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	MPAA film rating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content.
		However, signatory members of the MPAA (major studios) have agreed to submit all of their theatrical releases for rating, and few mainstream producers (outside the pornography niche) are willing to bypass the rating system due to potential effects on revenues.
		One of the unintended side effects of the rating system is that the G and (in recent years) PG ratings have been associated with children's films and are widely considered to be commercially bad for films targeted at teenagers and adults.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NC-17 (4724 words)

	MPAA film rating system : Movie ratings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The MPAA film rating system was instituted in 1968, as an alternative to federal regulation of motion picture content by the United States government.
		One of the unintended side effects of the rating system is that the G rating has been associated with children's films and is widely considered to be commercially bad for films targeted at adults.
		Moreover, he argues that the rating system is geared toward looking at trivial aspects of the movie (such as the number of times a profane word is used) rather than at the general theme of the movie (for example, does the movie realistically depict the consequences of sex and violence).
	www.city-search.org /mo/movie-ratings.html (1055 words)

	MPAA Film Rating System Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The MPAA film rating system was instituted on November 1, 1968 as a response to massive citizen complaints about the appearance and increase of explicit sexual content, graphic violence, scatology and profanity in American film following the abolition, by the MPAA, of the Production Code of America in 1964.
		But the rating, which wasn't trademarked by the MPAA (as were its other ratings), was self-applied by the "adult entertainment" segment of the industry to the point where an X (or a fictional XXX) rating could be included in advertising gimmicks and came to be equated strictly with film pornography.
		The MPAA introduced the NC-17 (No one 17 and under admitted) rating on September 27, 1990 to finally make an official and standardized classification that could allow so-called adult fare to be distributed with the MPAA seal.
	www.matronofthearts.com /encyclopedia/MPAA_film_rating_system (4431 words)

	Reasons for Movie Ratings (CARA) - Frequently Asked Questions
		The movie rating system is a voluntary system sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theatre Owners to provide parents with advance information on films, enabling parents to make judgments on movies they want or do not want their children to see.
		No; the system is not designed to serve the function of "critic." The ratings do not determine or reflect whether a film is "good" or "bad." The system is not intended to approve, disapprove or censor any film; it merely assigns a rating for guidance--leaving the decision-making responsibilities to the parents.
		While the decision to enforce the rating system is purely voluntary, the National Association of Theatre Owners estimate that the majority of theaters observe the Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines.
	www.filmratings.com /questions.htm (886 words)

	MPAA film rating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content.
		Motion picture rating systems are issued to give moviegoers an idea of the suitability of a movie for children and/or adults in terms of issues such as sex, violence and bad language.
		Ratings are often given in lieu of censorship.
	www.jahsonic.com /MPAA.html (352 words)

	Caption TV - GCI - MPAA Rating System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The G rating is not a "certificate of approval", nor does it signify a children's film.
		A PG-13 film is one which, in the view of the Rating Board, leaps beyond the boundaries of the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, or other contents.
		This rating declares that the Rating Board believes that this is a film that most parents will consider patently too adult for their youngsters under 17.
	www.captiontv.com /ratingmpaa.html (311 words)

	MPAA
		This rating system is meant to both prevent censorship, by allowing movies to voluntarily receive ratings, and be a tool for parents to know what movies are appropriate for children.
		With this knowledge, the MPAA is not fulfilling their duty to the majority of parents, the very people the MPAA claims the rating system was created for.
		If all the ratings were required to address the content within a film and get rid of the general age recommended label, many parents would be able to better judge if this is the right movie for their child.
	www.bsu.edu /web/LLCOFFIN/MPAA.html (2638 words)

