richard Hauptmann* He further attacked the press itself for its unnecessary emphasis on indiscretions of movie stars. He compared censorship to Prohibition which he called a villainous and unnatural law,.and observed that the illegal bootlegger during that era had come to be regarded as the champion of liberty. Pictures, he claimed, acted merely to mirror the degeneration of a civilization, not to initiate it; and illustrated this claim with examples of the arts of the ancient Greeks, the Renaissance and the Elizabethan periods. H. . . the public is capable of choosing its own screen entertainment without the guidance of self-appointed moralists. . . Robinson stated. Pursuing the matter of adverse publicity, he gave the reasoning of the reformers on the matter of actresses’ virtues: If a woman had been twice divorced, how could she be convincingly virtuous on the screen? On the other hand, if she gave a convincing portrayal of an immoral woman on the screen, how could she be virtuous in life? He criticized newspapers for stressing the femininity of actresses rather than their acting ability, and pointed out that little was known of the private lives of such stage actresses as 56 Ibid., p. 37 |
