Obscene
United States
2007
97 Min
Color
English
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This 2007 documentary profiles influential publisher Barney Rosset, who battled obscenity bans and took on the Supreme Court for the right to publish controversial novels, including Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Tropic of Cancer. Rosset’s tumultuous personal and professional life is chronicled through archival footage and interviews with Rosset, writer Erica Jong, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, director John Waters and many others.
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Barney Rosset, 1922 - 2012
By David Hudson on February 22, 2012
Perhaps more than any other publisher, Rosset changed the American cultural landscape of the latter half of the 20th century.
TIFF Report: OBSCENE Review
By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
Chances are that unless you were in college in the sixties you do not know the name Barney Rosset and even if you were your awareness of the man is likely questionable. But if you are at all a……
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