This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the cinematic envelope with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene Indecent Immoral ampamp Offensive 100 Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned censored and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded controversial at the time of their release due to explicit language nudity graphic sex violence and their treatment of adult subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation Anatomy of a Murder Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf Baby Doll Blackboard Jungle Bonnie and Clyde The Wild Bunch A Clockwork Orange Natural Born Killers Caligula Rosemarys Baby Life of Brian The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ. show more