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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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text file |
| 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. |
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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. |
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Appendix: The DPP List of 'Video Nasties'Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Why and how film and video censorship has developed in Britain since the birth of the domestic video industry in 1979. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Censorship -- Great Britain -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Censorship. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Home video systems -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Home video systems -- Social aspects. |
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Home video systems. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Petley, Julian. Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011 9780748625390 |
| ISBN |
9780748630936 |
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0748630937 |
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9780748625383 |
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0748625380 |
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9780748625390 |
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0748625399 |
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9786613221612 |
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