Interpreting Censorship in Canada / / ed. by Allan Hutchinson, Klaus Petersen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Axelrod, Paul,; Bakan, Joel,; Cooper, Barry,; Curry, Ann,; Esses, Victoria M.,; Hutchinson, Allan C.,; LaSelva, Samuel V.,; Leiss, William,; Lorimer, Rowland,; Manley-Casimir, Michael,; Marlin, Randal,; McDougall, Allan K.,; Miljan, Lydia,; Olson, James M.,; Petersen, Klaus,; Ryder, Bruce,; Shariff, Shaheen,; Theall, Donald F.,; Valentine, Lisa Philips,; Valverde, Mariana,; Watson, Scott,; Weir, Lorraine,; Whitaker, Reg,
• HerausgeberIn: Hutchinson, Allan,; Petersen, Klaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

It has been part of the liberal tradition to decry censorship in all its forms, and to attempt to separate censorship from democratic forms of government. There has been as yet no real attempt to integrate censorship into political theory. The twenty-three contributors to this book view censorship pragmatically. They aim to treat it as a constituent feature of any system of social control or practice. By capturing and analyzing the social, political, cultural and economic components of restriction of freedom of expression and access to information, they go beyond the merely ideological pro and anti censorship arguments, exposing the extent of censorship in Canada today, exploring its structures, and showing what it reveals about our political culture.Because censorship manifests itself in so many ways, the diversity of approach of this book contributes to the authors purpose - to enhance our awareness to not only the practice of censorship, but also how talk about censorship as an expression of changes in thoughts, values, and social behaviour over time.Despite their different approaches, the contributors to this volume agree in their perception of censorship as a value-driven instrument of power. It is not their intention to deride this control as such. Socially organized activity cannot occur without censorship, and the questions concern forms of censorship, the implementation of censorship, and the interests served.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Censorship! Or Is It? -- 2. Chameleon on a Changing Background: The Politics of Censorship in Canada -- 3. Pluralism and Hate: Freedom, Censorship, and the Canadian Identity -- 4. Judging Speech: An Inquiry into the Supreme Court's Theory of Signification -- 5. Beyond Censorship: An Essay on Free Speech and Law -- 6. The Censorship of Commercial Speech, with Special Reference to Tobacco Product Advertising -- 7. Undercover Censorship: Exploring the History of the Regulation of Publications in Canada -- 8. Censorship in Schools: Orthodoxy, Diversity, and Cultural Coherence -- 9. Walking the Tightrope: Management of Censorship Attempts in Canadian Libraries -- 10. The Ethos of Censorship in English-Canadian Literature: An Ontopornosophical Approach -- 11. 'Pornography Disguised as Art': Some Recent Episodes concerning Censorship and the Visual Arts in Canada -- 12. Canada, Censorship, and the Internet -- 13. The Social Psychology of Censorship -- 14. The Muted Bugle: Self-Censorship and the Press -- 15. Censorship by Inadvertence? Selectivity in the Production of TV News -- 16. Selective Marginalization of Aboriginal Voices: Censorship in Public Performance -- 17. The Ironies of Academic Freedom -- 18. The Market and Professional Censorship of Canadian School Textbooks -- 19. Sense and Censorship: Towards a Different Account of Expressive Freedom -- Appendix: Film Censorship -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index