The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court

by Laura Wittern-keller and Raymond J. Haberski Jr.

Book Overview

It was only a forty-minute foreign film, but it sparked a legal confrontation that has left its mark on America for more than half a century. Roberto Rossellini's Il Miracolo (The Miracle) is deceptively simple: a demented peasant woman is seduced by a stranger she believes to be Saint Joseph, is socially ostracized for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, but is finally redeemed through motherhood.

Although initially approved by state censors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700616195
• ISBN13: 9780700616190
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"