Adult themes : British cinema and the X certificate in the long 1960s /

"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"--

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Other Authors: Etienne, Anne (Editor), Halligan, Benjamin (Editor), Weedman, Christopher (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Series:Global exploitation cinemas.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : '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.