Tag: Censorship

Free Download David Carlton, Anne Etienne, "Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson"
English | 2008 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0199260281 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that confusion over the relationship between the Royal Prerogative and statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre censorship in Parliament until the twentieth century.

Free Download Guido Bonsaver, "Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy "
English | ISBN: 1900755955 | 2005 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 40 MB
This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucidate a fundamental area of enquiry into modern Italian history: the nature and scope of relations between the state and the cultural sphere.

Free Download Patrizia Delpiano, "Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment "
English | ISBN: 1138306630 | 2017 | 252 pages | EPUB | 572 KB
Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the strategies used by the ecclesiastical leadership to regulate the press and culture during a century characterized by important changes, from the spread of the Enlightenment to the creation of a state censorship apparatus. Based on the archival records of the Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index of Forbidden Books preserved in the Vatican, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the Catholic Church’s endeavour to keep literature and reading in check by means of censorship and the promotion of a "good" press.

Free Download Ramona A. Naddaff, "Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic"
English | ISBN: 0226567273 | 2003 | 204 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dimension of literary censorship, Naddaff brings to light Plato’s fundamental ambivalence about the value of poetic discourse in philosophical investigation.

Free Download Debora Shuger, "Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England"
English | ISBN: 0812239172 | 2006 | 360 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of why no one prior to the mid-1640s argued for free speech or a free press per se, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility surveys the texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns, which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels, conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship illegitimate.

Free Download The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code (Revised Edition) by Leonard J. Leff, Jerold L. Simmons
English | July 6, 2001 | ISBN: 0813190118 | True EPUB | 412 pages | 5.8 MB
The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s.

Free Download Mogens Laerke, "The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment"
English | 2009 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 900417558X | PDF | 2,5 mb
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, this volume studies the role censorship played in the intellectual culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how it was implemented, and how it affected the development philosophy and literary writing.

Free Download Dawn B. Sova, "Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas"
English | 2004 | pages: 417 | ISBN: 0816040184 | PDF | 1,6 mb
"Outlines the censorship history of 125 classic plays from ancient times to the present. Each entry presents the name(s) under which the play has appeared, the date and place of original production, a summary of the play, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. Additional features include playwrights’ profiles, a list of the plays grouped by reasons for banning, and a list of 100 additional challenged, censored, or banned plays"-cover. Examines the characters, Description summary, and outlines the censorship history of 125 classic plays from ancient times to present. Each entry presents the name(s) under which the play has appeared, the date and place of original production, a summary of the play, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. Additional features include playwrights’ profiles, a list of the plays grouped by reasons for banning, and a list of 100 additional challenged, censored, or banned plays. As public tastes change, so does the nature of popular drama. In the fifth century BCE, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata attracted censors for its themes, of wifely rebellion and sex. From the 15th to the 18th centuries, plays were censored primarily for religious or political reasons. In the 19th century, social and sexual reasons for censorship emerged. In recent years, plays dealing with topics such as homosexuality and AIDS have garnered attention from censors. This comprehensive guide outlines the censorship histories of 125 classic plays from ancient times to the present. Each produced and place of original production, a summary of the play, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. Among the works covered are: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Tony Kushner, 1991) Le Barbier de Seville (Pierre Beaumarchais, 1775) The children’s hour (Lillian Hellman, 1934) The crucible (Arthur Miller, 1953) Henry IV, Part 2 (William Shakespeare, 1598) Jesus Christ, Superstar (Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1971) Oedipus Rex (Sophocies, 425 BCE) Oh! Calcutta (Kenneth Tynan, 1969) Salome (Oscar Wilde, 1896) Le Tartuffe (Moii)re. 1669)Examines the characters, Description summary, and censorship history of 125 plays, and offers suggestions for further reading.

Free Download Internet censorship: protecting citizens or trampling freedom? By Christine Zuchora-Walske
2010 | 164 Pages | ISBN: 0761351183 | PDF | 53 MB
Americans are sharply divided on the issue of Internet censorship. This book examines the history of censorship in the United States as well as current federal, state, and local laws. It provides the opinions and perspectives of government and business leaders, activists, and ordinary Americans on both sides of the issue.

Free Download Gary D. Stark, "Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0857453114, 1845455703 | EPUB | pages: 342 | 2.4 mb
Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors, but still not broad enough to prevent the literary community from challenging and subverting many of the social norms the state was most determined to defend. This study is the first systematic analysis in any language of state censorship of literature and theater in imperial Germany (1871-1918). To assess the role that formal state controls played in German literary and political life during this period, it examines the intent, function, contested legal basis, institutions, and everyday operations of literary censorship as well as its effectiveness and its impact on authors, ✅Publishers, and theater directors.