Behind the Scenes at the BBFC

EDWARD LAMBERTI is Information Services Manager at the BBFC and a PhD candidate in the Film Studies departmentat King's College London.Associate Editors: Jason Green, David Hyman, Craig Lapper and Karen Myers.

• Foreword; M.Kermode .- Preface; Q.Thomas.- Introduction; E.Lamberti.- Censorship Under Siege: The BBFC in the Silent Era; S.Brown.- 'The People's Amusement': Cinemagoing and the BBFC, 1928-1948; R.James.- From The Snake Pit to the Garden of Eden: A Time of Temptation for the Board; S.Chibnall.- The Trevelyan Years: British Censorship and 1960s Cinema; T.Hargreaves .- Wake of the Flood: Key Issues in UK Censorship, 1970-1975; S.Simkin.- The Poacher Turned Gamekeeper: James Ferman and the Increasing Intervention of the Law; G.Osborn & A.Sinclair .- More Than Just a 'Nasty' Decade: Classifying the Popular in the 1980s; S.Barber .- Head-On Collisions: The BBFC in the 1990s; J.Petley'The Last Days of the Board'; R.Duval.- The Director's Commentary; D.Cooke.- On the BBFC in the Digital Age; G.Lemos, J.Carr, G.Hawthorn, S. Sedley & A.Phoenix .- Case Studies by BBFC Staff: .- Battleship Potemkin; A.McDowell.- Island of Lost Souls; K.Myers.- The Snake Pit; D.Hyman.- Caged; J.Green.- Cape Fear; D.Hyman.- Blowup; E.Lamberti.- A Clockwork Orange; K.Myers.- WR: Mysteries of the Organism; C.Lapper.- The Panic in Needle Park; M.Perkins.- Shivers; D.Hyman.- The Tin Drum; C.Lapper.- Christiane F; C.Lapper.- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; E.Lamberti.- Licence to Kill; E.Lamberti.- International Guerillas; J.Green.- Mikey; J.Green.- Ichi the Killer; M.Perkins.- Lilo & Stitch; J.Green.- 9 Songs; C.O'BrienHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; K.Myers.

This book thoughtfully presents current practices in the frame of past contexts as part of an ongoing debate about what audiences might want from 'their' classifiers.