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THE WAYS OF CENSORSHIP > Red lights and Seizures
FILMS “PROHIBITED TO MINORS”: FROM PEOPLE’S PETITIONS AND CENSORSHIP COMMISSIONS by Franco Grattarola
NC-17 films of the Sixties and Seventies. The priggish Italian people reacted with many, often colourful petitions and moralizing campaigns. When “scandalous” works such as Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers), L’Avventura, Blow-up, or Belle de Jour appeared, censorship commissions and interventions of upright prosecutors and overzealous ministers were not long in coming. Precisely from the ashes of this refined authorial cinema, and thanks to a greater liberality on the part of censorship commissions, from the Seventies onwards movie theatres were flooded with films that evolved from erotic to pornographic.
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