Documentary Dilemmas

by Carolyn Anderson, Thomas W. Benson, Thomas W Benson

A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security.

Titicut Follies

is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315181
• ISBN13: 9780809315185
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"