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British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s
Herausgeber: Etienne, Anne; Weedman, Christopher; Walker, Johnny; Halligan, Benjamin; Fisher, Austin

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Produktbeschreibung

"Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an "X" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside new and emerging social and sexual practices of the time"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501375255
• ISBN-10: 1501375253
• Artikelnr.: 70273336

Autorenporträt

Anne Etienne is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama at University College Cork, Ireland, and her research focuses on theatre censorship and Arnold Wesker. Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and his research focuses on film history, music and media, and critical theory. Christopher Weedman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA, where his research focuses on mid-twentieth century British and American cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: 'Passed As Only
Suitable for Exhibition to Adult Audiences: X' Anne Etienne (University
College Cork, Ireland), Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton,
UK), and Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) 1.
Green Penguin Films Kim Newman (Independent Scholar) 2. The Commercial
Idealism of Controversial Cinema: Raymond Stross and the Censorship of The
Flesh Is Weak Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
3. Colour, Realism and the X Certificate: Horrors of the Black Museum and
Peeping Tom Sarah Street (University of Bristol, UK) 4. Mediating Desire:
Karel Reisz's Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Simon Lee
(Texas State University, USA) 5. Lolita, Censorship, and Controversy: The
Archival Remains of the Dispute Between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley
Kubrick James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 6. Paternalism,
Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: The Party's Over and the Pre-Swinging
Set Kevin M. Flanagan (George Mason University, USA) 7. Mediatising
Modernity: Femininity in the X-Rated Swinging London Film Moya Luckett
(Texas State University, USA) 8. What Are the X-Rated Secrets of the
Windmill Girls? Adrian Smith (Independent Scholar) 9. The Potent Sexuality
of the Middle-Aged Woman: Alice Aisgill, Karen Stone, Zee Blakeley and Ruby
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 10. Censoring Carmilla:
Lesbian Vampires in Hammer Horror Claire Henry (Massey University, Aotearoa
New Zealand) 11. 'The horror film to end all horror films': 10 Rillington
Place and the British Board of Film Censors' Shifting Policy on True Crime
TimSnelson (University of East Anglia, UK) 12. Class and Classification:
The British Board of Film Censors' Reception of Horror at the Time of the
Festival of Light Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
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