[PDF.55as]  Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut..* Carolyn Anderson, Thomas W Benson

A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security.

Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967.