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Cinematic violence has been in films since the start of movie making. From Orson Wells tearing up his estranged wives room in Citizen Kane to Anthony Perkins slicing up Vivian Leigh in Psycho, violence has always been present in film in one form or another. It was not until the late sixties and seventies that such visionaries as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah, and William Friedken, to mention a few, came and put on film what was to become a trend in American cinema that would flourish until the present day. Graphic violence has become as important to film as the happy ending. The nineteen seventies was a time that filmmakers started to make extreme statements about our society and they often used extreme measures to achieve this. To understand violence in film it is first wise to understand the MPAA. Founded in 1922, The Motion Picture Association of America's home page on the World Wide Web explains it like this, "we are the trade association of the American film industry whom have broadened it's mandate over the years to reflect the diversity of an expanding industry." So in short, they say what can be put into a film and what cannot. It was not however until the late sixties that they st
Pornography in a Free Society, Hawkins, Zimring, a1988. " It is the extreme which the "bad guy" uses this force that is the cause of so much public back-lash against filmmakers. Role of Pornography in Woman Abuse, Harmon, Check, a1988, American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Of course this was not true, but this is a good example of the power that filmmakers have over their audience. In Mary Pat Kelly's book, Martin Scorsese A Journey, Scorsese states, "Showing the movie in court is unfair. The MPAA had been run the same since 1922 and towards the end of the 1960's it was foolish of them to believe they could keep up with a system that was designed forty years previous. The filmmakers had to deal with a conflict for which the public was already familiar with. American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
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