Film and video censorship in modern Britain / Julian Petley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petley, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Censorship--Great Britain--History.

Motion pictures.

Home video systems--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Home video systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why and how film and video censorship has developed in Britain since the birth of the domestic video industry in 1979.

Contents:

Contents; 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

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

Appendix: The DPP List of 'Video Nasties'Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]- 220) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-22161-6

9786613221612

0-7486-3093-7

OCLC:

731646870