Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (Global Cinema)

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism. Why Does Oppression By Censorship Affect The Film Industry Far More Frequently Than Any Other Mass Media? Silencing Cinema Brings Together The Key Issues And Authors To Examine Instances Of Film Censorship Throughout The World. Including Essays By Some Of Today's Leading Film Historians, The Book Offers Groundbreaking Historical Research On Film Censorship In Major Film Production Countries, Including The United States, The United Kingdom, Russia/soviet Union, India, China, And Nigeria, Among Others. The Contributors Explore Such Innovative Themes And Topics As Film Censorship And Authorship, Genre, Language, Religion, Audiences, Political Economy, International Policy, And Colonialism. This Exciting Collection Is Thoroughly Unique In Its Broad Geographical Scope And Its Comprehensive Look At Film Censorship. -- Publisher's Description. Silencing Cinema: An Introduction / Daniel Biltereyst And Roel Vande Winkel -- Censorship, Regulation And Hegemony. All The Power Of The Law: Governmental Film Censorship In The United States / Laura Wittern-keller -- American Morality Is Not To Be Trifled With: Content Regulation In Hollywood After 1968 / Jon Lewis -- When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years Of Film Censorship In Canada / Pierre Véronneau -- Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, And Ideology In Mexican Film Censorship / Francisco M. Peredo-castro -- Control, Continuity And Change. Film Censorship In Germany: Continuity And Changes Through Five Political Systems / Martin Loiperdinger -- Seeing Red: Political Control Of Cinema In The Soviet Union / Richard Taylor -- Prohibition, Politics, And Nation Building: A History Of Film Censorship In China / Zhiwei Xiao -- Film Censorship During The Golden Era Of Turkish Cinema / Dilek Kaya Mutlu -- Colonialism, Legacy, And Policies. The Censor And The State In Great Britain / Julian Petley -- British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, And Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941 / David Newman -- We Do Not Certify Backwards: Film Censorship In Post-colonial India / Nandane Bose -- Irish Film Censorship: Refusing The Fractured Family Of Foreign Films / Kevin Rockett -- Censorship Multiplicity, Moral Regulation, And Experiences. Nollywood, Kannywood, And A Decade Of Hausa Film Censorship In Nigeria / Carmen Mccain -- The Legion Of Decency And The Movies / Gregory D. Black -- Blessed Cinema: State And Catholic Censorship In Postwar Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari -- Film Censorship In A Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies Of Film Control And Audiences' Experiences Of Censorship In Belgium / Daniel Biltereyst. Edited By Daniel Biltereyst And Roel Vande Winkel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Silencing Cinema: An Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States....Pages 15-32 “American morality is not to be trifled with”: Content Regulation in Hollywood after 1968....Pages 33-47 When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years of Film Censorship in Canada....Pages 49-62 Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, and Ideology in Mexican Film Censorship....Pages 63-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Film Censorship in Germany: Continuity and Change through Five Political Systems....Pages 81-96 Seeing Red: Political Control of Cinema in the Soviet Union....Pages 97-108 Prohibition, Politics, and Nation-Building: A History of Film Censorship in China....Pages 109-130 Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema....Pages 131-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Censor and the State in Britain....Pages 149-165 British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916–1941....Pages 167-190 “We do not certify backwards”: Film Censorship in Postcolonial India....Pages 191-206 Irish Film Censorship: Refusing the Fractured Family of Foreign Films....Pages 207-220 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 Nollywood, Kannywood, and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria....Pages 223-240 The Legion of Decency and the Movies....Pages 241-254 Blessed Cinema: State and Catholic Censorship in Postwar Italy....Pages 255-271 Film Censorship in a Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies of Film Control and Audiences’ Experiences of Censorship in Belgium....Pages 273-291 Back Matter....Pages 293-321 The first of its kind, Silencing Cinema brings together the key issues and authors in the field of film censorship research. Approaching censorship as a necessary mediating factor in discourses that govern the film industry and film culture allows for a discussion of cases of censorship that escape some of the more narrowly moralistic (or overly progressive) studies. Including essays by some of the best-known film historians working today, the book offers a state of the art of (historical) research on film censorship in major film production countries, including the US, the UK, Russia/Soviet Union, Germany, India, China, Nigeria, and Latin America- dealing with questions of the legal system(s), policies, and institutional practices in these countries. The authors concentrate on wider questions of concrete practices, themes, discourses, and cases of film censorship in such countries as Italy, Brazil, Turkey, and Northern Europe. They also explore such innovative themes and topics as international policy and colonialism; controversial/censored movies as sites of struggle for film censorship boards and other social institutions; film censorship and authorship; genre; language; religion; film censorship and audiences; the political economy of film censorship; social values; censoring movies on DVD and the Internet. This exciting collection is thoroughly unique in its broad geographical scope and its completely comprehensive look at film censorship