Behind the Scenes at the BBFC
Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age
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This official history of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) draws on unprecedented access to the BBFC's archives to trace 100 years of film classification, with contributions from leading film critics and historians and case studies of controversial films such as Battleship Potemkin and A Clockwork Orange.
Edward Lamberti
Edward Lamberti is the author of Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader and the editor of Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age. He has a PhD in film studies research from King's College London and is policy manager at the BBFC.
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