Seo shows how procedures designed to safeguard us on the road ultimately undermined the nation’s commitment to equal protection before the law. Constitutional challenges to traffic stops largely failed, and motorists “driving while black” had little recourse to question police demands. The justices’ efforts to protect Americans did more to accommodate than to limit police intervention, and the new criminal procedures inadvertently sanctioned discrimination by officers of the law. Seo overturns prevailing interpretations of the Warren Court’s due process revolution. In a society dependent on cars, everyone-the law-breaking and law-abiding alike-would be subject to discretionary policing. Instead, jurists interpreted the amendment narrowly. The Fourth Amendment-the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures-did not effectively shield individuals from government intrusion while driving. But with more and more drivers behind the wheel, police departments rapidly expanded their forces and increased officers’ authority to stop citizens who violated traffic laws. ![]() As Policing the Open Road makes clear, this radical transformation in the nature and meaning of American freedom has had far-reaching political and legal consequences.īefore the twentieth century, most Americans rarely came into contact with police officers. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us to accept-and expect-pervasive police power. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. “A fascinating examination of how the automobile reconfigured American life, not just in terms of suburbanization and infrastructure but with regard to deeply ingrained notions of freedom and personal identity.”-Hua Hsu, New Yorker Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). ![]() “With insights ranging from the joy of the open road to the indignities-and worse-of ‘driving while black,’ Sarah Seo makes the case that the ‘law of the car’ has eroded our rights to privacy and equal justice…Absorbing and so essential.”-Paul Butler, author of Chokehold The Harlan Ellison Hornbook by Harlan Ellison, Jun 03, 2014, Open Road Media edition, paperback. Both Ford and Open Road boss Tom Ortenberg left the company to form rival operations: Ford’s AGC Studios and Ortenberg’s Briarcliff EntertainmentĪt last year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Rob Friedman, then CEO of Global Road’s entertainment division, told a packed crowd of international distributors that the company had a $1 billion war chest to invest in film productions over the next three years.“From traffic stops to parking tickets, Seo traces the history of cars alongside the history of crime and discovers that the two are inextricably linked.”- Smithsonian Tang’s Tang Media Partners made its big Hollywood play three years ago, first by acquiring Stuart Ford’s foreign sales, financing and production outfit IM Global and then buying Open Road and merging the two to form Global Road. “We’re going to patiently continue to acquire content via libraries.” ![]() Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Raven principal and portfolio manager James Masciello said the company would be looking to exploit the Open Road library both by licensing the finished films and developing the underlying IP for future projects. and Tupac Shakur - has so far been released in Italy, where it grossed a respectable $1.6 million. The film - in which Depp and Forest Whitaker play a police officer and a reporter, respectively, investigating the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. Open Road pulled the movie from domestic release last year just a month before it was set to hit theaters. Erich Fromm (19001980) was a bestselling psychoanalyst and social philosopher whose views about alienation, love, and sanity in societydiscussed in his books such as Escape from Freedom, The Art of Loving, The Sane Society, and To Have or To Be helped shape the landscape of psychology in the mid. Laser-focused on revenue, reach, and repeat customers, the Open Road network of digital properties produces compelling stories that keep audiences engaged across devices, content verticals, and global. ![]() Raven recently teamed with AMBI Media Group on a similar purchase of Exclusive Media Group’s library of 400 titles, including Donnie Darko, Sliding Doors and Memento, among others.īut Raven did not acquire any of Open Road’s unreleased titles, so the fate of the Johnny Depp thriller City of Lies remains uncertain. Open Road Integrated Media is a prestige content brand delivering digital experiences that entertain and inform readers around the world.
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