Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Hays, the fifties
Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
At least in the US, the censorship of movies, and also comics
post-EC,
was all industry self-censorship. Basically, those industries
were far
too wimpy to stand up and wrap themselves in the first
ammendment that
the publishing industry takes for granted (let's see what
happens with
the Palladin Press case). This is furthered by the
concentration of
ownership in those industries, which makes it in their best
economic
interest to keep out smaller upstarts who might make a name
through
sensationalism. They can be kept in line by having industry
guidelines
shoved down their throats with the help of distributors who
refuse to
carry non-approved movies or comics.
It reminds me, though, when I was growing up, my parents let
me openly
read books of movies I was not allowed to see. After having
seen many
of those moives later, I can truthfully say that the boks
were far more
graphic and explicit.
Mark
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