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Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain PDF

232 Pages·2011·1.9 MB·English
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by Julian Petley| 2011| 232 pages| 1.9| English

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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 has developed in Britain As well as presenting a detailed analysis of the workings of the British Board of Film Classification Petley casts his gaze well beyond the BBFC to analyse the forces which the Board has to take into account when classifying and censoring These range from laws such as the Video Recordings Act and Obscene Publications Act and how these are enforced by the police and Crown Prosecution Service and interpreted by the courts to government policy on matters such as pornography In discussing a climate heavily coloured by 30 years of lurid video nasty stories propagated by a press which is at once censorious and sensationalist and which has played a key role in bringing about and legitimating one of the strictest systems of film and video DVD censorship in Europe this book is notable for the breadth of its contextual analysis its critical stance and its suggestions for reform of the present system Key features include Detailed case studies of individual instances of censorship including Last House on the Left sex videos in the R18 category and press inspired campaigns against films such as Child s Play 3 and Crash Interviews with central figuresThe author s own contemporaneous reports on key moments in the censorship process

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Author:Julian Petley
Publication Year:2011
ISBN:9780748630936
Pages:232
Language:English
File Size:1.9
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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