Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (17 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Silencing Cinema
-
Censorship, Regulation, and Hegemony
-
Front Matter
-
-
Control, Continuity, and Change
-
Front Matter
-
-
Colonialism, Legacy, and Policies
-
Front Matter
-
-
Censorship Multiplicity,Moral Regulation, and Experiences
-
Front Matter
-
About this book
Reviews
"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
About the authors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Silencing Cinema
Book Subtitle: Film Censorship around the World
Editors: Daniel Biltereyst, Roel Vande Winkel
Series Title: Global Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137061980
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34080-0Published: 18 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34081-7Published: 18 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06198-0Published: 26 March 2013
Series ISSN: 2634-5951
Series E-ISSN: 2634-596X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 321
Topics: Film History, Social History, Screen Studies, Cultural History, Arts, Media Studies