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Hollywood representations of organized crime

Hollywood representations of organized crime. Gilbert ELBAZ UAG. Ku Klux Klan. Anti-immigration acts of 1921 and 1924. Red Scare. In 1921 the first Immigration act was passed, designed to halt the flow of immigrant labor into the US.

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Hollywood representations of organized crime

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  1. Hollywood representations of organized crime Gilbert ELBAZ UAG

  2. Ku Klux Klan

  3. Anti-immigration acts of 1921 and 1924

  4. Red Scare

  5. In 1921 the first Immigration act was passed, designed to halt the flow of immigrant labor into the US

  6. Daughters of the American Revolution: Manual for Citizenship

  7. Between 1820 and 1930, 32 million Europeans of largely peasant and non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant background immigrated to the US

  8. Volstead Act (Prohibition, 1920-1933)

  9. Laisser-faire and WASP hegemony

  10. Laisser-faire and WASP hegemony

  11. Public Enemy and Manhattan Melodrama

  12. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election

  13. Restrictive resolution in 1930, the Production Code.

  14. In 1915, the Supreme Court excluded motion pictures from protection by the First Amendment right to free speech

  15. Mutual Film Corp vs. Industrial Commission of Ohio (United States Supreme Court, 1915).

  16. A National Board of Review was created in 1908

  17. In 1915, the National Board of Review published a 25-page booklet of formal standards for filmmakers

  18. Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Daughters of the American Revolution

  19. Pope Pius XI who demanded that Catholics get involved.

  20. Anglo-protestant nativists

  21. Joseph Breen

  22. 1931 Scarface: • produced by Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawks.

  23. On July 15, 1935 Will Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America declared a moratorium on all gangster film production in Hollywood.

  24. Cagney, Robinson, and Muni: G-Men (1935), Bullets of Ballots (1936).

  25. Film noir of the 1940s and early 1950s.

  26. Force of Evil (1948) 

  27. Asphalt Jungle (1950)

  28. Office of War Information and its Bureau of Motion Picture. • The Office of Censorship

  29. House Committee on Un-American Activities from 1947 to 1953.

  30. In September 1947, the Committee subpoenaed 41 witnesses for its hearings on Communist influence in Hollywood.

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