Tuesday, 25 March 2014

25th march

"Film censorship is motivated by fears about audiences and technologies" Discuss this statement in reference to the concerns expressed about uncensored and unregulated video content in Britain in the early 1980s.

Piracy - no check on certificate
Devalues technology and film 
Developing technology allows people to pirate them and steal 

Longer lasting videos- lower cinema attendance
Illegal but video certificates can not be checked when at home 

Censorship- graphic violence, rape, pornographic sex scenes 
Censored movies- can't see at the movies, made the popular to see what the fuss was about 
Being told it's bad by Margaret thatcher, Conservative party 

The human centipede 2- censored 
People might act upon it
Clockwork orange- rape as violence, teenage character 
Morally wrong 

Government- censored films but they hadn't watched them 
Upper class protecting working class
Nanny state- treated like children 

Moral panic
Scape goat

Low budget- more realistic 

Remove phalic images 
Nudity 
"Lesbians and homos"
Teddy boys 
Years later the wild one was allowed to be shown 

1971- scandal movies
The director had death threats to his family so he withdrew clockwork orange from being shown in England 
Video nasties horrific enough to seized by  the police 
Moral panic- introduce classification 
News- links disasters to films 

Technology; home video 

Political; conservative government sought to protect by putting age regulations and restrictions 
Mortality, video nasties- censorships

Social; riots against Margaret thatcher, so they waited for campaigns against video nasties to step in, Mary whitehouse 
Media, scape goat, moral panic 

Economic;cinema attendance declined, low budget made for a niche audience 

Modern day, horror films which were censored have now been remade as society has been exposed and therefore are more lenient- Texas chainsaw 
Influential to the film industry 

Case studies;
Texas chainsaw 
I spit on your grave 
Evil dead 
Driller killed 








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