Censored Books
Censored Books

Author: Nicholas J. Karolides

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780810840386

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A collection of essays confronting the censorship issue, including six authors' views and defenses of individual books.

Hollywood's Censor
Hollywood's Censor

Author: Thomas Doherty

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0231512848

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From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one of the most powerful men in the motion picture industry. As enforcer of the puritanical Production Code, Breen dictated "final cut" over more movies than anyone in the history of American cinema. His editorial decisions profoundly influenced the images and values projected by Hollywood during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Cultural historian Thomas Doherty tells the absorbing story of Breen's ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign. Breen vetted story lines, blue-penciled dialogue, and excised footage (a process that came to be known as "Breening") to fit the demands of his strict moral framework. Empowered by industry insiders and millions of like-minded Catholics who supported his missionary zeal, Breen strove to protect innocent souls from the temptations beckoning from the motion picture screen. There were few elements of cinematic production beyond Breen's reach he oversaw the editing of A-list feature films, low-budget B movies, short subjects, previews of coming attractions, and even cartoons. Populated by a colorful cast of characters, including Catholic priests, Jewish moguls, visionary auteurs, hardnosed journalists, and bluenose agitators, Doherty's insightful, behind-the-scenes portrait brings a tumultuous era and an individual both feared and admired to vivid life.

Giving Offense
Giving Offense

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0226111776

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Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship. From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the arguments of Catharine MacKinnon for the suppression of pornography and traces the operations of the old South African censorship system. "The most impressive feature of Coetzee's essays, besides his ear for language, is his coolheadedness. He can dissect repugnant notions and analyze volatile emotions with enviable poise."—Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Those looking for simple, ringing denunciations of censorship's evils will be disappointed. Coetzee explicitly rejects such noble tritenesses. Instead . . . he pursues censorship's deeper, more fickle meanings and unmeanings."—Kirkus Reviews "These erudite essays form a powerful, bracing criticism of censorship in its many guises."—Publishers Weekly "Giving Offense gets its incisive message across clearly, even when Coetzee is dealing with such murky theorists as Bakhtin, Lacan, Foucault, and René; Girard. Coetzee has a light, wry sense of humor."—Bill Marx, Hungry Mind Review "An extraordinary collection of essays."—Martha Bayles, New York Times Book Review "A disturbing and illuminating moral expedition."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Lincoln's Censor
Lincoln's Censor

Author: David W. Bulla

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 155753473X

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"Lincoln's Censor examines the effect of government suppression on the Democratic press in Indiana during the spring of 1863. Indiana's Democratic newspaper editors were subject to Milo S. Hascall's General Order Number Nine, which proclaimed that all newspaper editors and public speakers that encouraged resistance to the draft or any other war measure would be treated as traitors. Brigadier General Hascall, commander of the District of Indiana, was amplifying General Order Number Thirty-eight of Major General Ambrose Everts Burnside, the commander of the Department of the Ohio. Burnside's order declared that criticism of the president and the war effort was tantamount to "declaring sympathies with the enemy." Eleven Democratic newspapers in Indiana faced suspension." "The author found that Democratic newspapers in majority Republican counties were more likely to face suppression, even if constraints on the Democratic press were more necessary in majority Democratic counties. The study concludes that while a temporary chilling effect occurred in Indiana, the free-press tradition survived in the long run."--BOOK JACKET.

The Political Censor, Or Monthly Review of the Most Interesting Political Occurrences, Relative to the United States of America. by Peter Porcupine
The Political Censor, Or Monthly Review of the Most Interesting Political Occurrences, Relative to the United States of America. by Peter Porcupine

Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS.

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781385182956

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library P006084 'Peter Porcupine' = William Cobbett. Portion of title repeated as caption, with date of issue. September 1796 issue has variant title. Imprint includes year of publication. Imprints vary; Sept. 1796 reads in part: "Printed for, and sold by, William Cobbett." Originally issued in wrappers; note on Mar. 1796 wrapper reads in part: "This work will be published on the last day of every month. Six Censors will make a volume, the sixth will ... contain a general index and table of contents." Text of Mar. to May issues has continuous pagination, apart from preliminary leaves; Sept. issue paginated separately. Includes reports and commentary on the political situation in the United States. Author is anti-democratic, anti-French, anti-Thomas Paine. Sept. issue includes excerpts from George Chalmers' hostile biography of Paine. Note in the Sept. issue reads in part: "The history of Jacobinism will be published in the course of the next month [i.e. Oct. 1796], after which, the Political censor will be continued monthly, without interruption." Philadelphia [Penn.]: printed for Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-Street, MDCCXCVI. [1796]. v.; 21 cm (8°)