8 New boundaries and new regions
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Sian Barber
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the period from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s. In doing so it looks both backwards though the gathering of data for the Williams committee from a range of different national and local stakeholders, and forwards to the new decade, which would be shaped by new technologies. For some local committees, business as usual continued, while for others, notably in Cornwall, long-established systems of censorship and oversight started to crumble. As always, the press was a major influence in relaying these changes taking place and drawing attention to existing regional anomalies. This was exacerbated in this period with increasing attention being given to the discrepancy between what can be shown in the cinema and what can be accessed in the home, and how the laws governing the kinds of content being shown rested on interpretations of ‘decency’, ‘obscenity’ and ‘pornography’.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the period from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s. In doing so it looks both backwards though the gathering of data for the Williams committee from a range of different national and local stakeholders, and forwards to the new decade, which would be shaped by new technologies. For some local committees, business as usual continued, while for others, notably in Cornwall, long-established systems of censorship and oversight started to crumble. As always, the press was a major influence in relaying these changes taking place and drawing attention to existing regional anomalies. This was exacerbated in this period with increasing attention being given to the discrepancy between what can be shown in the cinema and what can be accessed in the home, and how the laws governing the kinds of content being shown rested on interpretations of ‘decency’, ‘obscenity’ and ‘pornography’.
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
