(censorship)
11Censorship — Official film censorship in Spain started in 1912, and remained in place as an explicit system to control artistic expression, enforced in one form or another, until 1977. The power to censor spectacles was held, in the early periods, by the… …
12censorship — The official culture of Franco s Spain was intolerant, xenophobic, sectarian and resolutely Castilian. Any expression of Catalan, Basque or Galician culture was forbidden, but no one, whatever his or her cultural origins, was immune from… …
13Censorship — The Gottsched Neuber reforms of the 1730s had firmly established in both the public and the aristocratic consciousness that theater was a moral institution with responsibilities for Bildung (a term meaning cultural education and refinement).… …
14CENSORSHIP — Church Censorship The theory of the Catholic Church that it had a duty to protect man from endangering his eternal salvation through exposure to heretical books and ideas made its form of censorship the most intolerant, and the power of the… …
15censorship — n. 1) to impose, introduce censorship 2) to exercise, practice censorship 3) to abolish, lift censorship 4) rigid, strict censorship 5) film; government(al); military; press censorship 6) censorship of, over * * * [ sensəʃɪp] introducecensorship… …
16censorship — To censor is to suppress communication that is deemed destructive of the common good. Thus censorship is usually associated with the exercise of authority over individuals. In Western society the term dates back to ancient Rome, where control… …
17censorship — See armed forces censorship; civil censorship; field press censorship; national censorship; primary censorship; prisoner of war censorship; secondary censorship …
18Censorship — During the period of the Republicin the 17th and 18th centuries, censorship of the press was in the hands of local and re gional authorities. The States General issued only a few edicts against libelous and other offensive printings. Because… …
19censorship — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ strict ▪ government, military, state, wartime ▪ Internet, media, political, press …
20censorship — STANLEY KUBRICK ran into censorship restrictions with SPARTACUS (homosexuality and violence), LOLITA (pedophilia), and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (rape and violence) because of prohibitions in the Motion Picture Production Code and the Legion of… …
