FILM AND SOCIETY

PREFACE = ⅶ GUIDE TO RESEARCH = ⅸ INTRODUCTION = 1 Part One: FILMS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE The Rise and Place of the Motion Picture / TERRY RAMSAYE = 9 A Religion of Film / HENRY BRADFORD DARRACH, JR. = 15 Epilogue / RICHARD GRIFFITH ; ARTHUR MAYER = 23 Part Two: WHAT DOES THE AUDIENCE WANT? Shakespeare and the Cinema / ALLARDYCE NICOLL = 29 What Makes a Good Screen Story? / MERVYN LeROY = 32 Secret of Success / HAROLD HOBSON = 34 For Eggheads Only? / ARTHUR KNIGHT = 36 Part Three: DOES THE SCREEN REFLECT SOCIETY? The Modern Photoplay / IRVING THALBERG = 45 The American Film: 1929-48 / RICHARD GRIFFITH = 48 The Problem Film in America / RICHARD DYER MacCANN = 51 Hollywood the Dream Factory / HORTENSE POWDERMAKER = 60 The Movies / ERNIE PYLE = 62 The Lovely Art: Sound / GILBERT SELDES = 63 [Wilson] / JAMES AGEE = 65 Part Four: CAN THE SCREEN INFLUENCE SOCIETY? Propaganda and the Nazi War Film / SIEGFRIED KRACAUER = 71 Searchlight on Democracy / JOHN GRIERSON = 74 Movies and Propaganda / LEO ROSTEN = 78 The Movies and Political Propaganda / UPTON SINCLAIR = 82 Research: The Immature / MORTIMER ADLER = 85 Part Five: SHOULD THE SCREEN BE CONTROLLED? The Problem in Practical Philosophy / MORTIMER ADLER = 89 The Cinema and Society / ROGER MANVELL = 93 Reasons Underlying the General Principles [of The Motion Picture Production Code] / THE MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA = 99 Importance of the Entertainment Film / MARTIN QUIGLEY = 101 [The Miracle Case] = 103 Movies and Censorship / BOSLEY CROWTHER = 108 What Should We Do About the Crisis in Movie Morals?: The Answer: “Graded” Films / JOE HYAMS = 119 Motion Pictures and Juvenile Delinquency - THE SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, from = 121 Part Six: SHOULD FILM DISTRIBUTION OVERSEAS BE RESTRICTED? The Free Ride / NORMAN COUSINS = 131 Hollywood: America’s Travelling Salesman / ERIC JOHNSTON = 134 Hollywood Faces the World / RICHARD DYER MocCANN = 137 The Cinema as a Moral Leveller / GEORGE BERNARD SHAW = 140 [The Internationalized Film] / WILLIAM R. WILKERSON = 141 Universal Influences and Objectives of the Motion Pictures / JEAN BENOIT-LEVY = 143 Part Seven: SHOULD FILMS FOR TELEVISION BE CONTROLLED? Forgotten Clues to the TV Crisis / JACK GOULD = 147 Communications Act of 1934 = 151 “The People Own the Air” - TIME MAGAZINE = 154 The Bloodshot Eye / ROY HUGGINS = 156 Fabian Sole Survivor of “Bus Stop” Pileup / HAL HUMPHREY = 163 An Exclusive Interview ... E. William Henry - TELEFILM INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, from = 165 Television and Juvenile Delinquency - THE SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, from = 169 U.S. Television Abroad: Big New Business / JOHN TEBBEL = 172 SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CONTROLLED RESEARCH = 177 SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR LIBRARY RESEARCH = 179

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