N is for NC-17 Part II - The Raters Strike Back

Won't somebody please think of the children!? Alisha and Will return this week to examine the secret inner workings of the MPAA and ask "Who is calling the shots?". Expect partial nudity, full nudity, references to puppet sex, and non-stop ninja action on this week's Enter the Rabbit Hole.

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Articles:

List of NC-17 Rated Films 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NC-17_rated_films

Classification and Rating Rules (MPA Inc., Jul 2020)

https://www.filmratings.com/Content/Downloads/rating_rules.pdf

Market Share for Each Distributor 1995-2021 (The Numbers, 2021)

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/distributors

Market Share for Each MPAA Rating 1995-2021 (The Numbers, 2021)

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/mpaa-ratings

Eternals Rated PG-13 For Violence, Language, And Brief Sexuality (David James, We Got This Covered, Sep 2021)

https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/eternals-rated-pg-13-for-violence-language-and-brief-sexuality/

25 R-Rated Movies That Were Originally NC-17 (Tom Fish, Newsweek, Sep 2021)

https://www.newsweek.com/r-rated-movies-originally-nc-17-1606808

https://daily.jstor.org/end-american-film-censorship/

How the Hays Code—as Seen in Hollywood—Censored Hollywood (Temi Adebowale, Men’s Health, May 2020)

https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a32290089/hollywood-hays-code/

The Skinny on the Fatty Arbuckle Trial (Gilbert King, Smithsonian Magazine, Nov. 2011)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-skinny-on-the-fatty-arbuckle-trial-131228859/

Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On (Bob Mondello, NPR, August 2008)

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189

A Brief History of the X Rating (Jason Bailey, Vulture, Dec. 2018)

https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/a-brief-history-of-the-x-rating.html

50 Surprisingly Great X-Rated Movies (That Aren't Porn) (Jennifer M. Wood, Thrillist, Jan 2019) 

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-x-rated-movies

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Motion-Picture-Association-of-America

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1247/motion-picture-ratings

https://www.motionpictures.org/film-ratings/

Videos:

Film 90 Report on the new NC17 Film Rating (VHS Video Vault, Jan 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P_YFBBgCCw&ab_channel=VHSVideovault

Whatever Happened to the X Rating? (Entertain the Elk, Jul 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8OZPEsdKss&ab_channel=EntertainTheElk

Who Invented the Movie Rating System? (Today I Found Out, June 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntcs8_QLlxg&ab_channel=TodayIFoundOut

Pre Code Hollywood (Michael d Jackson, Dec 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF82lbJM6ik&ab_channel=creanost

How the Catholic Church censored Hollywood's Golden Age (Vox, Apr 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZGKhpv8eg&ab_channel=Vox

4 Cinematic Victims of Hays Code Era Censorship (Cold Crash Pictures, Nov 2017)

https://youtu.be/BPnjfqAeKQo

The History of Hollywood Censorship and the Ratings System (Filmmaker IQ, Nov 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynf8BmfgPtM&ab_channel=FilmmakerIQ

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpbxzP2mkoA&ab_channel=P.I.Becky

List of NC-17 rated films (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NC-17_rated_films

Audio:

Episode 35: Censorship in Horror (Test Pattern - A Horror Movie Podcast, Jul 2017)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7plQ8TT9ldgz65GTe5B644?si=dadec4165b224838