Annotated Bibliography: Film Censorship

1. This website gives a brief history of how American film censorship came into existence. It lists all the contributing factors, like religion, that have led to the conservative film censorship in the United States.
http://www.ncac.org/issues/film_censorship.cfm

2. The article gives a short yet precise explanation of how film censorship has evolved in the US. Although film censorship is technically not allowed, absolute right to the freedom of speech, economic pressure and moral pressure have created a system that ranks movies according to their level of obscenity. These rankings create age categories and have great influence on the success of the movie. This article also mentions the influence that religion has/ had on film censorship.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/593210/index.html

3. Definition and explanation of film censorship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship

4. This website is one of many that rates movies and gives brief explanations for these ratings. These websites seem to be quite popular amongst parents, that are interested in the movies that their children are watching. These websites are not exactly unbiased.
http://www.filmratings.com/

5. This website gives movie ratings for parents. This website is for parents from parents and rates movies according to appropriateness for children. The website directly criticizes the MPAA.
http://www.kids-in-mind.com/h/hangover.htm

6. This is the official website that rates movies in the US. The MPAA does not censor films but rates them according to age.
http://www.mpaa.org/AboutUs.asp

7. Wikipedia gave me an overview of what I was working with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States

8. This website talks about how Prizefighting in the early 1900’s led to censorship.
http://www.orbach.org/1897/


9. These two websites give current news on censorship issues around the world. They talk about things that were never published and are trying to fight against censorship.
http://www.bannedmagazine.com/
http://www.projectcensored.org/