Policing Public Morality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Charles
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Educational Campaign ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Most Americans are familiar with the bromides of the so-called culture wars, particularly as public religious figures of the 1960s and 1970s decried the perceived decline of sexual decency and morality. In this chapter, Charles Douglas examines a lesser-known dimension of this topic: the FBI’s decades-long campaign against obscenity. Charles explains how as obscenity’s legal definition constantly evolved after 1957, leading to the growth and proliferation of both obscenity and pornography, the FBI perceived the two as fundamental threats to American morality and culture. Consequently J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI devoted substantial resources to counter these social changes through an educational campaign spearheaded through its Crime Records Division — the bureau’s public relations machinery. This chapter amplifies attention to how the moralism of the Hoover period motivated efforts to police public morality well into the 1970s and 1980s.

Speech or conduct?

2018 ◽  
pp. 263-284
Author(s):  
Christopher Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Trademark Law ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
Media Corporations

This chapter offers an analysis of the key forms of linguistic censorship found within common law jurisdictions and examines their legal rationale in terms of the distinction between speech and conduct. Case law domains examined include blasphemy, public order offences, obscenity and key literary trials, broadcasting, popular music, trademark law, and personal names. The culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s over censorship involved a two-way clash between the establishment and progressive activists. Today, issues such as hate speech, misogyny, and online trolling offer a challenge to notions of social liberation through the ending of taboo. Identity politics provides a framework for understanding the harm associated with certain forms of linguistic behaviour. While in many domains law has retreated from linguistic censorship, legal systems as well as global social media corporations continue to debate whether and how to control linguistic expression in different domains.

Colonialism in West Central Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Bernault
Keyword(s):  
Central African Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Republic ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The article considers a large region comprising Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea.1 From the 1880s onwards, Central Africa was colonized by Spanish, French, German, Belgian, and Portuguese powers. Here Africans generally suffered a harsher kind of rule than in West Africa, as colonialism brought little capital and investments, and imposed brutal forms of extractive economy. Foreign powers, moreover, proved reluctant to dialogue with African elites. Yet, the colonial era was also a moment when Central Africans initiated radical political revolutions and capacious social changes, achieving independence in the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout the period under consideration, moreover, important cultural creations in the form of music, popular painting, photography, and fashion became influential in the rest of Africa and beyond.

Culture Wars and Catharses

Unruly Cinema ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 101-140
Author(s):  
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Indian Language ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
New Cinema ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter focuses on a While the New Cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s reinvigorated the medium to the excitement of a section of the educated middle-class, the Hindi mainstream industry in Bombay reoriented the national imaginary to focus on physical violence and cathartic revenge. This is the era that saw a clear bifurcation between two distinct cinemas – the popular commercial cinema and the new art cinema – existing in almost every Indian language.

Trends in forest management in the United States

1994 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Ward Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forestry Practices ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Timber Sale

Changes in forestry practices in the United States have been dramatic over the past decade. These changes have been brought about largely through government regulations promulgated in response to pressure from environmental and other groups at both federal and state levels. Historically, the federal government has taken leadership in forest stewardship, though some states have demonstrated strong initiatives over the years. Two separate, but intertwined, factors combined to alter the practice of forestry over much of the United States. There were the interactive consequences of obedience to national environmental laws, passed in the 1960s and 1970s, and a rising environmental consciousness among the majority of the minority of the citizenry who care about natural resource issues. Rising public concern was focussed in challenges in the federal courts to government forest management activities, and in terms of public relations campaigns using lobbying, demonstrations, and manipulation of the mass media. In July of 1993, President Clinton selected an option for management of federal forests in the Pacific Northwest section of the United States that dedicated 9.28 million acres (3.75 million hectares) of federal forests to reserves to be managed for late-successional/old-growth ecosystem function and riparian/fisheries protection. This reduced the anticipated timber sale levels from the 2.4 billion board feet (5.7 million m3) cut annually in 1990-1992, to 1.2 billion board feet (2.8 million m3) projected for 1994. There is an ongoing shift in management philosophy toward "ecosystem management" of forested lands with increasing attention to aesthetics and more benign environmental effects of timber management.

scholarly journals MONTSERRAT ROIG’S EL TEMPS DE LES CIRERES: A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT THE PAST

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Deiser
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
The Past ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Fredric Jameson ◽  
Historical Transition ◽  
Remote Past

In Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson speaks to the legitimacy of the claim that we have entered the postmodern era. He also notes, however, that cultural artifacts often contain elements of a previous social structure while, at the same time, revealing one in its early stages of development. In this article I argue that Montserrat Roig’s 1977 novel, El temps de les cireres, supports Jameson’s premise. Through the motifs of photography and time, Roig not only chronicles some of the significant social changes took place in Barcelona during the 1960s and 1970s, she also conjures up the city’s more remote past for an older generarion that had been denied it, as well as for a younger generation that no longer recognized it. In so doing, her novel not only documents events leading up to Spain’s transition to democracy, it also grapples with the broader historical transition from modernity to postmodernity in Spain.

scholarly journals Od ofiary po sukuba. Wizerunek kobiety w kinie giallo

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Piotr Wajda
Keyword(s):  
Social Changes ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Different Types ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

From victim to succubus: Women representation in giallo filmsThe presented article revolves around depictions of women protagonists in giallo films. The author starts with a brief introduction on the controversies connected with the directors’ comments and critique of the violence, nudity and the ways the fate of a woman is presented in giallo. Furthermore, the author describes how different types of women are presented in selected films. He emphasizes the influence of social changes of the 1960s and 1970s on the mentioned depictions. Firstly, he focuses on the “woman as a victim” motif; secondly, the author describes other archetypes, known as “a fighting woman”, “femme fatale” and “menades”. The article is concluded with a brief commentary on the artistic reinterpretations of traditional Western symbolism in the Italian giallo genre.

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