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Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain.

How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is it too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video industry - and the first year of the Thatcher government - this critical study explains how the censorship of films both in cinemas and on video and DVD h...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petley, Julian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; The persistence of censorship; The apparatus of censorship; The role of the press; Moral panic and moral regulation; 'Rules, order and proper pehaviour'; Note; Part I
  • 'Censorious Rigmarole and Legalistic Overkill'; Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1
  • A Nasty Story; Chapter 2
  • Nastier Still; Chapter 3
  • Two or Three Things I Know About 'Video Nasties'; Part II
  • After the Deluge; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4
  • 'The Tenor of the Times': An Interview with James Ferman.
  • Chapter 5
  • 'Reading Society Aright': Five Years after the Video Recordings ActChapter 6
  • The Video Image; Part III
  • Nineties Nightmares; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 7
  • 'Not Suitable for Home Viewing'; Chapter 8
  • Vicious Drivel and Lazy Sluts; Chapter 9
  • Doing Harm; Chapter 10
  • The Anatomy of a Newspaper Campaign: Crash; Chapter 11
  • The Last Battle, or Why Makin' Whoopee! Matters; Part IV
  • New Millennium, New Beginning?; Introduction to Part IV; Chapter 12
  • 'The Way Things Are Now': AnInterview with Robin Duval; Chapter 13
  • The Limits of the Possible; Chapter 14
  • Full Circle.
  • Appendix: The DPP List of 'Video Nasties'Bibliography; Index.