Moral panic, censorship and videotape takes in the explosion of home video, the erosion of civil liberties, the introduction of draconian censorship measures, hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape, wests documentary. Moral panic, censorship and videotape directed by jake doghouse west and produced by marc morris features interviews with filmmakers neil marshall the descent, doomsday, christopher smith severance, black death and mp graham. This is one of many questions to consider when discussing the widespread historical censorship of horror movies in great britain. With julian petley, marc morris, andy nyman, xavier mendik. When video was introduced in the late 1970s, there was no specific legislation governing its content. The new severin films threedisc set, video nasties. Video nasties and the british censors aversion to horror h for horrific, or h for hysteria. A list of films that were censored and banned that now wear. The x rated video version was soon added to the dpps list of video nasties and was. It was premiered at london frightfest in august 2010 and followed by a panel discussion which included producer marc morris and director jake west of nucleus films, professor martin barker and film director tobe hooper. A large portions of this documentary covers james ferman, an interesting fellow who was the director of the bbfc from 1975 to 1999. Oct 08, 2014 five years after making the excellent documentary video nasties.
Originally released in 2010, west manages to fit in an amazing amount of commentary and information in its 72 minutes. The eradefining and critically acclaimed documentary video nasties. Horror filmmaker jake west directed a comprehensive 2010 documentary about the precertification era, video nasties. The definitive guide, is essentially all special features, with jake wests 2010 documentary video nasties. The main board of censorship in britain was, for most of the 20th century, known as. Before dealing directly with the nasties, it is useful to give a brief explanation of the way in which british film censorship developed and was employed before the advent of video. The war on sexting, and other cases of creeping censorship.
Censorship is mainly exerted in the form of restriction of access to certain media examples include motion pictures and video games. Every video nasty critiqued and explored, followed by the original trailers, for the. This campaign allowed the media to whip up a moral panic, something that. Draconian days 2014 the highly anticipated followup to their critically acclaimed video nasties. Moral panic, censorship and videotape directed by jake doghouse west and produced by marc morris features interviews with filmmakers neil marshall the descent, doomsday, christopher smith severance, black death and mp graham bright as well as rare archive footage. Moral panic, censorship and videotape and trailers for the 72 targeted movies, which.
Aside from the bracing introductory rapidfire montage of the most gruesome clips from every movie on the list, video nasties. You can post and discuss mainstream and related amateur video. The furor created by the moral crusade against video nasties led to the introduction of the uks video recordings act 1984 which. Moral panic, censorship and videotape 2010 from director jake west and producer marc morris who continue to uncover the shocking story of home entertainment following the introduction of the 1984 video recordings act. Shaming women and men, providing an expansion of the bourgeois states conservative elements, and an expansion of the capitalist state repression. Telly addict andrew collins casts his critical eye over new worlds above. Tracking the rise of moral panic in britain during the 1980s, and the subsequent banning of 72 video nasties, jake west provides an essential insight into the political and. Various regimes have restricted the press, cinema, literature, and other entertainment venues. Jan 29, 2018 video nasties is a term associated with a period of panic and censorship in the uk during the rise of popularity of the video cassette. The critically acclaimed followup documentary to video nasties. How a few graphic horror films led to the introduction of video censorship. If u find any movie with download link unavailable leave a comment under that movie i will reupload quick. Bondage the binding starts off as part of a kinky sex scene. Moral panic, censorship and video tape, and has now made a followup, video.
Censorship and videotape provides a great overview of the video. The essays cover a variety of topics, both providing insight into the specifics of the beginnings of the panic, the people involved, and the machinations behind. Draconian days pulls the curtain back on the shocking witch hunts that took place in the wake of the 1984 video recordings act. This, coupled with the reluctance of major distributors to get involved with a medium they considered vulnerable to piracy, caused small independent companies to flood the market with lowbudget horror films and lurid. It appeared during the video nasties moral panic, in response to the idea that, thanks to the new vhs technology, ordinary people could now see the kind of uncensored material that had, formerly, only been accessible to the wealthy. Nucleus films critically acclaimed followup documentary to video nasties. In modern germany, the grundgesetz guarantees freedom of press, speech, and opinion. Did the brits even watch what came out of hong kong and germany. This page is for posting links to online streaming video, youtube and things like that. Moral panic, censorship and videotape by british horror director jake west, which was released late last. Breadcrumbs for the nasties book one volume 1 download full ebook.
