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Declining Oppositions
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Una M. Cadegan
Published: 08 August 2013
... the conflict between Catholic literary culture and intellectual modernity in the area of censorship. Finally, it explains how Catholic literary culture performed a variety of cultural work within debates and wrangling over what was Catholic, what was literary, and what was American about American Catholic...
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The History and Function of Catholic Censorship, as Told to the Twentieth Century
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Una M. Cadegan
Published: 08 August 2013
...This chapter traces the history of the Catholic regulation of books and reading and describes the censorship system in the twentieth century. It begins by focusing on the Index of Forbidden Books and its histories, along with its place in the imagination of twentieth-century Catholicism...
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Censorship in the Land of “Thinking on One’s Own”
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Una M. Cadegan
Published: 08 August 2013
...This chapter explores how the Roman Catholic Church's censorship system was “translated”—explained and rationalized—to the Catholic reading public and also to and by Catholic scholars, writers, and intellectuals in the twentieth century. These translations and rationales not only deal...
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Epilogue: The Abrogation of the Index
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Una M. Cadegan
Published: 08 August 2013
... of Forbidden Books and the system of thought it stood for continued to occupy a central place in the public image of American Catholicism beyond the first half of the century. It suggests that the Index and the system of censorship it represented had continued to reflect the complexity of relationships among...
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Surveillance and Propaganda
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David L. Hoffmann
Published: 06 October 2011
... in the hope of creating self-motivated, conscious citizens. It then discusses some of the surveillance practices implemented by Soviet officials, including censorship and perlustration of letters. It also looks at the Communist Party's political enlightenment program and its efforts to create an ideal...
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Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia
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Alessandro Orsini
Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 15 September 2017
... to censorship. The author's activities as a fascist were often mundane: leafleting, distributing food parcels to the indigent, and attending public rallies. This book describes from within the masculine ethos of the militias, the groups' relations with local police and politicians, and the central role...
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Censorial Indistinction
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Neringa Klumbyte
Published: 15 December 2022
...This chapter explores the Broom editors' and artists' positionality toward censorship, which correlates to the relative freedom and encapsulates the relations of political intimacy with censors and banal opposition. In relation, censorial indistinction was shaped by inconsistent...
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Political Aesthetics
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Neringa Klumbyte
Published: 15 December 2022
... authors' lack of literary skills, humor, or the overall literary-aesthetic quality of their work, which makes their censorship different from Glavlit censors' conceptualization. The Power of Pedagogy showcases that the censoring of Broom editors is based on pedagogy...
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Giving Voice to Truth in Samizdat
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Ann Komaromi
Published: 15 May 2022
... of expression by different people and groups. When samizdat appears to be the vehicle of the true or authentic voice, the medium can appear to be effaced, or its material poverty and precarious existence can serve as a sign of truth or spirit. Not impacted directly by censorship or institutional demands...
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Reporting the War in Europe
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Richard Fine
Published: 15 April 2023
...This chapter highlights the liberation of Paris, which had been something of a free-for-all for the press and an embarrassing debacle for army public relations. It mentions the Columbia Broadcasting System's (CBS) Charles Collingwood and its censorship officials for publishing a story that Paris...
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Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena’s “Deeds of Alexander the Great”
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Zrinka Stahuljak
Published: 15 November 2021
...This chapter explicates Vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great in terms of transgender translation, humanism, and periodization. In addition, it looks into how the copy of the book recorded vandalism, censorship, and theft. The heritage of periodization may have obfuscated...
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The Masters: The Director-Centered Mode of Production and the Tradition of Quality
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Maria Belodubrovskaya
Published: 15 October 2017
...Chapter Three discusses the implications of the director-centered mode of film production and suggests why entrusting self-governance and self-censorship to a select group of director-masters was counterproductive. The Soviet film industry did not have producers, and only directors had the creative...
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Displaced
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Benjamin Franklin Martin
Published: 15 February 2020
...This chapter assesses how Roger Martin du Gard contended with the problem of his Epilogue for Les Thibault . Editions Gallimard worried that its account of the Great War's horrors might attract official censorship, which could mean seizure of the entire print run...
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New Colonial Vocabularies and Overseas Conquest in Vietnam
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Christina B. Carroll
Published: 15 May 2022
... due to the 1881 law eliminating censorship of the political press. However, forms of public expression remained relatively controlled by the colonial administration. The chapter explains that Napoleon III and France's defeat during the Franco-Prussian War continued to shape republican conversations...
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Poetry and Peace (1940)
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Muriel RuKeyser
Published: 15 November 2023
.... The author explains how the term “school of poetry” presupposes a level of civilization, a centralization of forces, a benevolence of rule, and an expansion of the state in which it occurs. The chapter then considers censorship and hush-editorials. Ultimately, the author suggests that the worst thing...
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Prohibition as Conformity
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James R. Fichter
Published: 15 December 2023
... indicator of political belief, but the Patriots prioritized getting colonists to say they supported the Association. The chapter explains how the accusation of tea drinking became a useful tool in neighborly politics and feuds. It cites that Patriotic propaganda, censorship, and control of a large majority...
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Mediascape and Movement: The Dynamics of Political Communication, Public and Counterpublic
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Francis L. F. Lee
Published: 15 November 2019
... partial censorship exists. The impact of digital media in largescale protest movements is similarly multifaceted and contradictory. Digital media empower social protests by promoting oppositional discourses, facilitating mobilization, and contributing to the emergence of connective action. However...
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Published: 15 December 2020
... and disciplinary censorship, which was not universally well received as noted by the Chicago anthropologist Fred Eggan. It also looks at the letter that was written in response to a query to the Columbia University sociologist Robert Merton about Thorstein Veblen and his use of the concept of trained incapacity...
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The Debate
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Richard Fine
Published: 15 April 2023
...This chapter discusses the censorship controversy in the Public Relations Division (PRD) of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), noting the plans to continue military censorship as long as SHAEF remained operational. The chapter points out how Ed Kennedy's surrender...
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The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections
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Eric T. Kasper and Troy A. Kozma
Published online: 19 September 2024
Published in print: 15 April 2024
... is particularly timely, as the issues of censorship and freedom of expression are debated in the public square today....