"How far do changes to the regulation of media reflect broader social changes?"
The human centipede’ where we see them reasoning with their conservative viewpoints only to end up cutting out shorts scenes, which therefore implicates a more liberal aspect has impacted their choice of action. Whereas if we were to compare this to ‘The Evil Dead' in 1981, the BBFC banned the film completely worried it would corrupt children innocence. This would then go on to how desensitisation plays a vital part in the choices being made by them. My position in regulation is to set a moral standard that wont change across time as releasing films that endanger the youth's mental health being is more important to please an audience. Lastly although individual responsibility is important, regulating others is difficult as the threat of the online world acts as a way for them to view content not suitable for them. We should still keep regulating media in film, TV and gaming as it reduces a significant number of probable issues.
The BBFC is a British board film classification that classifies certain films abroad from showing in the UK. Certain events have taken place where in the 1980s the idea of video nasties such as ‘Evil dead and Texas chainsaw massacre have introduced an intense reviewing of films that could cause imitable behaviour and moral panic. The liberalisation over the years has caused an up roar in classification and censorship from the BBFC. Furthermore as the BBFC are becoming more liberal this leads to more films not being banned. An contemporary example of this was ‘The Human Centipede’ and the graphic nature of the film lead to it being banned in the UK. Although it was banned in the UK, to allow viewings for the film cuts were made for it to be released.
The BBFC are seen to regulate sexual content more strictly than violence as sexual scenes contain a intimate relationship between two people that is delicate and art worthy. Deadpool is a action film that focused on violence which was explicit. Although the film is based of an comic book the graphic content caused the BBFC to classify the film as a 15 in the UK whilst in America the film gained an 18. This could be a worry as it shows that society as a whole is becoming desensitised and the BBFC are becoming more liberal. Whereas ‘Blue is the warmest colours' is rated as a 18 in the UK and views perverted sexual scenes that can be harmful to certain audience members. The fact that long continuous sex scenes are shown, we could say it breaks down the 4th wall between the audience giving them insight into the tolerable act. Subsequently the main point of sexual films is that it can be viewed if the content is justified by the context. We do however have negative impacts from this as Mary Whitehouse feared that allowing films, TV shows etc.... to show explicit content such as ‘Blue is the warmest colour’ would gradually lead to loss of morality in society, endangering the youth to be previewing this type of content at a young age.
The human centipede’ where we see them reasoning with their conservative viewpoints only to end up cutting out shorts scenes, which therefore implicates a more liberal aspect has impacted their choice of action. Whereas if we were to compare this to ‘The Evil Dead' in 1981, the BBFC banned the film completely worried it would corrupt children innocence. This would then go on to how desensitisation plays a vital part in the choices being made by them. My position in regulation is to set a moral standard that wont change across time as releasing films that endanger the youth's mental health being is more important to please an audience. Lastly although individual responsibility is important, regulating others is difficult as the threat of the online world acts as a way for them to view content not suitable for them. We should still keep regulating media in film, TV and gaming as it reduces a significant number of probable issues.
The BBFC is a British board film classification that classifies certain films abroad from showing in the UK. Certain events have taken place where in the 1980s the idea of video nasties such as ‘Evil dead and Texas chainsaw massacre have introduced an intense reviewing of films that could cause imitable behaviour and moral panic. The liberalisation over the years has caused an up roar in classification and censorship from the BBFC. Furthermore as the BBFC are becoming more liberal this leads to more films not being banned. An contemporary example of this was ‘The Human Centipede’ and the graphic nature of the film lead to it being banned in the UK. Although it was banned in the UK, to allow viewings for the film cuts were made for it to be released.
The BBFC are seen to regulate sexual content more strictly than violence as sexual scenes contain a intimate relationship between two people that is delicate and art worthy. Deadpool is a action film that focused on violence which was explicit. Although the film is based of an comic book the graphic content caused the BBFC to classify the film as a 15 in the UK whilst in America the film gained an 18. This could be a worry as it shows that society as a whole is becoming desensitised and the BBFC are becoming more liberal. Whereas ‘Blue is the warmest colours' is rated as a 18 in the UK and views perverted sexual scenes that can be harmful to certain audience members. The fact that long continuous sex scenes are shown, we could say it breaks down the 4th wall between the audience giving them insight into the tolerable act. Subsequently the main point of sexual films is that it can be viewed if the content is justified by the context. We do however have negative impacts from this as Mary Whitehouse feared that allowing films, TV shows etc.... to show explicit content such as ‘Blue is the warmest colour’ would gradually lead to loss of morality in society, endangering the youth to be previewing this type of content at a young age.
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