1st Amendment & Virginia Declaration - Jon M

During the1930s gangster films upset critics and citizen groups was because they feared that the movie industry might glorify crime and gangsters and mock the judicial system as the Code said “Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for it’s violation. ” ( qtd in Black, 108).

I think that censorship of violence is dependent on whether or not you think movies would fall under the category of freedom of the press. Usually when we think of freedom of the press we think of news media more often then movies which are meant to be entertainment. I think that movies should too an extent be protected by freedom of the press. If there is a scene that is offensive people can be warned about it, but everybody shouldn’t have to miss a movie just because some people might be offended. Howver if a overwhelming number of the population don’t like a particular film then it would make censorship more acceptable.