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| JohnLindsay | Imperial War Museum | 0 | May 5 2009, 4:49 AM EDT by JohnLindsay | ||||
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Found another case which amounts to censorship. The Imperial War Museum has age restrictions on young people seeing things to do with genocide, holocaust and so forth. I watched a young person being excluded and his father trying to explain why he wasn't going to be allowed to go in.
This is a different sort of matter from some of the others but I wonder on the body of theory, never mind knowledge, which has allowed for a decision such as this? |
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| JohnLindsay | Binche | 0 | Feb 2 2009, 8:33 AM EST by JohnLindsay | ||||
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not quite literature, but in a town in Wallonia there is an exhibition dedicated to the phallus, masks, carnival, which in Britain would be closed down by the police the day it opened. Yet in Wallonia, in Binche, there are young kids playing around, making masks, and no one turns a wink. There is an exhibition on, in french, because it is wallonia, crossing genres, with the carnival, masque theme, challenging every idea of fixed sexuality you can imagine.
Which simply goes to show how complicated the matter of what is culturally a norm and what is prohibited actually is. Last nite on radio was a rattigan play, and I remember the winslow boy at school, and the silence surrounding rattigan, just to show that things change |
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| JohnLindsay | knowbot | 4 | Dec 11 2008, 2:32 PM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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I wonder whether we could use this wonderful adventure to start a knowledge gathering exercise on the theme, and thus build something?
The first thing I discovered after this thought is the Children's Literature Association which produces a Quarterly, which is in our library, and I presume available electronically, so scuttle off and grep Now we can work on what they have had to say about the forbidden fruit theme?: And post The second thought I found was the link between film and literature. I had found a book in the BFI bookshop on children's film and censorship, but I hadn't thought to take down the detail, as I wasn't that interested at that stage, so back to the BFI, or try grepping the concept.
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| Anonymous | Heteronormativity | 0 | Nov 3 2008, 5:51 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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This isn't the same thing as censorship directly, what a long time ago was called the social construction of reality, but there is an exhibition at the National Gallery in London on Renaissance Faces, and the leaflet handed out has a section in which it is most clearly asserted that all these faces are having heterosexual relations, and that none of them are same gender.
This makes a good case, for there will be a new gallery at the Victoria and Albert opening in 2009 on the Renaissance and Middle Ages, and I'd open a book on what pops up. The V&A has spent a million quid on a project on cultural diversity, and cultural diversity becomes the sort of topic with which censorship moves over into tacit and explicit understandings of history, to which I think young people should be introduced. |
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| JohnLindsay | Hadrian at the British Museum | 4 | Aug 8 2008, 7:31 AM EDT by JohnLindsay | ||||
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seems to be the first case of the absence of censorship since this list began.
The statue in the open court refers to Antinous as Hadrian's lover, tho this leaves open what a lover might mean. I saw this first in the Vatican where its position was an interesting referral. There will be a Hadrian on Youtube if there aren't too many there already Incidently, this list might want to know about PPTSA. using technology for social action, which is on the design activism group on Facebook
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| Anonymous | London Literature Festival | 1 | Jul 7 2008, 6:03 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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the first event on this theme afte the event with the house of homosexual culture, and the first event, 5 July, you have to be over 18, which is dirty books
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| Anonymous | Children's Choice | 1 | Apr 30 2008, 7:18 AM EDT by tim_davies | ||||
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Thought this link might be of interest to folks on here...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/03/let_children_choose_the_books.html Some really interesting comments, highlighting the role of libraries in the control (or not) of taste, and the availability of texts.
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| msimkin | conference themes | 2 | Nov 6 2007, 2:41 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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I wish I could get to the UK for this. It looks really interesting and very topical. I hope many practitioners take up the call and join in by offering papers etc.
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