Festival film? Underground film? Dissident film? Sabrina Q. Yu on contemporary Chinese independent cinema's proliferating labels and reigning misperceptions.
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Tags: censorship, Chinese film, independent film, indie cinema, SAPPRFT
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Kate Egan uses the BBFC archive to consider British local censorship history through a case study of Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
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Tags: British film, censorship, film, film culture, Monty Python, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, obscenity, Pythonesque
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Boycotting Facebook is getting harder, particularly because of the complete invisibility and unawareness of the nature of the social networking site to its members.
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Tags: censorship, Facebook, Google, OTW
Posted in Internet, Perspectives | Comments Off on The Cost of Interfaces
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, books, box office, censorship, digital music, Disney, distribution, DVD, Facebook, gaming, Google, Hollywood, internet, Kickstarter, Liosgate, MGM, Netflix, piracy, television, video on demand
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Whatever you’ve been doing on the internet in the last few weeks, chances are you ran across something about SOPA. And for good reason—SOPA might just be the most dangerous internet legislation the US government has ever considered.
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Tags: censorship, copyright, intellectual property, internet freedom, net neutrality, PIPA, policy, social media, SOPA, U.S. Congress
Posted in Film, Industry, Internet, Music, Politics, Technology, TV | 2 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, AOL, Blockbuster, censorship, cloud services, digital music, file sharing, film festivals, Google, indie cinema, internet, movie theaters, music, Netflix, piracy, streaming, television, video games, VOD, wga
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Anonymous, AOL, box office, censorship, digital distribution, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, internet, iTunes, MPAA, music, music downloads, Netflix, NPR, porn, public broadcasting, ratings, social gaming, streaming, Sundance, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, video games, Weinstein Co., YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, BitTorrent, censorship, China, Comcast, digital music, Disney, Facebook, Google, independent film, internet, iPad, music, Netflix, oscars, streaming, Sundance, television, video games
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How did the recent South Park controversy on depicting Mohammed contribute to our overall understanding of the issue?
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Tags: "200 and 201", censorship, Parker and Stone, religion, satire, South Park
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