- Paperback: 482 pages
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (3 Oct 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0816623678
- ISBN-13: 978-0816623679
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,016,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The "new" censorship of the arts, some cultural critics say, is just one more item on the "new" Right's agenda, of a piece with attempts to regulate sexuality, curtail female reproductive rights, restrict gays and lesbians, and privatize public institutions. While not contesting this assessment, the writers gathered here expose crucial difficulties in using censorship, old and new, as a tool for cultural criticism. Focusing on historical moments ranging from early-modern Europe to postmodern American, and covering a variety of media from books and paintings to film and photography, their essays seek a deeper understanding of what "censorship", "criticism" and the "public sphere" really mean. Getting rid of the censor, the contributors suggest, does not get rid of the problem of censorship. In varied but complementary ways, their essays view censorship as something more than a negative, unified institutional practice used to repress certain discourses. Instead, the authors contend that censorship actually legitimates discourses - not only by allowing them to circulate, but by joining them in a sort of performance, a staging of oppositions.These essays move discussions of censorship out of the present discourse of diversity into what might be called a discourse of legitimation. In doing so, they open up the possibility of realignments between those who are disenchanted with both stereotypical right-wing criticisms of political critics and aesthetics, and stereotypical left-wing defences. Richard Burt is the author of "Licensed By Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship".
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating study of censorship
12 Dec 1999
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This is a path-breaking collection of essays on censorship. Contributors focus on examples ranging from the early modern (Milton's Areopagitica) top the modern (Joyce's Ulysses) to the postmodern. The collection as a whole shows how complicated censorship turns out to be. Burt's own essay on the LA County Musuem of Art's recontruction of the 1937 Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition is a masterpeice. A must for anyone intersted in censorship of litterature, the arts, musuems, academia and music.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Redefines censorship as something that is everywhere
28 May 2000
Format:Paperback
Most people think of themselves as opposed to censorship and on the side of freedom. While the contributors to this stellar, striningly innovative colection no doubt view cesnorship negatively, their essays show in very persuasive and detailed ways that censorship takes many forms other than brute repression, and, more oever, that those forms cannot always be clearly differentiated from the practices of criticism, editing, museuum exhibition, and so on. A very compelling and provocative book.
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