- The
Miller test, also
called the three-prong
obscenity test, is the
United States Supreme Court's test for
determining whether speech or
expression can...
- prurient.
Prurience is part of the machine. It
keeps you happy. It
keeps you running." — Andy
Warhol Film
scholar Linda Williams remarked that
prurience "is...
-
discussing obscenity laws. "Borderline ****"
appealed to ****ual
prurience, but had
other positive qualities, such as
literary or
artistic merit...
- Reporter.
October 5, 2009. Scott, A. O. (August 5, 2010). "A
Purveyor of
Prurience in a Family-Man Guise". The New York Times. Murphy,
Mekado (May 3, 2010)...
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nature in her review: "neither
cheerfully naughty nor
suffused with
gauzy prurience, [the film]
evokes a time of
turbulent (and
often ugly)
emotions with...
-
coached in the art of
seducing a
woman (gasp!)
smacks of old-fashioned
prurience.
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's turn as a
lionised New York
artist complaining...
-
Retrieved December 1, 2019. Scott, A. O. (August 5, 2010). "A
Purveyor of
Prurience in a Family-Man Guise". The New York Times.
Retrieved December 1, 2019...
- how the film is able to tell its
story "with
neither squeamishness nor
prurience."
Similar views were
expressed by
Kenneth Turan of the Los
Angeles Times...
-
writing "In less
sensitive hands, a case like this
could lend
itself to
prurience or melodrama, but Neil Mackay's [sic]
script and
David Blair's direction...
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manic sprawl that only
pretends to
celebrate cinema. It's
really about prurience, dumb sensation, self-congratulation and
willful ignorance of history...
