censorship Archive

  • On immodest angels . . .

    Posted on May 16, 2012 | 192 Comments
    I’m not a fan of censorship.   Don’t even get me started on book banning.   So when I saw these two pictures side by side, my censorship flag went up!   The image on the left is “The Resurrection” (1873) by Carl Heinrich Bloch. […]

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  • 27 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: The CleanFlix Documentary

    Posted on April 18, 2012 | 7 Comments
    CLEANFLIX raises provocative questions about censorship and consumer rights as well as Mormon approaches to art and sex. . . .

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  • The ‘R’-rating Prohibition and ‘The King’s Speech’

    Posted on March 3, 2011 | 10 Comments
    Over on her weekly column ‘Salt and Seed’, Rosalynde Welch discusses the move away from the LDS Church teaching that ‘R’ rated movies (for it’s US members) are forbidden. She focusses on how, specifically, ‘The King’s Speech’ this year marked the demise of this former […]

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  • Fahrenheit 451

    Posted on December 10, 2010 | 21 Comments
    Truffaut’s famous adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 begins with a strange and stern voice-over against coloured close-ups of television aerials, in the place of credits. This innovative opening introduces us directly to the world of the film, where the futuristic regime has […]

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  • Banned

    Posted on December 7, 2010 | 23 Comments
    Some conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves.

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