What Censorship Exists For Feature Films In the UK?

... 19 February 2002 ND MEDIA PRODUCTION YEAR 2 FILM STUDIES MODULE JOHN LOUGH ASSIGNMENT: WHAT CENSORSHIP EXISTS FOR FEATURE FILMS IN THE UK? To explain what censorship exists in our country today, the definition of the word censorship needs to be stated. It means to ban or remove anything regarded as harmful, but of course what may be harmful to one person may not to another and so laws were devised to distinguish what age groups could see what films, judging on mental maturity. There are arguments about these groups but they are deemed the fairest way to prohibit offensive material being seen by someone for whom it was unsuitable for. In the past regulations were very tight and films were frequently banned, today this is very rare. In 1998 the BBFC (the board that enforces the Video Recordings Acts in the UK) said it had become "a board of classification rather than

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