censorship
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
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?
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
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.
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
Black Mass Murder: Extreme Metal and the PMRC
The New Puritanism, or, Some Troubling Tendencies in Video Game Criticism
Monty Python vs. the Religious Right
The Life of Brian tells us much about a period when disparate cultural values were battled over in a dramatic tug-of-war on the frontlines of society -- and for Monty Python, the threat of prison loomed.