	RATE THIS! The Conundrum of the MPAA Rating System
		Some ratings are preferable to others (as a PG-13 rating could draw in entire families while an R rating would mostly draw in teens and adults), and some ratings (like the dreaded NC-17, or its predecessor, X) causes few theaters to show the movie at all.
		Issues of censorship aside, the MPAA's stranglehold over studio film content presents a major problem to the reason it even STARTED the rating system in the first place - that is, to inform parents and help shield their children from objectionable material.
		Both the government and the MPAA are not the right people to be substituting for parental control, but we won't get rid of the power of the MPAA until more parents sit up, take notice of the situation, and start accepting some of the responsibility that they've been given.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /rjg12.html (2030 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - The MPAA Rating System
		The only thing that the NC-17 rating does is not allow anyone under the age of 17 to view a certain movie in the theatre whether they have their parents consent or not.
		Like it or not, the MPAA rating system is at least partly responsible for the fact that it has not been released here in the United States.
		The R rating tells parents that there may be content in a film that is not appropriate to be seen by anyone under 17.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=303217 (2774 words)

	Movie rating system explained - understanding the MPAA
		Motion picture ratings haven't escaped this curse, and with parents struggling to know what is and isn't appropriate for their children, Hollywood continues to use its seemingly inexhaustible resources in an attempt to make more movies available to younger audiences.
		And while Valenti is proud to note that the MPAA ratings board has never bowed to pressure from studios to revise a rating, it certainly isn't because of a lack of opportunity to do so.
		To address the issue, the MPAA began making further revisions by introducing the PG-13 rating in 1984 (which would ultimately open the field for harder "teen" movies), and the NC-17 rating in 1990 to replace the maligned X. This time they trademarked the NC-17 insignia so that only the board had authorization to use it.
	www.parentpreviews.com /html/parent_alerts/bp_ratings.shtml (1836 words)

	MPAA film rating system - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The MPAA film rating system was instituted in November 1968 as an alternative to federal regulation of motion picture content by the United States government.
		Rated X – Children Under 17 Not Admitted; the notation "Age limit may vary in certain areas" was sometimes added.
		But the rating, which wasn't trademarked, was usurped by the adult entertainment industry to the point where an X rating (which was never intended to imply anything about the nature of the adults-only content) became equated strictly with pornography.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/PG_13 (1942 words)

	television ratings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		He also did not mention that reason the public generally respects the ratings of the MPAA is because a lot of time and thought are put into the ratings, and even then, there are problems and complaints about the MPAA's rating system.
		In 1966 the current MPAA ratings system was developed, and on November 1, 1968, the new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture was implemented.
		The MPAA has trademarks on all of the ratings with the exception of X. The MPAA labels can only be used by those who submit their films to the Ratings Board.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~kspencer/television/censortv.html (5041 words)

	MIM Comments to the FCC on the Phony Revised V-Chip Ratings Proposal of the Entertainment Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The fact that the system has survived is most assuredly a "testimony" to the effective public relations effort mounted by the MPAA and its eloquent chief spokesman, Jack Valenti, who has honed his First Amendment flag waving skills to a perfection.
		On the one side of the conflict is the well-being of children and the integrity of the rating system.
		Instead, the almost-adult rating is a beacon for the preteen set...In fact, insiders say that many summer blockbusters are calculated to get a PG-13 rating, because savvy Hollywood types know that it's bait for their target audience: kids and pre-teens home from school during the summer months...'It's a science.
	www.moralityinmedia.org /radioTvIndecency/vchpfcc2.htm (5556 words)

	The MPAA Rating Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		There is a defunct MPAA rating called X. It meant essentially the same thing as NC-17, with the difference that, unlike NC-17 or any of the other ratings, it wasn't trademarked.
		A few years ago, the MPAA replaced X with NC-17, to answer critics who claimed that the stigma of the X rating was preventing legitimate adult films from being made.
		Those, too, were rated X. The adult film industry coined the XXX rating to let you know that the film in question featured closeups of genitalia in action.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /ficus-members/reiher/film_miscellany/ratings.html (675 words)

