Censoring the 1970s : The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot
ISBN: 9781443833974
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Fine Arts;

This book is a study of the British Board of Film Censors in the 1970s. In permitting and refusing specific material to be shown on cinema screens the BBFC were dictating patterns of taste and helping shape and determine notions of acceptability. Contentious and controversial texts like A Clockwork Orange (1971), Straw Dogs (1971) The Devils (1971) and Life of Brian (1979) have been used to draw attention to the way in which the BBFC operated in the 1970s. While it is true to say that these f...


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