16.7 2nd and 3rd year David Bennett. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have a general understanding of how the category 'art' has been employed in the twentieth century to legitimate certain cultural practices and to defend them against censure and censorship;
• have a general understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which censorship - communal, political and legal - operates;
• have an understanding of the historically and culturally variable nature of taboos on forms of sexual, religious and political representation and expression;
• have a detailed understanding of certain celebrated twentieth-century cases of the policing and contesting of the borders between 'art' and its presumed others: pornography, blasphemy and propaganda.

This subject examines the history and cultural politics of censorship in the 'West' during the twentieth century in relation to literature, film, the visual arts and popular music, focusing on artefacts that have been the subjects of 'artistic' defences against censorship on grounds of obscenity, blasphemy or propaganda. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. (Please note that any edition of the following texts is acceptable ) Brecht B The Measures Taken. Dworkin A Mercy. Hall R The Well of Loneliness. Kundera M The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Lawrence D H Lady Chatterley's Lover. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Matagari. Ré age P Story of O (Part 1) Rushdie S The Satanic Verses. Solzhenitzyn A One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The 2 Live Crew Nasty As They Wanna Be (recording) Wilde O The Picture of Dorian Gray. Films: Blue Velvet, The Last Temptation of Christ Not a Love Story. Course reader available from the department 16.7 2nd and 3rd year David Bennett. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have a general understanding of how the category 'art' has been employed in the twentieth century to legitimate certain cultural practices and to defend them against censure and censorship;
• have a general understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which censorship - communal, political and legal - operates;
• have an understanding of the historically and culturally variable nature of taboos on forms of sexual, religious and political representation and expression;
• have a detailed understanding of certain celebrated twentieth-century cases of the policing and contesting of the borders between 'art' and its presumed others: pornography, blasphemy and propaganda.

This subject examines the history and cultural politics of censorship in the 'West' during the twentieth century in relation to literature, film, the visual arts and popular music, focusing on artefacts that have been the subjects of 'artistic' defences against censorship on grounds of obscenity, blasphemy or propaganda. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. (Please note that any edition of the following texts is acceptable ) Brecht B The Measures Taken. Dworkin A Mercy. Hall R The Well of Loneliness. Kundera M The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Lawrence D H Lady Chatterley's Lover. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Matagari. Ré age P Story of O (Part 1) Rushdie S The Satanic Verses. Solzhenitzyn A One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The 2 Live Crew Nasty As They Wanna Be (recording) Wilde O The Picture of Dorian Gray. Films: Blue Velvet. The Last Temptation of Christ. Not a Love Story. Course reader available from the department 16.7 David Bennett. Second semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have a general understanding of how the category "art" has been employed in the twentieth century to legitimate certain cultural practices and to defend them against censure and censorship;
• have a general understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which censorship - communal, political and legal - operates;
• have an understanding of the historically and culturally variable nature of taboos on forms of sexual, religious and political representation and expression; and
• have a detailed understanding of certain celebrated twentieth-century cases of the policing and contesting of the borders between "art" and its presumed others: pornography, blasphemy and propaganda.

This subject examines the history and cultural politics of censorship in the "West" during the twentieth century in relation to literature, film, the visual arts and popular music, focusing on artefacts that have been the subjects of "artistic" defences against censorship on grounds of obscenity, blasphemy or propaganda. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. (Please note that any edition of the following texts is acceptable ) Brecht B The Measures Taken. Dworkin A Mercy. Hall R The Well of Loneliness. Kundera M The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Lawrence D H Lady Chatterley's Lover. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Matagari. Ré age P Story of O (Part 1). Rushdie S The Satanic Verses. Solzhenitzyn A One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The 2 Live Crew Nasty As They Wanna Be (recording) Wilde O The Picture of Dorian Gray Films: Blue Velvet The Last Temptation of Christ Not a Love Story. Course reader available from the department