1、Censorship,Think of a book or movie that has influenced you in some way What would be lost if no one could ever read the book or see the movie again?,What is Censorship?,Types of censorship,Challenges to material Banning of material Destroying material,Where does censorship take place?,Schools: text
2、books, reading material Libraries ?,Reasons for Censorship,Family values Religion Political views,General Principles for the Compilation of Blacklists 1933-1939,Literature that undermines way of thinking & living Predominantly Jewish authors “Cleansing” should be done in stages Materials categorized
3、 in 3 groups: Group 1 to be destroyed Group 2 to be put into Poison Cabinet Group 3 requires future assessment to be put into 1 or 2 Replacement with new literature,Evaluation Guidelines 1935,Works of traitors, emigrants, anyone who attacks the “new” Germany Marxism, Communism, Bolshevism Liberal, d
4、emocratic tendencies and attitudes All historical works denigrating German culture or racial and structural order of Germany Philosophical and social works dealing with false science of Darwinism or Monism,Evaluation Guidelines, cont.,Decadent, bloodless, or constructivist art Writings on sexuality
5、or sex education Decadent writings of middle class urban society All literature by Jewish authors All entertainment literature that depicts life in superficial, unrealistic manner based on upper class view of life All literature that ridicules, belittles Christianity “When Books Burn”, Univ. of Ariz
6、ona,Germany, 1932-1939,By 1934 over 40 agencies involved with banning of books Those agencies compiled lists of 4100 publications to be banned,Top 10 Challenged Books in U.S. 1990-2000,Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz Daddys Roommate by Michael Willhoite I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Ma
7、ya Angelou The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,Challenged books, cont.,6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling Forever by Judy Blume 9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Na
8、ylorALA Office of Intellectual Freedom (based on 6,364 reported challenges),Reasons for Challenges 1999-2000,Sexually explicit challenges (1,607) Offensive language (1,427) Unsuitable for age group (1,256) Occult theme or promoting Satanism (842) Violent (737) Homosexual theme/promoting homosexualit
9、y (515) Promoting a religious viewpoint (419),Reasons, cont.,Nudity (317) Racism (267) Sex education (224) Anti-family (202),Penn Township, PA,What was burned?,Disney videos: Hercules, Pinocchio, Aladdin Ace Ventura The Lost World The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Bruce Springsteen CDs
10、Harry Potter,When is censorship justified?,Additional Reading,American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom: http:/www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ The Censorship Pages: http:/ Book Burning: http:/www.ala.org/bbooks/bookburning.html When Books Burn (Germany, 1932-39): http:/dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/burnedbooks/documents.htm,
