Conclusions
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Sian Barber
Abstract
As many local tastemakers discovered, controlling film is an impossible task, yet across the twentieth century substantial efforts persisted to ensure that local viewers were not simply subject to decisions made elsewhere. Local film censorship is far from straightforward, and almost entirely idiosyncratic. While some local authorities were happy to follow the lead of the BBFC and accept their decisions on a range of films – particularly in periods of relative calm and stability – the desire to have the option of making local decisions is the fundamental issue to emerge across this work. It is not simply that local councils wished to make local decisions, but that they wanted the opportunity to do so. Any threat to this legally given power was met with serious challenges, voiced from both the smallest divisions and the largest metropolitan councils.
Abstract
As many local tastemakers discovered, controlling film is an impossible task, yet across the twentieth century substantial efforts persisted to ensure that local viewers were not simply subject to decisions made elsewhere. Local film censorship is far from straightforward, and almost entirely idiosyncratic. While some local authorities were happy to follow the lead of the BBFC and accept their decisions on a range of films – particularly in periods of relative calm and stability – the desire to have the option of making local decisions is the fundamental issue to emerge across this work. It is not simply that local councils wished to make local decisions, but that they wanted the opportunity to do so. Any threat to this legally given power was met with serious challenges, voiced from both the smallest divisions and the largest metropolitan councils.
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
