2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative sociology of cinema censorship between Japan and United States before World War
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11610167
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Waseda University (2000)
Chiba University (1999) |
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Principal Investigator |
HASE Masato Waseda University, School of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40208476)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KATO Mikiro Kyoto University, Faculty of Integrated Huamn Studies Associate Professor, 大学院・人間環境学研究科, 助教授 (60185874)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Keywords | cinema censorship / social discourse / cultural polites |
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| Research Abstract |
Censorship has been considered as the problem of the repression by the governmental power. However we must deal with this problem from the sociological point of view. Except in periods of national emergency, such as war time, authoritarian forms of censorship, exercised through the monopoly power of the State, have not been prominent features of twentieth-century liberal democracies. Rather self-regulation by the cinema industries was a usual form of film censorship. So censorship was exercised through complex social discourses.
For example, Hase analyses the way a film "The Birth of a Nation" was criticized and labeled as racism movie and banned by some state governments in his paper, 'What is the social effect of fictional film? ". Before the regulation of screening by the public agency, this film was 'censored' by social discourses. And Kato analyses the form and content of black movies which have been produced outside Hollywood. Here it was decided by the way of reception by black people. This is, as it were, a censorship. So the problem of censorship must be analyzed as cultural politics.
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