Book banning has been a familiar part of the educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. ... This literary revolution has reflected society's own loss of innocence (Day 362). ... The ratings may be evidence of Hollywood's sensitivity to its moral obligations to all audiences, but the effectiveness of the system depends, in the final analysis, on the good-faith efforts of both theater m...

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The term 'genre' has been historically referred to as the classification of literary texts and forms. In modernity and postmodernity it has been extended beyond literary boundaries to encapsulate (among other 'art forms') the classification of film/cinema. ... 'No single interpretive procedure can ensure proper analysis of every individual work throughout an entire genre. ...

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