Disc one features wests documentary, video nasties. This is the story covered by the fantastic documentary video nasties. Sex and censorship in the uk does a good job of developing an argument for how both leftliberals and liberals have been oddly aligned with social conservatism on dealing with sexual expression. A documentary analysis of the hysteria caused by the distribution of violent movies on videocassette in britain during the 1980s. Moral panic, censorship and videotape from director jake west and producer marc morris who continue to uncover the shocking story of home entertainment following the introduction of the 1984 video recordings act. Moral panic, censorship and video tape, and has now made a followup, video nasties. A lot of the video nasties wouldve been forgotten by now if they werent on the list. Disc one, the eradefining and critically acclaimed documentary video nasties. On monday paul and i met up in leicester square, london, to attend our first frightfest having booked tickets for a couple of world premi. Sir christopher frank carandini lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next.
Video censorship in modern britain 2011 and jake wests documentary. The term was popularised by the national viewers and listeners association nvala in the uk in the early 1980s these video releases were not brought before. Jun 16, 2015 the eradefining and critically acclaimed documentary video nasties. A perfect follow up to the first, draconian days masterfully chronicles the insane censorship and moral panic following the video nasties and the video recording act 1984. Moral panic and extreme censorship once again run rampant in director jake wests acclaimed followup documentary to 2010s video nasties. The definitive guide presents the 73minute video nasties. Especially lately ive been educating myself very much on the history of horror and the video nasties and its moral panic plays a very big role in this history.
For the first time ever on dvd, trailers to all 72 films that fell foul of the director of public prosecutions are featured with specially filmed intros for each title in a lavish threedisc collectors edition boxset, alongside a brand new documentary video nasties. Moral panic, censorship and videotape, nucleus films. Disc one the eradefining and critically acclaimed documentary video nasties. Originally released in 2010, west manages to fit in an amazing amount of. A documentary analyzing the furore which socalled video nasties caused in britain during the 1980s. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. Video nasty was a colloquial term coined in the united kingdom by 1982 1 which originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as mary whitehouse, and various religious organizations. Videotape documentary, director jake west and producer marc morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 video recordings act. Doghouse director jake west returns to the nascent days of videotape for this incisive examination of the video nasty furore of the early. German video market, radevagen and zielinski 1984 observed that video. Does germany truly censor violence in films, tv, video. Censorship in germany has taken many forms throughout the history of the region. Draconian days the critically acclaimed followup documentary to video nasties.
Through an exploration of the range of historical materials, the book examines how this unusual genre category was formulated in a particular context and then used for different reasons by. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it be francisco scaramanga in. Moral panic, censorship and videotape, jake west presents a followup which may lack the full impact of his original dissection of the hysteria which gripped margaret thatchers britain in the early 1980s, but is nonetheless a fascinating examination of the social and political consequences of the passage of the video. Moral panic, censorship and videotape is an entertaining and incredibly detailed piece of essential viewing for lovers of gore films, cinema history and the sociology of politics. Trash or treasure censorship and the changing meanings.
Several of these should be selfexplanatory, but i thought i would explain my terms for the labels im assigning to each video clip. Freedom and censorship in the media as want to read. Blindfold a blindfold figures prominently in the scene. We get interviews with people involved with the banning or fight against the banning as. Moral panic, censorship videotape dvd, 2014, 3disc set at the best online prices at ebay. In this revealing 10minute video clip on media censorship, two awardwinning journalists fired by fox news for reporting on dangerous hormones in milk tell their story. This is unfortunate because violent video games are shown to reduce, not increase violent actions. The definitive guide is one of the most aptly named sets to have come out in the past five years. This was in the very early days of video, when distribution of movies on vhs was unregulated, and the new medium could be found in almost every small local corner shop. Draconian days world premiere the highly anticipated followup to their critically acclaimed video nasties. February, 2018 comment, moral panic, politics censorship. Moral panic, censorship and videotape, a 2010 documentary directed by jake west. A documentary analyzing the furore which socalled video nasties caused. Trash or treasure is a wideranging historical study of the british circulation of the video nastiesa term that was originally coined in order to ban a group of horror videos in britain in the 1980s.
Aug 15, 2019 this era of censorship, moral panic and the brainwashing of the general public became known as the video nasty era, and looking back it seems even more ridiculous now than it must have done to many film fans back in the eighties when it was introduced. It starts out in a welter of video noise and tracking errors, so as to bring back the nostalgic. In the case of video games, germany has a strict rating system that is focused on violence, gore and cruelty. The definitive guide, but what jake wests documentary video nasties. Moral panic, censorship and videotape directed by jake doghouse west and produced by marc morris features interviews with filmmakers neil marshall the descent, doomsday, christopher smith severance, black death and mp graham bright as.
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