Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 261 pages)
ISBN:
9783030521868
Series Statement:
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Shaw -- Praise for Bernard Shaw and the Censors -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Who Is the Censor? -- Brief Survey of Censorship -- The Licensing Act of 1737 -- After 1737 -- The Police and Censorship -- 1832 to 1892 -- Chapter 2: The Critic and Emerging Playwright Versus British and American Censors -- One Critic, Two Censors -- A Doll's House and the Campaign for Ghosts -- The Campaign for Mrs Warren's Profession in England -- The Campaign for Mrs Warren's Profession in America -- After New York -- Chapter 3: Shaw's Campaign Against the Censors: Press, Public Opinion, and Parliament -- 1907 -- Evasions: The Minstrel Show and Ireland -- The 1909 Joint Select Committee of Parliament -- Major Witnesses in Favor of the Censorship -- Major Witnesses Opposed to the Censorship -- Other Witnesses in Favor of the Censorship -- Other Witnesses Opposed to the Censorship -- The Outcome -- From the Eve of World War I to Shaw's Death in 1950 -- Chapter 4: Shaw and Movie Censorship in Britain and the United States -- The Loophole in the Cinematograph Act -- The British Board of Film Censors -- Sex -- Propaganda -- The United States -- The Aborted Film of Saint Joan -- The English Film of Pygmalion -- The English Film of Major Barbara -- The English Film of Cæsar and Cleopatra -- Censorship of Shaw's Films, Cleric and Laic -- Chapter 5: The Erosion of Stage and Screen Censorship -- Stage Censorship -- Screen Censorship -- Brave New Millennium -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030521851
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030521851
Language:
English
Keywords:
Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950
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Theater
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Film
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Zensur
