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	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: MPAA Ratings Information
		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 the parent to make judgements on movies they want or don't want their children to see.
		For additional information about the voluntary movie rating system and ratings for new releases, visit the Motion Picture Association of America's home page on the World Wide Web.
		This brochure is brought to you by the Motion Picture Association America, Inc. and the National Association of Theatre Owners in association with your local theater.
	www.bigscreen.com /MPAA_RatingsInfo.php (1125 words)

	AXE - Reference - Reference Sources - Film
		Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) - and its international counterpart, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) serve as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries
		Formulated and formally adopted by The Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. and The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. in March 1930.
		Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) - A professional honorary organization designed to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures.
	library.pittstate.edu /ref/resources/general/film.html (3678 words)

	Christian Century: To protect children - Federal Trade Commission report finds "R" rated movies often marketed to children - Brief Article
		In 1968, when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) developed the motion picture rating system, they were working with a moviegoing environment that knew nothing about the home video industry, which puts every film potentially in the hands of children.
		The motion picture rating system was devised to accommodate both that desire for freedom in creating and viewing films and the community's need to protect its children from exploitation.
		The motion picture rating system has relied on the willingness of industry leaders to handle their freedom responsibly.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_27_117/ai_66355947 (908 words)

	Shadows on the Wall: MPAA
		The MPAA is "the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries." Founded in 1922 as the trade association of the American film industry, the MPAA is a voluntary rating system.
		No-one younger than 17 will be admitted to the cinema.
		Should be suitable for audiences aged 4 and over.
	shadows.wall.net /shmpaa.htm (189 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: MPAA Ratings Information
		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 the parent to make judgements on movies they want or don't want their children to see.
		For additional information about the voluntary movie rating system and ratings for new releases, visit the Motion Picture Association of America's home page on the World Wide Web.
		This information has been transcribed from a brochure distributed in theaters by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. and the National Association of Theatre Owners in association with local theaters.
	www.bigscreen.com /MPAA_RatingsInfo.php (1125 words)

	MPAA Definition / MPAA Research
		[click for more], and Warner Bros. The organization produces the well-known voluntary film rating systemThe 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.
		It is one of various motion picture rating systems used to help patrons decide which movies may be appropriate for children....
		MPAA is the trade association for the motion picture industry.
	www.elresearch.com /MPAA (587 words)

	Movie rating system explained - understanding the MPAA
		No longer the MPPDA, The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had just placed Jack Valenti in it's presidential chair.
		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.
	www.parentpreviews.com /html/parent_alerts/bp_ratings.shtml (1836 words)

	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.
		It is one of various motion picture rating systems used to help patrons decide which movies may be appropriate for children and/or adolescents.
		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/MPAA_film_rating_system (4945 words)

	20060124-6036.html
		The Motion Picture Association of America was caught with its pants down, admitting to making unauthorized copies of the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated in advance of this week's Sundance Film Festival.
		This Film Is Not Yet Rated looks at the motion picture ratings system created and run by the MPAA.
		Dick feels that the MPAA is full of—surprise—double standards, especially when it comes to how they treat graphic violence vs. sexual content, heterosexual vs. homosexual sex, and big-studio vs. independent films.
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20060124-6036.html (644 words)

	Motion Picture Association of America - KnowledgeIsFun.com
		The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA, originally called the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios.
		Valenti, who turned 82 years old in 2003, announced his retirement at the Showest motion picture convention in Las Vegas in March 2003.
		The MPAA claims that this technology is essential for the protection of studios' rights; however, critics claim that such copy-protection schemes violate First Ammendment rights granted by the United States Constitution.
	www.knowledgeisfun.com /M/MP/MPAA.php (715 words)

	Movie Rating System Information - US Ratings
		The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) supervises a board of 8 to 13 members who work for the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA).
		The increasing threat by U.S. lawmakers to put legislation in place if the industry cannot regulate itself, is incentive for the motion picture industry to keep their own policing efforts in force.
		In turn, the board is funded by film distributors and producers, who pay a fee to have their films rated.
	www.movie-ratings.net /movieratings_us.shtml (356 words)

	Wikinfo Film
		Most films shown in the United States are rated under a voluntary rating system instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America :
		Today, motion pictures (or movies) are an art form, as well as one of the most popular forms of entertainment.
		Originally moving picture film was shot at a nominal 16 frames per second, but was changed to 24 frames per second with the introduction of sound.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Film (356 words)

	NC-17: Art or Pornography?
		"The study here sought to design and implement a valid experimental instrument to test the potential influence of the Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system on movie attendance"
		The study is proven by using the example of the film "showgirls" which proves that the rating didn't lead to people viewing the movie but that it had to do with the word of mouth from others.
		In the case of the NC-17 rating there is already a preconceived notion (ideoscape) that if a film is rated NC-17 it is going to be pornographic and therefore most people will not want to watch it.
	www.eden.rutgers.edu /~cervasio/finalpaper/reality.html (512 words)

	OKCupid! The What Is Your MPAA Film Rating? Test
		The ratings are borrowed from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
		This test will give you a rating according to your use of adult language, the level to which you enjoy violence, your love of nudity, and adult situations -- which amplifies the language, violence, and nudity to more serious levels and includes drug use.
		Note your numerical scores of WHY you were given a certain rating, and use those scores to compare with others rather than just the rating alone.
	www.okcupid.com /tests/take?testid=6787578413077663578 (264 words)

