This book explores censorship, particularly film and video censorship, in Japan in modern times. It shows how most censorship has been the film and video industry exercising self-censorship, but how this system has been problematic in that it has allowed dominant players in the …
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This book explores censorship, particularly film and video censorship, in Japan in modern times. It shows how most censorship has been the film and video industry exercising self-censorship and how this system has been problematic in that it has allowed dominant players in the i…
In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehea…
Introduction : context and beginnings of TV censorship -- Stockton who? -- The early years -- The NBC-TV program policies manual -- Sin, sex, and TV censorship -- Gagging the gags -- TV violence -- Postwar racial discourse -- Of truth and toilet paper -- Conclusion : a prescient…
This book examines early television censorship, centered around the papers of Stockton Helffrich, the first manager of the censorship department at NBC. Helffrich'}s reports illustrate how early censorship of advertising, language, and depictions of sex, violence, and race shape…