	News from Agape Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It was created as a voluntary system in 1968 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), with the expressed purpose of helping parents determine what films are appropriate for their children.
		The MPAA employs a panel of adults -- who are anonymous to the public and to movie studios -- which issues the familiar G, PG, PG-13 and R ratings based on a film's age-appropriateness.
		Most parents have given the rating system high marks as a useful tool in helping them discern whether a particular movie is appropriate for their children.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/10/202004a.asp (1008 words)

	The PICS Standard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Ratings are specified by using an additional tag within the HTML header ( rating information ).
		The rating is in English text, as defined by the PICS specification.
		For a rating system to be useful, the browser application must deny access to sites that are unrated.
	www.graphcomp.com /info/specs/ms/ratng001.htm (915 words)

	Thoughts on the MPAA rating system
		I get annoyed with filmmakers and fans who blame the MPAA ratings administration for the fact that most films in wide release must be appropriate for minors.
		When MPAA head Jack Valenti was being pressured to create the NC-17 rating, he said, We already have this rating--it's called X. But that rating had become associated with porn (it was the one rating that anyone could self-apply, without submitting to the ratings board for review).
		My feeling is that an X rating might add an element of danger and excitement to the DVD (and the grisly shots of Bill Gates getting his head blown off more than justify such a rating) that could help convince someone to buy it.
	www.slumdance.com /blogs/brian_flemming/archives/000512.html (1097 words)

	Techdirt:An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?
		The MPAA thoughtfully trademarked G, PG, and R when they established the ratings system but forgot/didn't bother with X. The result is that X was co-oppted by the adult/porn film producers and resulted in a stigma being attached to X rated movies.
		If the rating is slapped on by some one else and never tested against the criteria then the rating cannot be accurate.
		Each country has a rating system but each country uses the their own set of rating designations.
	techdirt.com /articles/20050419/0020230_F.shtml (631 words)

	CNN - MPAA ratings system gets 'F' from critics, filmmakers - August 23, 1999
		The MPAA objected to a scene in a "Teaching Mrs.
		Jack Valenti, who created the MPAA system, says it wasn't designed for producers, major studios, directors or critics.
		For example, he says, "The ratings board will say, 'There are seven things that we don't like about this film.' The director might have put in four of them that he doesn't even want, so that when he goes back to the ratings board, he says, 'Well, look, I took out four of them.'"
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/23/mpaa.ratings (699 words)

	ipedia.com: Censorship Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In this latter, form it is sometimes called McCarthyism.
		Censorship is a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems.
		Democratic nations usually have far less institutionalized censorship, and instead tout the importance of freedom of speech.
	www.ipedia.com /censorship.html (523 words)

	Tail Slate - Film Article & Essay - Rating System Pop Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		They refused a “G” rating to a Disney film for the first time.
		True or false: the “X” rating is not trademarked by the MPAA.
		b (the “NC-17” rating was created for filmmakers whose films contained too much adult content for the “R” rating, but did not want their films to be lumped in with “X”-rated films that had evolved into pornography); 8.b; 9.a (Trailers approved for “Restricted Audiences” may only be shown before “R” and “NC-17” rated films.
	www.tailslate.net /articles/articles.asp?ID=47 (352 words)

	Where's the G!?
		The MPAA rating system relies on a voluntary agreement of the movie producers to seek a MPAA rating prior to releasing a movie.
		The purpose of the MPAA rating system is strictly limited to warning parents: no other purpose.
		Noble that the MPAA feels that we as parents should wait until our children are 13 years old before letting them listen to vulgarity and watch nudity in movies.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/ratingsratio (2214 words)

	Blade Trinity Forums - MPAA rating system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In the end, the parents are going to make the decision anyway so the rating doesn't really make any difference (except to serve as a guideline for the parents).
		That said, I think the American rating system is much too restrictive.
		I think the MPAA system is kinda of unreliable and unstable system since most movies they rate are just wrong for the movie well that's what I think.
	www.bladetrinity.com /bbs/printthread.php?t=468&pp=40 (1718 words)

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