Film Censorship and Progressive Reform
Film Censorship and Progressive Reform
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电影审查制度和渐进式改革
DOI：
10.1080/00472719.1975.10661767
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1975
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R. Fisher
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20世纪早期城市文化改革留下的许多遗产，对我们以解放为导向的文明来说，似乎是毫无意义的、荒谬的或冒犯的。维多利亚时代的道德标准、禁令、”适当的行为”引起了居高临下的微笑;美国化计划、实现”社会控制”的努力和”更高生活”的文化引起了对政客和商人动机的警惕的一代人的蔑视。虽然进步改革的这些方面有很多值得微笑和皱眉的地方，但对那些真诚致力于改进的进步人士的研究：qg社会各阶层的素质和福利--通过民主方法--既不是徒劳的，也不是无关紧要的，纽约市人民协会是一个公民组织，它表达了自己的观点，并支持这类具有特色的项目。进步主义。与大多数“改革者”不同，该研究所真诚地鼓励公民行动主义、参与式民主和文化多元主义，并设计了帮助而不是控制工人阶级参与者的项目。此外，像今天的许多人一样，研究所领导人担心物质主义社会所遵循的路线缺乏“健康”的价值观，与当时和今天的大多数人不同，在1897年至1934年研究所的生命周期中，不知疲倦地工作，以“提升”现代城市生活的质量。为了实现这一目标，该研究所为移民和工薪阶层赞助了一系列令人印象深刻的活动。它举办关于知识、政治和宗教问题的教育讲座，支持和促进
Much of the legacy of urban cultural reform in the early twentieth century appears meaningless, ridiculous, or offensive to our liberation-oriented civilization. Victorian standards of morality, prohibition," proper conduct" evoke condescending smiles; Americanization programs, efforts to achieve" social control" and a" higher life" culture provoke scorn in a generation wary of the motivations of politicians and businessmen. While there is much to smile and scowl at in these dimensions of Progressive reform, a study of those Progressives sincerely committed to improvi: qg the quality and welfare of all segments of society-through democratic methods-is neither fruitless nor irrelevant, and their program not without virtues.The People's Institute of New York City was one civic organization that expressed opinions and supported programs characteristic of this kind of Progressivism. Unlike most" reformers," the Institute sincerely encouraged civic activism, participatory democracy, and cultural pluralism and designed programs to assist not control its working-class participants. In addition, like many people today, Institute leaders feared the route being followed by a materialist society devoid of" healthful" values, and unlike most, then and today, worked indefatigably, during the life span of the Institute, 1897 to 1934, to" uplift" the quality of modern urban life. Towards this goal the Institute sponsored an impressive array of activities for immigrants and wage-earners. It conducted educational lectures on intellectual, political, and religious matters, supported and promoted