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Article: Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry
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- The Catholic Historical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright Catholic University of America Press Jul 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Sin and Censorship:The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. By Frank Walsh. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 394. $35.00.) If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had a category for the "best book" of the year, one of the chief contenders for the 1996 award would surely be this treatise by a professor of history in the University of Massachusetts. It accurately and yet candidly tells the story of how the Catholic Church became "the most successful pressure group in the history of the movies and why it was eventually forced to relinquish its power."
The saga of the Church's role in motion pictures began with a decision to launch a campaign during World ...