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Cutting up Pictures

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June 1979, no. 11

Film Censorship in Australia by Ina Bertrand

University of Queensland Press, $17.95 hb, $9.95 pb, 200 pp

Cutting up Pictures

by
June 1979, no. 11

It is difficult to decide whether this well­researched book is an important addition to the media history of Australia, or whether it deserves a place among the chronicles of the country’s moral development, or even as another testament to the differences and divisions that are created by federal systems of governance. Ina Bertrand has diligently collected all the details of lust, licence and legislation that have beset the entertainment industry over the past century and a half. She painstakingly leads the reader through the reasons and ramifications behind the Acts of State and Commonwealth Parlia­ments (starting with the first Public Entertainment Act in New South Wales in 1828) by which successive attempts have been made to regulate how and what the Australian public were allowed to see.

Film Censorship in Australia

Film Censorship in Australia

by Ina Bertrand

University of Queensland Press, $17.95 hb, $9.95 pb, 200 pp

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