Monday, 1 June 2009

Key Issues in Censorship


The key themes to revise for this topic area are:

1. History of film censorship 
2. Different motives for censorship 
3. Arguments for and against censorship 
4. Debates containing effects theories

You will need to relate these to contemporary examples.

The main areas of debate surround issues like:

What is censorship and why does it happen?
What are the different kinds of self-censorship or what different kinds of material get censored?
Is censorship necessary; are there some kinds of material that need to be censored more than others?
Which kinds of material should be censored to certain groups of people and which banned altogether?

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