Miracles and Sacrilege: Robert Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood

by William Bruce Johnson

Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle (1950). 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802094937
• ISBN13: 9780802094933
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher