Author: Bernard Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316432467
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and remain a crucial point of reference for discussions on obscenity and censorship. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, and with a specially commissioned preface written by Onora O'Neill, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this abridged edition of Bernard Williams's Report presents all the main findings and arguments of the full report, central to which is the application of Mill's 'harm principle' and the conclusion that restrictions are out of place where no harm can be reasonably thought to be done.
Obscenity and Film Censorship
Author: Bernard Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316432467
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and remain a crucial point of reference for discussions on obscenity and censorship. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, and with a specially commissioned preface written by Onora O'Neill, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this abridged edition of Bernard Williams's Report presents all the main findings and arguments of the full report, central to which is the application of Mill's 'harm principle' and the conclusion that restrictions are out of place where no harm can be reasonably thought to be done.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316432467
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and remain a crucial point of reference for discussions on obscenity and censorship. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, and with a specially commissioned preface written by Onora O'Neill, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this abridged edition of Bernard Williams's Report presents all the main findings and arguments of the full report, central to which is the application of Mill's 'harm principle' and the conclusion that restrictions are out of place where no harm can be reasonably thought to be done.
Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Obscenity and Film Censorship - an Abridgement of the Williams Report
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Author: United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive
Author: Stephen Tropiano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0879104546
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the “cinematic envelope” with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned, censored, and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded “controversial” at the time of their release due to explicit language, nudity, graphic sex, violence, and their treatment of “adult” subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation, Anatomy of a Murder, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Passion of the Christ.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0879104546
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the “cinematic envelope” with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned, censored, and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded “controversial” at the time of their release due to explicit language, nudity, graphic sex, violence, and their treatment of “adult” subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation, Anatomy of a Murder, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Passion of the Christ.
Movies, Censorship, and the Law
Author: Ira H. Carmen
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Silencing Cinema
Author: D. Biltereyst
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137061987
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137061987
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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.
The Miracle Case
Author: Laura Wittern-Keller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Examines the Supreme Court's unanimous 1952 decision in favor of a film exhibitor who had been denied a license to show the controversial Italian film, Il Miracolo. The ruling was a watershed event in the history of film censorship, ushering in a new era of mature--and sophisticated--American filmmaking.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Examines the Supreme Court's unanimous 1952 decision in favor of a film exhibitor who had been denied a license to show the controversial Italian film, Il Miracolo. The ruling was a watershed event in the history of film censorship, ushering in a new era of mature--and sophisticated--American filmmaking.
A Matter of Obscenity
Author: Christopher Hilliard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.