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Book SynopsisOppression 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.
Trade Review"This is an excellent book with a wide-ranging group of essays covering film censorship on a global scale . . . Compelling, revealing, and passionate, this is a book that demands attention. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." - CHOICE (W. W. Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
"By shedding light on the different nuances and complexities of film censorship around the world, this collection contributes new insights to the field of cinema studies . . . This is a scholarly but accessible book, likely to attract academics who work on cinema, censorship and transnational culture(s) more generally, but also recommended to undergraduates and other readers interested in the topic." - The Kelvingrove Review
"In times like these, when everything seems to be allowed and no taboo is left unexplored, the desire for censorship seems strange. However, the contributions to "Silencing Cinema" make clear that the call for censorship is as old as film history itself, and that censorship is not limited to top-down pressures that led to the banning of certain films or certain subjects (as in Nazi-Germany and Soviet-Russia), or to blocking particular scenes (e.g. nudity and violence in Hollywood). The book indicates that censorship permeates all levels of society: it is in the minds of legislators, filmmakers and viewers, and it influences their actions, their viewing habits and experiences. ( ) The articles in this book give a general and at the same time well-nuanced history of many years of censorship as well as its influence on film production and film distribution in a series of countries. Where necessary, the articles highlight complex film censorship practices as those in the USA, or they introduce a totally unknown history as that of the Nigerian film censorship. (...) In that sense, the editors prove that the book's subtitle "Film Censorship around the World" is completely justified." - Gerwin van der Pol, Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenchappen, 2014, 42 [2]: 208-209
Table of ContentsSilencing Cinema: An Introduction; D.Biltereyst & R.Vande Winkel PART I: CENSORSHIP, REGULATION, AND HEGEMONY All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States; L.Wittern-Keller American Morality Is Not to Be Trifled With : Content Regulation in Hollywood after 1968; J.Lewis When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years of Film Censorship in Canada; P.Véronneau Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, and Ideology in Mexican Film Censorship; F.M.Peredo-Castro PART II: CONTROL, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE Film Censorship in Germany: Continuity and Changes through Five Political Systems; M.Loiperdinger Seeing Red: Political Control of Cinema in the Soviet Union; R.Taylor Prohibition, Politics, and Nation Building: A History of Film Censorship in China; Z.Xiao Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema; D.K.Mutlu PART III: COLONIALISM, LEGACY, AND POLICIES The Censor and the State in Great Britain; J.Petley British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941; D.Newman 'We do not certify backwards': Film Censorship in Post-Colonial India; N.Bose Irish Film Censorship: Refusing the Fractured Family of Foreign Films; K.Rockett PART IV: CENSORSHIP MULTIPLICITY, MORAL REGULATION, AND EXPERIENCES Nollywood, Kannywood, and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria; C.McCain The Legion of Decency and the Movies; G.D.Black Blessed Cinema: State and Catholic Censorship in Post-war Italy; D.T.Gennari Film Censorship in a Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies of Film Control and Audience's Experiences of Censorship in Belgium; D.Biltereyst
