Silencing Cinema ─ Film Censorship Around the World

Why does oppression by censorship affect the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media? Silencing Cinema brings together the key issues and authors to examine instances of film censorship throughout the world. Including essays by some of today's leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia/Soviet Union, India, China, and Nigeria, among others. The contributors explore such innovative themes and topics as film censorship and authorship, genre, language, religion, audiences, political economy, international policy, and colonialism. This exciting collection is thoroughly unique in its broad geographical scope and its comprehensive look at film censorship.

Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Cultural Media Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. Besides his many articles in journals and books, he is the editor of Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (2011) and Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (2012), both with Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers.

Roel Vande Winkel is Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp and at LUCA, College Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium. He is Associate Editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. He has published articles in many journals and books and is the editor of the award-winning volume Cinema and the Swastika (with David Welch, 2007/2011) and Perspectives on European Film and History (with Leen Engelen, 2007).