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I Am a Camera: Film and Theatre Censorship in 1950s Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

Tony Aldgate
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Abstract

Although the processes of censorship as exercised over the stage and screen in 1950s Britain shared similar characteristics, there were vital differences in the way in which the governing authorities construed the audiences who frequented these entertainment media. Because cinemagoers constituted a mass audience and were considered to be more impressionable, the criteria of ‘quality’ applied by the British Board of Film Censors differed markedly to those put into effect for the theatre by the Lord Chamberlain's Office. The reception afforded both the play and film of I Am a Camera reveals the subtlety of approach adopted by the censors in each instance.

Type
Research Article
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , November 1999 , pp. 425 - 438
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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