The PMRC Hearings With Frank Zappa, Dee Snider And John Denver
The battle against music censorship in America during the 1980s.
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If…. – Lindsay Anderson’s Upper-Class War
The key study of revolution and rebellion from 1968, the year of unrest.
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The BBFC’s Harmful Research
The British Censor’s new research is simply a questionnaire telling them what they wanted to hear.
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The British Censor’s Chainsaw Massacres
How the dictatorial British film censor James Ferman became an obsessive buzz kill in the 1980s.
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Marina Abramović, Microsoft And Satanic Conspiracy Theories
The strange story of how a Satanic Panic conspiracy theory about the lauded artist has re-emerged in the wake of a Microsoft promotional film.
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The Continuing Madness Of Britain’s Beer Censors
The Portman Group once again clamps down on beer company advertising to pacify the prohibitionists.
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Platz Eins – Till Lindemann’s X-Rated Music Video
The Rammstein frontman releases an X-rated experimental music video.
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The Tyranny Of The Perpetually Offended
A single complaint is all it needs to have lingerie advertising pulled – what on earth is that about?
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Turtle Power – A Grown Man’s Introduction To The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A belated discovery of a 1980s cultural phenomenon.
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The Irrational Fear Of Female Breasts
The suggestion that breasts will corrupt our youth is little more than an old fashioned fear of female sexuality.
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The New Scarlet Letter: Punishing The Immodest Women Of Social Media
The moral absolutism of Instagram and the new scarlet women of the internet.
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Bingeing On Stupidity
The advertising censors get worked up about the idea of someone having more than two pints of lager in a session.
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