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The British Board of Film Censors
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This chapter traces the origins of film censorship in Great Britain, in particular the development of the British Board of Film Censors, which was managed by Joseph Brooke Wilkinson over the years Alfred Hitchcock was directing films in England. The chapter cites examples of the Board’s general impact on film production in the UK and on Hitchcock in particular. In comparison with American film censorship, with its emphasis on sex and violence, British censors proved to be more interested in social and political issues. Their concern for worker strikes caused them to ban the classic Battleship Potemkin for over twenty years.
Title: The British Board of Film Censors
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This chapter traces the origins of film censorship in Great Britain, in particular the development of the British Board of Film Censors, which was managed by Joseph Brooke Wilkinson over the years Alfred Hitchcock was directing films in England.
The chapter cites examples of the Board’s general impact on film production in the UK and on Hitchcock in particular.
In comparison with American film censorship, with its emphasis on sex and violence, British censors proved to be more interested in social and political issues.
Their concern for worker strikes caused them to ban the classic Battleship Potemkin for over twenty years.
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