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Author: Julian Petley ,
Julian Petley ,
Professor Constantin V Boundas
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.364kg
ISBN: 9780748625390
ISBN 10: 0748625399
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 17 May 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A necessary, fascinating, meticulous, exasperated book on a thorny subject ... full of reasonable good sense in the face of almost surreally unreasonable, hideously entrenched, all-too-horribly British attitudes. -- Kim Newman An incisive and insightful account of the censorship business in Britain -puerile, nit-picking and pubic hair-splitting. Petley shows that the real victims are those which it pretends to protect, that pressure for repression comes from hypocritical politicians and 'popular' journalists, and that the visual media industry itself has been cowardly and complicit in muzzling the artistic freedom of its members. -- Geoffrey Robertson QC A necessary, fascinating, meticulous, exasperated book on a thorny subject ... full of reasonable good sense in the face of almost surreally unreasonable, hideously entrenched, all-too-horribly British attitudes. An incisive and insightful account of the censorship business in Britain -puerile, nit-picking and pubic hair-splitting. Petley shows that the real victims are those which it pretends to protect, that pressure for repression comes from hypocritical politicians and 'popular' journalists, and that the visual media industry itself has been cowardly and complicit in muzzling the artistic freedom of its members.
A necessary, fascinating, meticulous, exasperated book on a thorny subject ... full of reasonable good sense in the face of almost surreally unreasonable, hideously entrenched, all-too-horribly British attitudes. -- Kim Newman An incisive and insightful account of the censorship business in Britain -puerile, nit-picking and pubic hair-splitting. Petley shows that the real victims are those which it pretends to protect, that pressure for repression comes from hypocritical politicians and 'popular' journalists, and that the visual media industry itself has been cowardly and complicit in muzzling the artistic freedom of its members. -- Geoffrey Robertson QC A necessary, fascinating, meticulous, exasperated book on a thorny subject ... full of reasonable good sense in the face of almost surreally unreasonable, hideously entrenched, all-too-horribly British attitudes. An incisive and insightful account of the censorship business in Britain -puerile, nit-picking and pubic hair-splitting. Petley shows that the real victims are those which it pretends to protect, that pressure for repression comes from hypocritical politicians and 'popular' journalists, and that the visual media industry itself has been cowardly and complicit in muzzling the artistic freedom of its members.
Author Information
Julian Petley is Professor of Screen Media and Journalism in the School of Arts at Brunel University, Chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, a member of the board of Index on Censorship, and co-principal editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television. His most recent publications are Freedom of the Word (2007), Freedom of the Moving Image (co-written with Philip French, 2008) and Censorship: a Beginner's Guide (2009).
