ENGL 351: Advanced Film
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| Course: | English 351 Section 500 (Spring 1998) |
| Instructor: | Dr. Kate Kelly |
| Office: | Blocker 219C |
| Hours: | 11:30-12:30 MWF & by appointment 862-4368 |
| Email: | kate-kelly@tamu.edu |
 -- Rev. Wilbur Crafts"(Censor) Will Hays is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in clean postures." -- Gene Fowler
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Advocates of censorship imagine a Vulnerable Viewer easily led astray by cinematic representations of sex, violence, and ethnic/racial hostility; opponents of censorship imagine a Strong Viewer able to distinguish between fact and fiction and to resist cinematic portrayals of undesirable behavior and speech. The social historians we will read have demonstrated how business and political interests have also shaped the censorship debate, which has never been pure and rarely simple. Our goal in this class is to become aware of historical arguments for and against film censorship; to recognize the assumptions underlying the impulse to limit (or not) speech; and to become articulate speakers and writers on the question of film censorship. Students are warned that sensitive subject matter will be--must be--viewed in this course. Anyone who is offended by "R" rated subject matter, specifically, any viewer who might be offended by vivid portrayals of hetero- and homosexuality, of violence, of racist behavior and speech, of controversial portrayals of religious figures, and of challenging political critique should consider taking a different course. | |
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