Salman Rushdie : between the devil and the deep blue sea / produced by Mark Walsh and Detlef Siebert.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Siebert, Detlef.

Walsh, Mark.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Censorship.

Rushdie, Salman.

Rushdie, Salman. Satanic verses.

Freedom of the press--History--20th century.

Freedom of the press.

Islam and literature.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (43 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1998.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

This eloquent film on Salman Rushdie brings into sharp focus the conflict between freedom of expression and religious conservatism. The film opens with a short reading by Rushdie in his richly modulated voice from Haroun and the Sea, a book he wrote for his son a year after after he went into hiding. The film goes on to show the bookburnings and protests that Satanic Verses provoked thoughout Moslem communities all over the world, but most shockingly in Bradford, England. Bradford is the Islamic capital of England. There are forty mosques and many Koranic schools. Many of its inhabitants support the fatwa of Ayotollah Komeini and express their disgust at the book. Rushdie reminds us that books do not injure people; one can always close a book if it offends. In response to being labeled blasphemous, he says "this is a crude, fascist term to shut people up." At a conference on censorship, secrecy and democracy, author Gunther Grass says "no one should claim a monopoly on the truth".

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Middle East Studies Association, 1997

OCLC:

747797984

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.