Censored
By: Mathews, Tom
United Kingdom : Chatto & Windus Ltd : 1994Description: 30cm : 291 PagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42289ISBN: 9780701138738Subject(s): Censorship | Social Sciences | Ethical problems | ValuesDDC classification: 791.43 MAT
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
If one drew up a list of the best films ever made, then it turns out that nearly all of them have been heavily censored or banned. Lang's METROPOLIS, Chaplin's CITY STREETS, Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, Brando's THE WILD ONE and Kubrick's THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE, for instance, have all suffered from the effects of censorship. This pioneering book explores the absurdities (and occasional virtues) of censorship over the whole history of film in Britain, and places them in the context of their age. From the banning of anti-Nazi films (that continued up to 1939), to the sexual dilemmas of the 50s and 60s as the censors dealt with homosexuality, nudity, violence, drugs, rape and other subjects that came out of the closet, right up to the ludicrous limits still imposed on film-makers by the BBFC, this book is a brilliantly entertaining - but also hard-hitting - account of a control that is often political in its effect, and always contradictory.
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