Read the following articles. Write 2 x 250 word introduction
1. Considering the debates surrounding the censorship of Video Nasties, how appropriate was it to pass the HC uncut?
2. To what extent have social changes impacted film regulation? Focus your discussion on the development of censorship of Video Nasties to Human Centipede 2.
a) General overview of Film censorship, reasons and justifications for this, definition of the Video Nasties and the factors/participants that led to the VRA 1984
b) Theories that relate to this Moral Panic, Desensitisation, Uses and Gratifications, Copycat and the main points you will make (3 points)
c) Thesis Statement
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/for-their-eyes-only-inside-the-world-of-the-film-censor-2294349.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/film-censorship-how-moral-panic-led-to-a-mass-ban-of-video-nasties-9600998.html
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/mary-whitehouse-recruited-teachers-in-fight-against-video-nasties-1-6494805
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/aug/23/human-centipede-most-horrific-film
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/human-centipede-3/controversy-banned-dieter-laser/
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