censorship

Lenny Bruce vs. Lenny Bruce: The Real and the Imagined

Lenny Bruce vs. Lenny Bruce: The Real and the Imagined

There are two Lenny Bruces: 1. the real-life subject of thoughtful documentaries and biographies, and 2. the TV/movie hip mentor and accidental deity.

In Praise of the Artifice in George Cukor’s ‘Sylvia Scarlett’

Huxters and Do-Gooders and the “Forbidden Fruit” Film Series

Huxters and Do-Gooders and the “Forbidden Fruit” Film Series

Have a peak behind the censored curtain, if you dare, with Dwain Esper's Marihuana and Narcotic, Crane Wilbur's Tomorrow's Children and Harry J. Revier's Child Bride. These exploitation films are certain to provoke.

How the Template for Modern Combat Journalism Developed

How the Template for Modern Combat Journalism Developed

The superbly researched Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War tells readers how Japan pioneered modern techniques of propaganda and censorship in the Russo-Japanese War.

Does Cao Fei’s Art of Chinese Industrialization and Globalization Work in a Time of Censorship?

Does Cao Fei’s Art of Chinese Industrialization and Globalization Work in a Time of Censorship?

Some might think that the influence of politics and economics in a censored art world might harm Chinese artist Cao Fei's efforts to provide real critique.

Judgment Day!: Social Protest and Censorship in EC Comics

Judgment Day!: Social Protest and Censorship in EC Comics

Scholar Qiana Whitted's EC Comics: Race, Shock & Social Protest explores a different path in EC Comic's history: their work with social justice stories and the resulting censorship in 1950s America.

On Life in Graphic Detail

Haven’t You Learned How to Take a Joke? The Comedy-on-Campus Debates

Haven’t You Learned How to Take a Joke? The Comedy-on-Campus Debates

The college comedy deficit means that we are neither taught how to take a joke nor how to interpret one.

Every F***ing Thing You Need to Know About Profanity

Every F***ing Thing You Need to Know About Profanity

Why "jeepers creepers" should be more profane than any word you (still) can't say on television, why it isn't, and why that matters.
Black Mass Murder: Extreme Metal and the PMRC

Black Mass Murder: Extreme Metal and the PMRC

A mainstream metal band like The Black Dahlia Murder is more explicit than anything the Parents Music Resource Center sought to regulate in 1985.

Can I Say That? Stand-Up Comedy in the Age of Political Correctness

The New Puritanism, or, Some Troubling Tendencies in Video Game Criticism

The New Puritanism, or, Some Troubling Tendencies in Video Game Criticism

Is the role of the video game critic to protect us from that which we may find offensive?