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Bernard Shaw and the Censors - Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Bernard Shaw and the Censors - Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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"Dukore's style is fluid and his wit delightful. I learned a
tremendous amount, as will most readers, and Bernard Shaw and the
Censors will doubtless be the last word on the topic." - Michel
Pharand, former editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
and author of Bernard Shaw and the French (2001). "This book shows
us a new side of Shaw and his complicated relationships to the
powerful mechanisms of stage and screen censorship in the long
twentieth century." - - Lauren Arrington, Professor of English,
Maynooth University, Ireland A fresh view of Shaw versus stage and
screen censors, this book describes Shaw as fighter and failure,
whose battles against censorship - of his plays and those of
others, of his works for the screen and those of others - he
sometimes won but usually lost. We forget usually, because
ultimately he prevailed and because his witty reports of defeats
are so buoyant, they seem to describe triumphs. We think of him as
a celebrity, not an outsider; as a classic, not one of the
avant-garde, of which Victorians and Edwardians were intolerant; as
ahead of his time, not of it, when he was called "disgusting,"
"immoral", and "degenerate." Yet it took over three decades and a
world war before British censors permitted a public performance of
Mrs Warren's Profession. We remember him as an Academy Award winner
for Pygmalion, not as an author whose dialogue censors required
deletions for showings in the United States. Scrutinizing the
powerful stage and cinema censorship in Britain and America, this
book focuses on one of its most notable campaigners against them in
the last century.
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