TELE 3010 1nd Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture I Continuation of Media Regulation II Copyright Information III Material That Is Regulated Outline of Current Lecture I Self Regulation with Media Current Lecture Self Regulation voluntary by Media Industries Content can be regulated and their are a variety of forces that do this regulating Moral forces and the government and other forces work together to monitor sex violence and profanity within the media Television The Television Ratings System Where parents can go look at the ratings of shows and determine what their kids can watch Music Parents Music Resource Center PMRC and the Explicit Music label on CDs This can affect sales radio play etc The clean editions are only distributed in Walmart for example Corporate Regulation is Wal Mart s not selling of these explicit labeled CD s Film and Ratings The Hollywood Production Code video in class enforced moral standards on movies distributed in the United States William Hayes adopted this code and established the committee who enforced it Most production studios agreed for the Hayes Code to review their films but many believed it infringed on their rights to produce what they want Joseph Breen became chief of the Hayes Committee and established The Breen Code Restricted filmmakers freedom of expression but gave Hollywood a great deal of respect Films couldn t show the misery of the Great Depression or talk about WW2 under the code In 1952 it was ruled censorship unconstitutional and the Hollywood Production Code fell apart The MPAA and Jack Valenti Motion Pictures Association of America created the rated system that we use today Rated G PG etc It is a These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute voluntary system This Film Is Not Yet Rated video in class NC 17 rating prohibited studios from releasing films The MPAA rating is done by an anonymous group which is where the problem lies in censorship They will not disclose who is rating the movies and this disgruntles many people Who is really making these censorships The filmmaker does not have to accept the rating When choosing not to accept the rating sometimes the TV spots are removed and the advertising is heavily affected The MPAA focuses on public relations and wants to make sure the film industry is held to a respectable standard The takeaway point from this video 1 who is on the MPAA How do we know there are a clear variety of people with different sexualities races etc Women s pleasure is treated different than men s pleasure for example Why 2 It also takes away from a person s agency and we are not allowing someone to freely express themselves with this MPAA censorship With an NC 17 the film cannot be advertised so no one knows about the film Therefore the film is killed right away because of a rating from an anonymous rating board 3 Structure Agency Jack Valenti used the language of Agency Felt that we were giving parents the opportunity to regulate what their kids could go see in the movies However the agency of the kids and producers filmmakers was restricted Ratings X used to designate adults only XXX pornography industry NC 17 new rating to distinguish adults only from porn
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