If we had to visualise this establishment, it would resemble an Edwardian board of aesthetic censors presided over by a stern TS Eliot type figure inherently hostile to innovation (the irony, of course, is that Eliot was the greatest revolutionary in modern poetry) and keeping a perpetually wary eye on the likes of a Terry Eagleton or a James Kelman.
In 1996, she was caught in a long and acrimonious battle with the Indian censors over her feature Kama Sutra.
A new study released this month in First Monday uncovers more than 4,000 unique keywords censored over the last year and a half on Chinese instant messaging platforms.
After painting the word "censored" over the half-finished work, he returned in time for Memorial Day last month with a second take, right, on Liberty.
The exchange has been revealed after thousands of letters between film-makers and censors over the past century were made public for the first time.
Mr. Paar had argued with NBC censors over the deletion of a joke in which the initials W.C. were mistaken for wayside chapel instead of "water closet".
If the sixties hadn't happened, Pialat's films could have been the same, except for the fights with censors over full frontal nudity (mainly women's) and over his characters' sexual behavior and misbehavior.
[C12.] Fearing F.C.C. Reaction, WB Censors New Drama Concerned about the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission to fine television networks for material deemed indecent, the WB network will broadcast a new drama next week, "The Bedford Diaries," that it has censored over the objections of the program's creator.
"We were ready to go into production," Mr. Hill recalls, "when we ran into an obstacle course with the broadcast standards department". Mr. Hill has produced many other television films, but he says that the arguments with the censors over "Shootdown" were more intense and exhaustive than any he had experienced before.
