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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Silencing cinema (DLC) 2012046505 (OCoLC)826015999 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniël Biltereyst; Roel Vande Winkel |
ISBN: | 9781137061980 1137061987 9780230340800 0230340806 9780230340817 0230340814 |
OCLC Number: | 834127807 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Silencing cinema: an introduction / Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel -- Censorship, regulation and hegemony. All the power of the law: governmental film censorship in the United States / Laura Wittern-Keller -- American morality is not to be trifled with: content regulation in Hollywood after 1968 / Jon Lewis -- When cinema faces social values: one hundred years of film censorship in Canada / Pierre Véronneau -- Inquisition shadows: politics, religion, diplomacy and ideology in Mexican film censorship / Francisco M. Peredo-Castro -- Control, continuity and change. Film censorship in Germany: continuity and changes through five political systems / Martin Loiperdinger -- Seeing red: political control of cinema in the Soviet Union / Richard Taylor -- Prohibition, politics and nation building: a history of film censorship in China / Zhiwei Xiao -- Film censorship during the golden era of Turkish cinema / Dilek Kaya Mutlu -- Colonialism, legacy and policies. The censor and the state in Great Britain / Julian Petley -- British colonial censorship regimes: Hong Kong, Straits settlements and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941 / David Newman -- "We do not certify backwards": film censorship in post-colonial India / Nandane Bose -- Irish film censorship: refusing the fractured family of foreign films / Kevin Rockett -- Censorship multiplicity, moral regulation and experiences. Nollywood, Kannywood and a decade of Hausa film censorship in Nigeria / Carmen McCain -- The legion of decency and the movies / Gregory D. Black -- Blessed cinema: state and Catholic censorship in post-war Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari -- Film censorship in a liberal free market democracy: strategies of film control and audience's experiences of censorship in Belgium / Daniel Biltereyst. |
Series Title: | Global cinema. |
Responsibility: | edited by Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel. |
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"This is an excellent book with a wide-ranging group of essays covering film censorship on a global scale . . . Compelling, revealing, and passionate, this is a book that demands attention. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." - CHOICE (W. W. Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)"By shedding light on the different nuances and complexities of film censorship around the world, this collection contributes new insights to the field of cinema studies . . . This is a scholarly but accessible book, likely to attract academics who work on cinema, censorship and transnational culture(s) more generally, but also recommended to undergraduates and other readers interested in the topic." - The Kelvingrove Review"In times like these, when everything seems to be allowed and no taboo is left unexplored, the desire for censorship seems strange. However, the contributions to "Silencing Cinema" make clear that the call for censorship is as old as film history itself, and that censorship is not limited to top-down pressures that led to the banning of certain films or certain subjects (as in Nazi-Germany and Soviet-Russia), or to blocking particular scenes (e.g. nudity and violence in Hollywood). The book indicates that censorship permeates all levels of society: it is in the minds of legislators, filmmakers and viewers, and it influences their actions, their viewing habits and experiences. ( ) The articles in this book give a general and at the same time well-nuanced history of many years of censorship as well as its influence on film production and film distribution in a series of countries. Where necessary, the articles highlight complex film censorship practices as those in the USA, or they introduce a totally unknown history as that of the Nigerian film censorship. (...) In that sense, the editors prove that the book's subtitle "Film Censorship around the World" is completely justified." - Gerwin van der Pol, Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenchappen, 2014, 42 [2]: 208-209 Read more...

