An unfortunate result of the new NC-17 rating is that many morality groups and religious leaders want rating boards to rate films on a community by community basis. As a result, filmmakers in certain areas of the country may lose their artistic freedom, and likewise actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, movie theaters, and potential moviegoers may lose the freedom to choose what film(s) they would like to see, make, buy, or audition for.
[The original version of this essay, then entitled "NC-17 Films", first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s, in my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays", plus in UMass/Boston's Mass Media student newspaper in the mid-'90s.]
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