• ISBN13: 9781905422555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: July 15, 2008
• Pages: 122
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

About the Book From its birth in the dying days of the nineteenth century to its hi-tech proliferation today, cinema has been a mote in the eye of the censorship its popular appeal and widespread dissemination made it an obvious and easy target: it was widely accused of corrupting morals, spreading dangerous ideas and having a particularly malign effect on children and members of the ’lower orders.’ The spread of new forms of communications technology, such as DVD and the Internet, has democratized the moving image and made the task of the censor much harder than it once was, as the specially commissioned interview with David Cooke, director of the British Board of film classification, included in this volume reveals. About the Author Philip French</b> is one of Britain’s best-known and most respected film critics. Senior producer for BBC Radio from 1959 to 1990, he has been the Observer’s film critic since 1978, and has written regularly for numerous newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times, London Magazine, The Times, the New Statesman, the Spectator and Sight & Sound. His books as author or editor include Malle on Malle (1992), The Faber Book of Movie Verse (1993), Wild Strawberries (1995) and Cult Movies (1999). French has been a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival and a Booker Prize judge.