	CNN - MPAA ratings system gets 'F' from critics, filmmakers - August 23, 1999
		LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The Motion Picture Association of America has been an invaluable player in rating films for over 30 years now -- but is it still relevant?
		The film's orgy scene was digitally obscured in order to avoid an NC-17 rating -- a rating which Mark Gill, president of indie film champion Miramax, says "is absolutely the kiss of death for anything but the tiniest of art films."
		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)

	Film rating systems -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The United States uses the (Click link for more info and facts about MPAA film rating system) MPAA film rating system, instituted by the (Click link for more info and facts about Motion Picture Association of America) Motion Picture Association of America.
		Germany has the (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft; voluntary self-control of the Motion Picture Association) rating system based on the age of the audience.
		The guidelines laid out by rating systems is often used by governments and theatre trade groups to restrict the viewing of certain films to patrons above a certain age.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/film_rating_systems.htm (317 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 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.
		It is one of various motion picture rating systems used to help patrons decide which movies may be appropriate for children and/or adolescents.
		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)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - Parents Still Support 33YearOld Film Rating System, Study Finds
		In conjunction with the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), Jack Valenti, President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, created the movie ratings system on November 1, 1968.
		Wed, Oct 31, 2001, 10:10 AM PT HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - While the voluntary movie rating system marks its 33rd anniversary tomorrow, a new survey shows that parents deciding what films their children can see are still behind it all the way.
		"The movie rating system is a shared responsibility between America's movie studios, theatre operators, and parents.
	www.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---9369,00.html (4724 words)

	CNN - MPAA ratings system gets 'F' from critics, filmmakers - August 23, 1999
		LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The Motion Picture Association of America has been an invaluable player in rating films for over 30 years now -- but is it still relevant?
		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.'"
		The film's orgy scene was digitally obscured in order to avoid an NC-17 rating -- a rating which Mark Gill, president of indie film champion Miramax, says "is absolutely the kiss of death for anything but the tiniest of art films."
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/23/mpaa.ratings (699 words)

	RATE THIS! The Conundrum of the MPAA Rating System
		The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) began in 1922 as an organization with members from all major studios.
		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.
		In an era where cable TV is seeing unparalleled success with TV-MA shows such as South Park, The Sopranos, Oz and Six Feet Under, the theater and movie industry needs to take a step of faith to see that an adult-only film can succeed on its own merit.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /rjg12.html (2030 words)

	Echo Online :: Arts & Entertainment :: Rating systems
		The Motion Picture Association of America refused to approve "Blow-Up," but MGM, feeling particularly impish, released the movie anyway, driving the last nail into the coffin of self-regulation.
		At that point, producers of the film are allowed to see the rating and the reasoning behind it and are given the option of re-editing and resubmitting the movie to the Board for a different rating.
		Spotty enforcement, parental apathy, complicated and competing systems, the "forbidden fruit" lure of adult ratings, the disastrous commercial effect of the most extreme ratings and, in television, the suspicious self-rating system all unite to undermine the systems' effectiveness.
	www.easternecho.com /cgi-bin/story.cgi?7029 (984 words)

	censorship in film
		Perhaps film has the most organized system of censorship found in the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
		Editing films from an NC-17 rating to an R, and including a small demographic of judges on the rating board, are two examples of censorship.
		An estimated 10 million Catholics signed the pledge, which inspired the Legion to devise a rating system ranging from Class A-I, films that were morally unobjectionable for general patronage, to Class C, films that were condemned, "positively bad." The church had a powerful weapon, which the MPPDA and movie companies soon realized.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/cis/wp/langes/censorship.html (2612 words)

	Motion Picture Association of America - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios.
		Its members consist of seven major studios: the Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. The organization produces the well-known voluntary film rating system.
		In a 1982 testimony before the House of Representatives, MPAA president Jack Valenti stated: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm.
	www.music.us /education/M/Motion-Picture-Association-of-America.htm (2612 words)

	News from Agape Press
		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.
		It also suggested the development and creation of a "universal media rating system," which would use the same types of ratings and symbols across the media spectrum: movies, television, videos, DVDs, and video games.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/10/202004a.asp (1008 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: MPAA Ratings Information
		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 the parent to make judgements on movies they want or don't want their children to see.
		For additional information about the voluntary movie rating system and ratings for new releases, visit the Motion Picture Association of America's home page on the World Wide Web.
		This brochure is brought to you by the Motion Picture Association America, Inc. and the National Association of Theatre Owners in association with your local theater.
	www.bigscreen.com /MPAA_RatingsInfo.php (1008 words)

	USCCB Reviews - Inside Deep Throat
		The Motion Picture Association of America rating is NC-17 -- no one 17 or under admitted.
		The following system is used by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
		N.B.: Films with the initials "br" (before rating) or "nr" (not rated) denote those movies which were released either before the rating system was established, or are being released without an MPAA rating.
	www.nccbuscc.org /movies/i/insidedeepthroat.htm (1008 words)

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