Monthly Archives: November 2007

Censors of Cinema

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini Here’s a link to my review in Bookforum of two recent studies of censorship and film: William Bruce Johnson’s Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood and Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration.
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Norman Mailer, 1923-2007

Mailer and Germaine Greer in 1971. From the Guardian: “It was a quiet end to one of the loudest and most controversial voices in American letters.” From Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s astonishing Town Bloody Hall, comes this immortal bit of Mailer: “If you wish me to act the clown, I will take out my [...]
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