The relationship between alcoholic beverages media Agenda-setting in Oscar-winning movies during 1927-1933 and the repeal of the Prohibition law in the USA

Media coverage of illegal cases has always been a source of controversy. which are carried out under titles such as the right to freedom of expression and freedom of access to information, or following different interpretations of the limits of the forbidden matter, become the normalization of the forbidden matters and go as far as the laws of that subject.This research concerning the “Agenda-setting theory” with the assumption of an existing positive relationship between media coverage of Intensification unlawful cases and law-breaking movement in the cinema, has studied a piece of historical evidence on this subject. The goal of this research is an inspection of the relationship between alcoholic beverage media agenda-setting in Oscar-winning movies in the years leading to the repeal of the Prohibition law in 1933 in the USA. In this regard, at first, a short history of the prohibition of alcoholic liquors, the cinema status in the Prohibition years, and the importance of Oscar awards are explained and after quantitative content analysis of mentioned movies, the findings and results are presented.