British Board of Film Classification

Censorship in films can be best described as the maxim “see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil”. Especially in Malaysia, the censorship in films are very strict when it comes to sexual content. With this being said, citizens of Malaysia have very minimal, almost close to none, in terms of exposure to sexual content in films. The Film Censorship Board of Malaysia, as known as ‘Lembaga Penapis Filem’ or ‘LPF’ for short, is under the control of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Board was…

contributor to the Brown Political Review, writes that “to this day, films deemed too obscene are banned in pluralistic democracies. Australia’s Classification Board works with the Attorney-General’s Department to certify and de facto censor films on the mass market, Canada’s vast network of provincial censorship boards represses at the regional level instead of a national one, and the independent British Board of Film Classification operates as a public-private partnership to screen and block…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7bqootR6rs The products impact and effect on the audience. The audience type that will be watching this music video released by Spinnin’ Records are going to be in the C1, D and E brackets of socio economic status. I have found this to be correct as in theses brackets it will tend to be a much younger audience than in the other brackets, and from my research I have found that the average age for listening is around 24 and a good majority are under this age,…

and, for young couples courting, were all part of the experience’5. Behaviour was somewhat less than decorous; it was accepted practice for audiences to shout at the screen and across the auditorium, making it a much more interactive experience. The films either in the silent era or the early talkies showed a world that the average working class audience could not know about any other way. Even when the images were idealised and less than accurate they provided a glamorous escape from the…

back to his old self. The minister plays the Beethoven symphony and the film ends with Alex having visions of him having sex while English men and women cheer and applaud. THEMES The Necessity of Evil in Human Nature. Unlike any of the adult characters in the film, Alex seems extraordinarily alive and…

La Mafia In media we have produced a film trailer entitled La Mafia; our group consisted of me, Chris, Jeremiah and Onur. The film’s genre is both comedy and action, with the setting being in a school. Throughout the production we set goals to make sure our trailer was unique. Our production was aimed at the 13 -21 year age group, targeting the B-D social groups, in addition to the Aspirer psychographic group. Our production was more targeted at the male audience, as it utilises the…

had a strong impact on its audience is the film ‘Jaws’. This film uses the hypodermic needle technique as it emphasises a negative opinion on sharks and how they are dangerous man-killers which is what gave them such fearsome reputations. The film spawned an international panic about sharks and this created a mass audience effect as the attraction to go to destinations with beaches declined as people were afraid to go into the sea. Another effect the film had was an increase in shark fishing…

Race and Racism “Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It 's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated”. Racism feeds into the egotistic minds of people who believe they are superior to others because of their own race. Unfortunately, there are not any clear answers about why people have these traits and choose to believe them. The only thing we can do is understand…

Chapter-1 Performer’s rights: new dimension of copyright laws INTRODUCTION Performer’s rights with respect to cinematographic films have always been an area of dispute, this is because the producer is considered as the owner of such work and he can exploit the work for his economic advantage. A cinematographic film consists of a different rights associated to it and producer is considered as the holder of the bundle of rights only because he takes the initiative, like in a company’s case a…

flurry of extravaganza and fanfare all over the Western World. It was released on 15th June, 2015. The date of its release coincides with the date of birth of Christian Grey—the vanguard and protagonist of this novel. It is an erotic romance story by British writer E.L. James—the author of an erstwhile super block buster hit the Fifty Shades of Grey. The novel under review is the 4th instalment of the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. The main twist in the latest series of the book is that the…