Children Cinema And Censorship

Author : Sarah J. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857711328

Get Book

Children, Cinema and Censorship by Sarah J. Smith Pdf

Children make up one of cinema's largest audiences, yet from its infancy cinema has in the minds of moral watchdogs accompanied penny papers, comic books and mobile phones as a threat to children's health, morality and literacy. Mobilising original research, and writing with energy and wit, Sarah J. Smith explores the recurring debates in Britain and America about how children use and respond to the media. She focuses on a key example: the controversy surrounding children and cinema in the 1930s. Arguing that children are agents in their cinema viewing, not victims, she uncovers children's distinct cinema culture and reveals the ways in which they subverted or circumvented official censorship to regulate their own viewing of a variety of films, including "Frankenstein" and "King Kong". In an era when children are seen to be 'at risk' in so many ways, this involving book is a refreshing and illuminating read for all those interested in its subject.

Author : Noel Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786731012

Get Book

British Children's Cinema by Noel Brown Pdf

British children's films have played a part in the childhoods of generations of young people around the world for over a century. Until now, however, their cherished status has remained largely unexplored. In this book, Noel Brown relates the history of children's cinema in Britain from the early years of commercial cinema to the present day, to reveal the reasons behind its acclaim in international popular culture.Drawing on multiple sources, Brown provides in-depth analysis of a range of iconic films, including The Railway Children, The Thief of Bagdad, Bugsy Malone, the Harry Potter films,Mary Poppins, Nanny McPhee, Paddington, Oliver!, and Aardman's Wallace and Gromit series. Futhermore, he investigates industrial and commercial contexts, such as the role of the Children's Film Foundation; and includes revealing insights on changing social and cultural norms, such as the once-sacred tradition of Saturday morning cinema. Brown challenges common prejudices that children's films are inherently shallow or simplistic, revealing the often complex strategies that underpin their enduring appeal to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.In addition, he shows how the films allow a privileged access to historic cultures and the nation's political past. In doing so, Brown firmly establishes children's cinema as an important genre not only for students and scholars of film studies but also for those interested in socio-cultural history, the production and reception of popular entertainment and anyone looking for entertainment, escapism and nostalgia.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317267270

Get Book

Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality 1909-1925 (Routledge Revivals) by Annette Kuhn Pdf

First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other institutions, practices and discourses — for example ‘new’ knowledge about sexuality and organisations devoted to the promotion of public morality. Instead of censorship simply being an act of prohibition by a special institution, this work reveals the issues at work were far more complex and contradictory — opening up critical scrutiny and challenging assumptions. This title will be of interest to students of media and film studies.

Author : Nagisa Oshima
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780262650397

Get Book

Cinema, Censorship, and the State by Nagisa Oshima Pdf

The texts in this volume make up an intellectual autobiography that reveals a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film. director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith, and the films he has made since (including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Entertaining, concise, disarmingingly insightful, they trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.The writings are arranged in chronological order and cover the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Following a historical overview of the contemporary Japanese cinema, a substantial section articulates the theoretical and political rationale of 0shima's film production. Among many other topics considered in his essays, Oshima questions the economics of film production, the ethics of the documentary film, censorship (both political and sexual), and the relation of aesthetics and social taboos. A filmography and notes round out this important collection.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317267263

Get Book

Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality 1909-1925 (Routledge Revivals) by Annette Kuhn Pdf

First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other institutions, practices and discourses — for example ‘new’ knowledge about sexuality and organisations devoted to the promotion of public morality. Instead of censorship simply being an act of prohibition by a special institution, this work reveals the issues at work were far more complex and contradictory — opening up critical scrutiny and challenging assumptions. This title will be of interest to students of media and film studies.

Author : Trevor Griffiths
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748668052

Get Book

Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896-1950 by Trevor Griffiths Pdf

This book deals with the growth of cinema-going in Scotland in an extended scholarly manner, integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history.

Author : Unesco. Department of Mass Communications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Motion pictures and children
ISBN : UCBK:C027485935

Get Book

The Influence of the Cinema on Children and Adolescents by Unesco. Department of Mass Communications Pdf

Author : Aubrey Malone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786489398

Get Book

Censoring Hollywood by Aubrey Malone Pdf

Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency--culminating in a new age of restrictiveness in the movies. Such powerful arbiters of public taste as Will H. Hays of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and Joseph Breen of the Production Code Association fomented an era whereby films with contentious material were severely censored or even condemned. This held sway until rebellious filmmakers like Otto Preminger challenged the system in the 1950s, eventually resulting in the abandonment of the old regime in favor of the contemporary "G" through "NC-17" ratings system.

Author : D. Biltereyst,R. Vande Winkel,Roel Vande Winkel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137061980

Get Book

Silencing Cinema by D. Biltereyst,R. Vande Winkel,Roel Vande Winkel Pdf

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.

Author : Siân Nicholas,Tom O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136731617

Get Book

Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media by Siân Nicholas,Tom O'Malley Pdf

The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in more depth and with more attention paid to the complexities behind conventional analyses. Attention is paid to morality and regulation; empire and film; the role of women; authoritarianism; wartime and fears of treachery; and fears of cultural contamination. The book begins with essays that contextualise the theoretical and historiographical issues of the relationship between social fears, moral panics and the media. The second section provides case studies which illustrate the ways in which the media has participated in, or been seen as the source of, the creation of threats to society. Finally, the third section then shows how historical research calls into question simple assumptions about the relationship between the media and social disruption.

Author : League of Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : UOM:39015014700598

Get Book

Advisory Commission for the Protection and Welfare of Children and Young People by League of Nations Pdf

Author : European Committee on Crime Problems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UVA:X004520266

Get Book

The Cinema and the Protection of Youths by European Committee on Crime Problems Pdf

Author : Noel Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231851114

Get Book

The Children's Film by Noel Brown Pdf

Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a thorough consideration of how the genre may be defined, this volume goes on to explore how children's cinema has developed across its broad historical and geographic span, with particular reference to films from the United States, Britain, France, Denmark, Russia, India, and China. Analyzing changes and continuities in how children's film has been conceived, it argues for a fundamental distinction between commercial productions intended primarily to entertain, and non-commercial films made under pedagogical principles, and produced for purposes of moral and behavioral instruction. In elaborating these different forms, this book outlines a history of children's cinema from the early days of commercial cinema to the present, explores key critical issues, and provides case studies of major children's films from around the world.

Author : Jeremy Geltzer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476630120

Get Book

Film Censorship in America by Jeremy Geltzer Pdf

Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were censored by men like Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, the terror of Chicago's cinemas, and Myrtelle Snell, the Alabama administrator who made the slogan "Banned in Birmingham" famous. Censorship continues today, with Utah's case against Deadpool (2016) pending in federal court and Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013) versus the Texas Film Commission. This authoritative state-by-state account covers the history of film censorship and the battle for free speech in America.

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Child development
ISBN : UOM:39015003750679

Get Book

Children in the Cinema by Richard Ford Pdf