1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483257803321

Autore

Dukore Bernard F. <1931->

Titolo

Bernard Shaw and the Censors : Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen / / by Bernard F. Dukore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030521868

3030521869

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 261 p.)

Collana

Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries, , 2634-582X

Disciplina

822.912

301

Soggetti

Theater - History

Drama

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Playwriting

Dramatists

Actors

Motion pictures - History

Theatre History

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Playwrights and Playwriting

Performers and Practitioners

Film and TV History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Who Is the Censor? -- Chapter 2: The Critic and Emerging Playwright versus British and American Censors -- Chapter 3: Shaw's Campaign Against the Censors: Press, Public Opinion, and Parliament -- Chapter 4: Shaw and Movie Censorship in Britain and the United States -- Chapter 5: The Erosion of Stage and Screen Censorship.

Sommario/riassunto

"Dukore's style is fluid and his wit delightful. I learned a tremendous amount, as will most readers, and Bernard Shaw and the Censors will doubtless be the last word on the topic." - Michel Pharand, former



editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies and author of Bernard Shaw and the French (2001). "This book shows us a new side of Shaw and his complicated relationships to the powerful mechanisms of stage and screen censorship in the long twentieth century." - - Lauren Arrington, Professor of English, Maynooth University, Ireland A fresh view of Shaw versus stage and screen censors, this book describes Shaw as fighter and failure, whose battles against censorship - of his plays and those of others, of his works for the screen and those of others - he sometimes won but usually lost. We forget usually, because ultimately he prevailed and because his witty reports of defeats are so buoyant, they seem to describe triumphs. We think of him as a celebrity, not an outsider; as a classic, not one of the avant-garde, of which Victorians and Edwardians were intolerant; as ahead of his time, not of it, when he was called "disgusting," "immoral", and "degenerate." Yet it took over three decades and a world war before British censors permitted a public performance of Mrs Warren's Profession. We remember him as an Academy Award winner for Pygmalion, not as an author whose dialogue censors required deletions for showings in the United States. Scrutinizing the powerful stage and cinema censorship in Britain and America, this book focuses on one of its most notable campaigners against them in the last century.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996676580703316

Autore

Henderson Christian

Titolo

Contested States in War and Law

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-5292-4691-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

Monique ChuMing-chin

PriceMegan

MiklasováJúlia

PaylanSheila

Fernández-MolinaIrene

Le PavicGaëlle

KlemBart

LagerwallAnne

BryantRebecca

Disciplina

341.26

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The precarious status of contested states both reflects and begets conflict.From Taiwan to Western Sahara and from Nagorno-Karabakh to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, contested states call into question the standard categories of international law that divide inside and outside.