Add to ORKGFilm and video releases in the UK are amongst the most tightly regulated in the Western World, and are subject to greater censorship than any other artistic medium. Given the popularity of film-viewing within the UK, this routine exercise of regulatory power affects almost all of us. However, following in the footsteps of Michel Foucault, I want to move beyond what Annette Kuhn might call a ‘prohibitive model’ of censorship and suggest that this power has been highly productive in its effects. In particular, what I want to demonstrate is that the wider discourses of censorship (which includes scientific studies and popular debate as well as the ‘official’ stance of the BBFC) actively constitute a particular form of contemporary spec...
It is always a pleasure for me to visit cultural premises, be it the theatre or cinema, as to feel a...
Political statements on the role of Australian film classification tend to focus on the system’s eff...
Existing research on British censorship during the 1940s has often favoured the notion that a so-cal...
Today’s media and communications seem at odds with the idea of censorship. In a digital environment,...
In performing its duties as a regulator of the moving image, the BBFC is obliged to balance the righ...
In this thesis the author argues that although questions of the spectator’s corporeal engagement wit...
This article argues that censorship studies must concern themselves with matters beyond the actions ...
Motion pictures may be the single greatest cultural influence on the collective psyche, along with t...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines censorship as “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of ...
The paper investigates the complex relationship between British genre fandom and the regulation of f...
The neoliberal character of western film regulation has, across the last two decades, oscillated bet...
With what we can call an extended concept of film censorship, this thesis investigates how different...
This article examines two aspects of Martin Barker’s work: its warnings about the dangers of politic...
In this article the author examines the public and critical reaction to the 2005 independent horror ...
First presented at the Gothenburg Film Festival (2008), at a public event at the Atlante Cinema. A d...
It is always a pleasure for me to visit cultural premises, be it the theatre or cinema, as to feel a...
Political statements on the role of Australian film classification tend to focus on the system’s eff...
Existing research on British censorship during the 1940s has often favoured the notion that a so-cal...
Today’s media and communications seem at odds with the idea of censorship. In a digital environment,...
In performing its duties as a regulator of the moving image, the BBFC is obliged to balance the righ...
In this thesis the author argues that although questions of the spectator’s corporeal engagement wit...
This article argues that censorship studies must concern themselves with matters beyond the actions ...
Motion pictures may be the single greatest cultural influence on the collective psyche, along with t...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines censorship as “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of ...
The paper investigates the complex relationship between British genre fandom and the regulation of f...
The neoliberal character of western film regulation has, across the last two decades, oscillated bet...
With what we can call an extended concept of film censorship, this thesis investigates how different...
This article examines two aspects of Martin Barker’s work: its warnings about the dangers of politic...
In this article the author examines the public and critical reaction to the 2005 independent horror ...
First presented at the Gothenburg Film Festival (2008), at a public event at the Atlante Cinema. A d...
It is always a pleasure for me to visit cultural premises, be it the theatre or cinema, as to feel a...
Political statements on the role of Australian film classification tend to focus on the system’s eff...
Existing research on British censorship during the 1940s has often favoured the notion that a so-cal...