The Obscenity Commission Report - An Editor\u27s Note

In October, 1967 Congress established an advisory commission (1) to study the effect of obscenity upon the public, particularly minors, and its relationship to crime and other antisocial behavior; and, (2) to recommend legislative action necessary to regulate traffic in obscenity without interfering with constitutional rights. During the fall of 1970 the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography issued its report. The Commission majority recommended that legal restriction of obscene books, pictorials, and motion pictures be totally abolished for adults and that the restriction of obscene books be lifted for children. Such a prescription for legal reform was largely based on conclusions the Commission drew from its studies concerning the effects of obscenity

100 Years of Cinema: Looking Ahead

IN THIS CENTENNARY YEAR OF FILM, much has been said about cinema's past; now may be time to see what lies ahead in view of the rapidly approaching new century and millennium. We do not know which form the film medium is going to assume a hundred years from now and, indeed, if it is going to exist at all. It is, however, not my intention to look this far ahead. Let us glance instead at the very near future of this journal, and see the form it will take in the time to come. The first issue of KINEMA was published only in 1993. The word "Netscape" was still unknown then. Today, the name of this browser software is a household word and millions of people around the globe, young and old, put on its wings and journey out to explore the magic Web. Many of them enter..

Policy recommendations on enhancing the role of Mongolia in Northeast Asia

DOI: 10.5564/mjia.v0i13.9Mongolian Journal of International Affairs No.13 2006 pp.68-7