A Clockwork Orange

The history of cinema is littered with controversies, but few films have provoked as much moral panic as Stanley Kubrick’s *A Clockwork Orange* (1971). While earlier scandals—like *Ecstasy*’s orgasmic sighs—revolved around sex, the cultural upheavals of the 1960s shifted taboos toward violence. By the 1970s, directors like Sam Peckinpah and Wes Craven were gleefully dismantling the remnants of Hays Code prudery, but…