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Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted .

Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the . Supreme Court's decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle (1950). Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it found The Miracle sacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it.

Tracing the development of the Church in the United States, Johnson discusses the reasons it foundThe Miraclesacrilegious and how it attained the power to persuade civil authorities to ban it. The Court's decision was not only a milestone in the law of church-state relations, but it paved the way for a succession of later decisions which gradually established a firm legal basis for freedom of expression in the arts. eISBN: 978-1-4426-8863-6. Subjects: Film Studies.

William Bruce Johnson. The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court. Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.

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Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film. There is plenty of legal discussion of the 1915 Mutual Film case holding that films were not subject to First Amendment protection, the decision 37 years later that they were, and a number of cases in between. However, there is little of the back-and-forth argument over which side has the better position in a given case; the book offers much more than that. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2008. Miracles and sacrilege. 9780802093073 (bound : acid-free paper), 9780802094933 (pb.

As William Bruce Johnson notes in Miracles and Sacrilege, the . Miracles and Sacrilege, too, is more history than film analysis.

As William Bruce Johnson notes in Miracles and Sacrilege, the response was Capra-esque. Somewhere between seven and eleven million people signed their names in response to the rising scandals in the tabloids (see Fatty Arbuckle’s notorious downfall) and the blatant sexuality on the screen (see Barbara Stanwyck in anything before ’34). Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the . In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding determination that film comprised a mere 'business' unworthy of free-speech rights, declaring for the first time that the First Amendment barred government from banning any film as 'sacreligious.

Miracles and Sacrilege : Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood. by William Bruce Johnson.