Adult themes British cinema and the X certificate in the long 1960s / edited by Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan and Christopher Weedman.

Other author Etienne, Anne.
Other author Halligan, Benjamin.
Other author Weedman, Christopher.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Descriptionviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Portion of title British cinema and the X certificate in the long 1960s
SeriesGlobal exploitation cinemas
Contents 'Passed as only suitable for exhibition to adult audiences : X' / Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan, and Christopher Weedman -- Green Penguin Films / Kim Newman -- The commercial idealism of controversial cinema : Raymond Stross and the censorship of The flesh is weak / Christopher Weedman -- Colour, realism and the X certificate : Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom / Sarah Street -- Mediating desire : Karel Reisz's adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / Simon Lee -- Lolita, censorship, and controversy : the archival remains of the dispute between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley Kubrick / James Fenwick -- Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X certificate : The Party's Over and the Pre-swinging set / Kevin M. Flanagan -- Mediatising modernity : femininity in the X-rated swinging London film / Moya Luckett -- What are the X-rated secrets of the Windmill Girls? / Adrian Smith -- The potent sexuality of the middle-aged woman : Alice Aisgill, Karen Stone, Zee Blakeley and Ruby / Lucy Bolton -- Censoring Carmilla : lesbian vampires in Hammer horror / Claire Henry -- 'The horror film to end all horror films' : 10 Rillington Place and the British Board of Film censors' shifting policy on true crime / Tim Snelson -- Class and classification : the British Board of Film censors' reception of horror at the time of the Festival of Light / Benjamin Halligan.
Abstract "Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an "X" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside new and emerging social and sexual practices of the time"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2023003510
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