| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture. By Raymond J. Haberski Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xii, 266 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2429-2.)
It was New York City, not Hollywood, argues Raymond J. Haberski Jr., that defined American film culture. With its large and diverse intellectual community, a host of well-known national critics, powerful media outlets, state, municipal, and religious censors, and a multitude of theaters eager to exhibit films of all types, New York held a unique place in American film culture from the 1950s to the early 1970s.	1
Critics such as Gilbert Seldes, Brooks Atkinson, Bosley Crowther, Susan Sontag, and Pauline Kael bemoaned the fact that until the late 1960s, license commissioners, Catholic priests, and state and industry censors controlled the content of Hollywood films. Haberski centers his book on three key individuals who played a major role in challenging this system of control—Bosley Crowther, a film critic for the New York Times, Jonas Mekas, a film critic for The Village Voice, and, Amos Vogel of Cinema 16, a film society.	. . .

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