Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies

Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies
ISBN-10
0195387848
ISBN-13
9780195387841
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
298
Language
English
Published
2012-06-26
Publisher
OUP USA
Author
William D. Romanowski

Description

In Reforming Hollywood, William Romanowski tells the long and complex story of the relationship between Protestants of all stripes--from Episcopalians to evangelicals--and the American film industry. Drawing on personal interviews and previously unexamined primary sources, he chronicles Protestant efforts to exert influence on the industry and use movies to promote the moral health of the nation. At the same time, Romanowski shows, mainline Protestants were surprisingly averse to censorship, which they saw as intruding upon individual conscience and antithetical to American democracy--of which they saw themselves as the guardians.

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