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    world, the music industry in the United States has different organizations and associations which represent different roles in the music industry and serve different purposes, constructing a structure of checks and balances. American record labels and distributors got RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the domestic representative of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) in America, to represent them and monitor and review relevant laws, regulations and policies

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    Being considered a liberal or leftist became associated as a sign of subversion, along with admitting to being a homosexual or being an atheist, and investigators and the government did not want these liberal, possibly subversive themes in Hollywood films as they were an extension of the American image, and values. Cole points out how it is absurd to consider anyone who is a liberal to be considered a communist saying that “Communists may be said to be left of liberals only if one thinks of the

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    Chapter 31 Exam

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    migration of rural blacks to northern cities. b. the strict enforcement of prohibition laws. c. evolutionary science’s challenge to the biblical story of the Creation. d. the public’s association of labor violence with its fear of revolution. e. the threat created by the Communist Revolution in Russia. 33. Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the

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    CAA Rating

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    The Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) is a purely voluntary system supported by The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (Crecente). The CARA is funded by film distributors and producers who pay a fee to have their film rated (“MPAA Movie Ratings”). The debate on whether the CARA system works or not is highly debatable. I, personally, think that the system is very functional. This system provides parents and other audiences with

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    State basically made it illegal to show the movie. The distributor sued and the Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot censor a film on the by saying that it is "blasphemous" The Court changed its 1915 view and ruled that "expression by means of motion pictures is included within

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    of new inventions, cheap labor, technology, and a plethora of raw materials. Industrialization led to the rise of labor unions and separation by classes socially. The culture of the United States changed drastically because of immigrants coming to America. Industrialization affected the economy because of industries growing fast and creating more jobs than ever before. The rise of industry brought about many innovations that forever changed the United States. The social impact of industrialization

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    Music Recording Industry

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    audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its motion picture, television, computer entertainment, music and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment and technology companies in the world. Other media of the Sony Corporation are the motion picture houses Columbia pictures and Tri-Star pictures. According to Andrew Herman, Sony Corporation became presence in the music record when it bought CBS in 1988.

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    The reason the film culture in the United States was more modest compared to Europe was due to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). It released a set of industry censorship guidelines called the MPPC (Motion Picture Production Code) that prohibited a film’s distribution if it did not adequately meet the specific standards of the time. Many rules of the production code would probably seem fairly conservative

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    technique for advertising. There are stock for which much time and efforts are required in sending so as to make an enthusiasm businessman to forthcoming buyers than by simply advancing them. First and foremost of the exchange enroll in for cash America it was sold by uncommonly arranged specialist who drew nearer the imminent customers and had the troublesome undertaking of influencing them that they could no more proceed with the old methodologies, and that they critically obliged a cash register

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    The magazine article describes the stark contrast in the portrayal of female sexuality between pre-Code and post-Code movies. Pre-Code movies are flagrantly sexual; although some contemporary film critics believe that women were simply embracing their sexual freedom through these pre-code films, the marketing for many of these brazenly sexual films often included derisive comments from males, suggesting that the intent of overt sexuality in films was more crude. Post-code films often used screenwriting

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