Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain / / Julian Petley.
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 ha...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 B/W line art 1 black and white cartoon illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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 Act
- Chapter 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’: An Interview with Robin Duval
- Chapter 13 The Limits of the Possible
- Chapter 14 Full Circle
- Appendix: The DPP List of ‘Video Nasties’
- Bibliography
- Index