SCREENING CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE
Welcome

Throughout the history of film, censorship has existed everywhere – in all kinds of shapes, colors, and dimensions. The act of restricting the free production, circulation, screening and consumption of movies was never unique to authoritarian regimes…

Censorship has had far-reaching implications on filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, and audiences across generations, and across genres. Including self-censorship of audiences disciplined into particular viewership positions…

Today, soft and hard censorship co-exist in even more fluid forms. As a ‘banner issue’, banning, regulating, trimming, and tailoring films for ‘harmless’ consumption, by bureaucracies, pressure groups and activists, exemplify wider debates about media use…

SCREENING CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE aims to showcase academic and industry voices on the issue of the shifting practices of censoring films on the different screens. The four keynote addresses confirmed for the symposium reflect that goal. The conference is organized in tandem with the 47th International Film Fest Ghent.