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Word: censorships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fair nation. Every Presidential hopeful has their own plan on how to reform health care, social security and/or public education. Political parties are falling over themselves to provide tax cuts. Politicians everywhere raise outcries over the massacre in Littleton and propose gun-control, tougher crime laws and/or censorship of the overly-violent media as solutions...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Rising Tide Sinks Small Ships | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...problematize the Chinese experience, Zhang turns inward. His films capture modern psychological tales rather than distanced histories. However, the Fifth Generations' affinity for setting their films in the pre-Revolutionary past was more than stylistic choice-it was practical necessity. State monopoly funding of films and a wary censorship board forced any critique of the regime to be shrouded in allegory. Zhang bypassed the necessity of oblique distance by circumventing the State entirely: his second film, Beijing Bastards (1992), was the first independently financed film in post-1949 China...

Author: By Shannon May, | Title: Cinemanic -- ZHANG YUAN: A Portrait of the Young Artist | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...feel that all independent filmmakers worldwide face the same problems, or find themselves in the same situations. With regard to Chinese filmmakers like myself, there are two main problems: money, a problem shared by all filmmakers, but also censorship, which I face more heavily in China. The American independent film industry faces the same funding issues, but instead of censorship, they have to deal more with the market. Hollywood has a tendency to take over the world, in terms of market share. There are numerous Hollywood movies showing in China, many in theaters through official channels, other via pirated...

Author: By By TERI Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CINEMANIC | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Cavelier described one reaction as what he termed "self-censorship...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Reporting in Colombia | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...They receive death threats and phone calls, and in Bogota and in the rest of the country are forced to use self-censorship. But it's our role to tell things as they are and as they happen," he said...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Reporting in Colombia | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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