Freedom's Frontier: Censorship in Modern Britain - Rilegato

Thomas, Donald

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ISBN 10: 071955733X ISBN 13: 9780719557330

Casa editrice: John Murray Pubs Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

How does censorship affect our basic right to freedom? Donald Thomas gives a disturbing insight into what those in power consider too dangerous to be seen, or said, by ordinary people. Both timely and thought-provoking, Freedom's Frontier reveals how censorship has restricted freedom of expression in the past, including obscenity prosecutions of writers in the twentieth century, and continues to silence us in the present with the more insidious tool of political correctness.
From the use of seditious libel proceedings to stop rumours of George V's bigamy, to the Mutiny Act used to silence Communist publications in the 1920s; from the use of the Official Secrets Act to ban the publication of Spycatcher, to the Salman Rushdie controversy in 1989, Thomas chronicles a broad range of censorship cases.
Although we have won greater freedom of expression in some areas, ultimately we have lost the absolute liberty of political expression that was enshrined by the Victorians in liberal theory. Freedom's Frontier challenges the boundaries of censorship and questions the definitions of freedom in today's society.

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Recensione

'Thomas' book on modern censorship is provocative, timely and disturbing' (Iain Finlayson, The Times)

'This survey of the authoritarian scissors over the past 400 years is one of the best I've read . . . very entertaining on the perennial nonsense of censorship . . . rich in incidental illustration' (John Sutherland, Financial Times)

'What wonderful examples of the sheer idiocy of state officials Professor Thomas records here' (Sunday Telegraph)

'Excellent, beautifully written' (Country Life)

'Often entertaining, impressively detailed' (Morning Star)

'Donald Thomas tackles the basic question: How does censorship affect our right to freedom? He reveals what the powerful consider too dangerous to be seen, or even said, by ordinary people' (Diplomat)

'An excellent history of our government's reluctance to let us say what we want' (Metro)

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Descrizione del libro

A fascinating history of censorship in the twentieth century

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• Editore: John Murray Pubs Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 071955733X
• ISBN 13: 9780719557330
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416