Miracles and Sacrilege by William Bruce Johnson PAPERBACK 9780802094933

Miracles and Sacrilege\nby William Bruce Johnson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William Bruce Johnson\nTitle: Miracles and Sacrilege\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Film history, theory or criticism\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2008\nISBN-13: 9780802094933\nISBN-10: 0802094937\nRRP: \u00A335.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nMiracles 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-speec.