Sources
General
- Most newspapers carry an arts section that examines the world of film.
- Index on Censorship.
The journal covers all manner of issues on censorship and human rights. Volume 24, 6(10) is an especially relevant source of articles on film censorship.
Specific - most web pages contain frames and graphics Links checked 21/05/97.
- South African Freedom of Expression Institute Homepage.
Although it is not, in the main, directly connected to film censorship in Britain, it does cover censorship issues, and contains a list of other relevant links to other like-minded institutions.
- Index on Censorship site.
It contains an electronic copy of the current issue of the journal, and up-to-date information on aspects of censorship.
- Video Standards Council.
It contains information about film classification.
- The File Room.
A forum for people to quote cases of censorship they have encountered.
- Body Politic.
This source was included to show the strong emotions and types of film that censorship has to deal with. This page deals with views from the then Director of the British Board of Film Censorship.
- Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship. (1979) Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship.
An examination of the official stance towards film censorship.
- Keough, P. (Ed.) (1995) Flesh and Blood: National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence and Censorship. Mercury House, US.
Views on film censorship, which, although from America, offer insight into the issue.
- Mathews, T. D. (1994) Censored! : What They Didn't Allow You to See, and Why - Story of Film Censorship in Britain. Chatto.
A history of banned and cut films, which not only examines aspects of film censorship, but suggests reasons for its occurrence.
- Robertson, J. C. (1993) Hidden Cinema : British Film Censorship in Action, 1913-72. Cinema & Society. Routledge.
The history of film censorship in Britain to give background understanding to the present situation today.
- Warnock, M. (1980) The Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship. Political Quarterly. July-September. p341.
An influential report into British film censorship.
- Chronicle of the Cinema. 1995 Dorling Kindersley Publishing Ltd. R Karney (ed)
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