Ebook: Silencing cinema: film censorship around the world

Silencing cinema: an introduction / Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel -- Censorship, regulation and hegemony. All the power of the law: governmental film censorship in the United States / Laura Wittern-Keller -- American morality is not to be trifled with: content regulation in Hollywood after 1968 / Jon Lewis -- When cinema faces social values: one hundred years of film censorship in Canada / Pierre Véronneau -- Inquisition shadows: politics, religion, diplomacy and ideology in Mexican film censorship / Francisco M. Peredo-Castro -- Control, continuity and change. Film censorship in Germany: continuity and changes through five political systems / Martin Loiperdinger -- Seeing red: political control of cinema in the Soviet Union / Richard Taylor -- Prohibition, politics and nation building: a history of film censorship in China / Zhiwei Xiao -- Film censorship during the golden era of Turkish cinema / Dilek Kaya Mutlu -- Colonialism, legacy and policies. The censor and the state in Great Britain / Julian Petley -- British colonial censorship regimes: Hong Kong, Straits settlements and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941 / David Newman -- "We do not certify backwards": film censorship in post-colonial India / Nandana Bose -- Irish film censorship: refusing the fractured family of foreign films / Kevin Rockett -- Censorship multiplicity, moral regulation and experiences. Nollywood, Kannywood and a decade of Hausa film censorship in Nigeria / Carmen McCain -- The legion of decency and the movies / Gregory D. Black -- Blessed cinema: state and Catholic censorship in post-war Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari -- Film censorship in a liberal free market democracy: strategies of film control and audience's experiences of censorship in Belgium / Daniel Biltereyst.;"Why does oppression by censorship affect the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media? Silencing Cinema brings together the key issues and authors to examine instances of film censorship throughout the world. Including essays by some of today's leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia/Soviet Union, India, China, and Nigeria, among others. The contributors explore such innovative themes and topics as film censorship and authorship, genre, language, religion, audiences, political economy, international policy, and colonialism. This exciting collection is thoroughly unique in its broad geographical scope and its comprehensive look at film censorship."--Page 4 de la couverture.