7 New categories, new permissions
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Sian Barber
Abstract
While the liberalising trends of the 1960s had seen the removal of censorship for British theatre performances, the early 1970s were characterised by increased pressure-group action against film and the surge of the religious and political right. This difficult and contradictory climate, with its slew of complicated and contentious films, made for a complex period to be negotiated. This chapter addresses all of these issues through local decision-making, and ends in 1976, with the announcement of a commission to consider obscenity and film censorship led by Professor Bernard Williams, with a specific brief to review the system of film censorship currently in place in England and Wales.
Abstract
While the liberalising trends of the 1960s had seen the removal of censorship for British theatre performances, the early 1970s were characterised by increased pressure-group action against film and the surge of the religious and political right. This difficult and contradictory climate, with its slew of complicated and contentious films, made for a complex period to be negotiated. This chapter addresses all of these issues through local decision-making, and ends in 1976, with the announcement of a commission to consider obscenity and film censorship led by Professor Bernard Williams, with a specific brief to review the system of film censorship currently in place in England and Wales.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- List of acronyms vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 A new form of leisure 15
- 2 New regions and new anxieties 43
- 3 Councils, committees and the perils of the cinema 64
- 4 Wartime concerns and local anxieties 103
- 5 The changing landscape of the post-war world 137
- 6 Local alliances in a permissive decade 164
- 7 New categories, new permissions 191
- 8 New boundaries and new regions 228
- Conclusions 250
- Films cited 255
- Bibliography 259
- Index 269
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- List of acronyms vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 A new form of leisure 15
- 2 New regions and new anxieties 43
- 3 Councils, committees and the perils of the cinema 64
- 4 Wartime concerns and local anxieties 103
- 5 The changing landscape of the post-war world 137
- 6 Local alliances in a permissive decade 164
- 7 New categories, new permissions 191
- 8 New boundaries and new regions 228
- Conclusions 250
- Films cited 255
- Bibliography 259
- Index 269
