1/27 Activity

1.)    In the past, the MPAA has been the basis for moral taxation, such as a case in the 1970’s where a court in Georgia taxed exhibitioners for showing movies above the PG rating (Schmidt, 45). Is it so far-fetched to believe that the rating system is displaying a passive-aggressive form of morals, as Miriam Krule of Slate paraphrased from A.O. Scott of New York Times, “… movies where entire cities are destroyed and millions of people are killed…” that are PG-13, whereas movies get the “… R rating just because teenage characters smoke pot or have sex…” (2014).

2.)    Published by American Libraries, James C. Schmidt has frequently taught at universities across the US, and had written in an article for the magazine about the history of the MPAA’s court cases concerning its rating system and public treatment (45).

In a published article on Medscape, Kimberly M. Thompson focuses one of her many medical articles upon children’s exposure to mature content, suggesting from a study that “…MPAA applied less stringency in its age-based ratings over time for the period of 1992-2003” (2004).

              5.) Film Ratings Poster. Digital image. Http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/. Film Ratings,                          n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.

                   MPAA Sign. Digital image. The Verge. N.p., 3 Sept. 2013. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.

                   Photo still from “Son of Frankenstein,” ©Universal Pictures Company, Inc. (1944).                              Digital image. District Dispatch. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.