Keywords
media; First Amendment; civil rights
Abstract
In this Essay, I highlight how nongovernmental entities establish political, moral, and sexual standards through visual media, which powerfully underscores and expresses human behavior. Through the Motion Picture Production Code (the “Hays Code”) and the Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters (the “TV Code”), Americans viewed entertainment as a pre-mediated, engineered world that existed outside of claims of censorship and propaganda. This Essay critically examines the role of film and television as persuasive and integral legal actors and it considers how these sectors operate to maintain, and sometimes challenge, racial order.
Recommended Citation
Kevin Noble Maillard,
Hollywood Loving,
86 Fordham L. Rev. 2647
(2018).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol86/iss6/3
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