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The British Board of Film Censors and content control in the 1930s: images of Britain

Jeffrey Richards
- 01 Jan 1981 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 2, pp 95-116
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The British Board of Film Censors and content control in the 1930s: images of Britain this article was the first attempt to tackle the problem of censorship in the British film industry.
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(1981). The British Board of Film Censors and content control in the 1930s: images of Britain. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-116.

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The Politics of Cold War Culture

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Cultural governance and the formation of public service broadcasting: The early years.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the BBC and its public service ethos is better reconsidered as a civilising mission whose political rationality was to render the listening public more amenable to cultural governance, and demonstrate that early broadcasting can be seen to function as a political technology that facilitated governance from a distance, thus overcoming the paradoxical concern of liberal governmentality, the danger of 'over-governing'.
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English History 1914-1945

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English History, 1914-1945

TL;DR: The Great War: Old Style, 1914-15. 2: The Pressures of War, 1915-16. 3: A Nation at War, 1916-18. 4: Postwar, 1918-22. 5: Normal Times: 1922. 6: Three-party politics, 1922-5. 7: The Years of Gold, 1925-9. 8: Unexpected Crisis, 1929-31. 9: Half Time.
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Footnotes to the film

Charles Davy