Overview
- Shines a light on Shaw's failures as well as his successes
- First book length study to focus on Shaw's battle with the censors across both theatre and film
- Looks at censorship of stage and screen in both the UK and USA
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
“Dukore’s style is fluid and his wit delightful. I learned a tremendous amount, as will most readers, and Bernard Shaw and the Censors will doubtless be the last word on the topic.”
- Michel Pharand, former editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies and author of Bernard Shaw and the French (2001).
"This book shows us a new side of Shaw and his complicated relationships to the powerful mechanisms of stage and screen censorship in the long twentieth century.”
- - Lauren Arrington, Professor of English, Maynooth University, Ireland
A fresh view of Shaw versus stage and screen censors, this book describes Shaw as fighter and failure, whose battles against censorship – of his plays and those of others, of his works for the screen and those of others – he sometimes won but usually lost. We forget usually, because ultimately he prevailed and because his witty reports of defeats are so buoyant, they seem to describe triumphs. We think of him as a celebrity, not an outsider; as a classic, not one of the avant-garde, of which Victorians and Edwardians were intolerant; as ahead of his time, not of it, when he was called “disgusting,” “immoral", and "degenerate.” Yet it took over three decades and a world war before British censors permitted a public performance of Mrs Warren’s Profession. We remember him as an Academy Award winner for Pygmalion, not as an author whose dialogue censors required deletions for showings in the United States. Scrutinizing the powerful stage and cinema censorship in Britain and America, this book focuses on one of its most notable campaigners against them in the last century.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Theatre Arts and Humanities, Virginia Tech, USA. His books on theatre and film include Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw: Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class (2012), Shaw's Theater (2000), and Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films (1999).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bernard Shaw and the Censors
Book Subtitle: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen
Authors: Bernard F. Dukore
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52186-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52185-1Published: 07 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52188-2Published: 08 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52186-8Published: 06 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 261
Topics: Theatre History, Drama, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performers and Practitioners, Film History