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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Main Author: Petley, Julian (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a Appendix: The DPP List of 'Video Nasties'Bibliography; Index. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. 
520 |a 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 figures The author's own contemporaneous reports on key moments in the censorship process. 
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