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.


 

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    Call for Papers

    Ghent, Belgium
    Oct 16-17, 2020

     

    SCREENING CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE welcomes contributions for 20-minute presentations from scholars, artists and practitioners whose work pertains to topics and themes of film and screen censorship. The conference is organized in tandem with the 47th International Film Fest Ghent.

    Deadline for Submissions:
    August 15, 2020  

     

    Submit!
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    Keynote Speakers

    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.

     

    Speakers
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    Events

    SCREENING CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE will stage three events and screening sessions, in conjunction with the Film Fest Ghent.

     

    Events

 

Ghent University
Film Fest Gent

University of British Columbia