Bad sex and obscene undertakings: Ken Russell’s Women in Love
Bad sex and obscene undertakings: Ken Russell’s Women in Love
This article examines how issues of fidelity and adaptation influenced the reception of Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969) and its classification by the British Board of Film Censors at a galvanizing moment in British sexual history. Through the focus of Russell’s reading of D. H. Lawrence it opens up some wider questions about the fluctuating histories of adaptation, censorship, and liberty. The files documenting the classification of Women in Love held at the BBFC tell an important censorship story from a particularly incandescent cinematic moment.
censorship, british cinema in the 1960s, d.h. lawrence, ken russell, banned authors, the bbfc
341-354
Williams, Linda Ruth
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November 2013
Williams, Linda Ruth
91aca12f-be12-40d8-a15b-b1e22d90d66b
Williams, Linda Ruth
(2013)
Bad sex and obscene undertakings: Ken Russell’s Women in Love.
The Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 6 (3), .
(doi:10.1386/jafp.6.3.341_1).
Abstract
This article examines how issues of fidelity and adaptation influenced the reception of Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969) and its classification by the British Board of Film Censors at a galvanizing moment in British sexual history. Through the focus of Russell’s reading of D. H. Lawrence it opens up some wider questions about the fluctuating histories of adaptation, censorship, and liberty. The files documenting the classification of Women in Love held at the BBFC tell an important censorship story from a particularly incandescent cinematic moment.
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Published date: November 2013
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censorship, british cinema in the 1960s, d.h. lawrence, ken russell, banned authors, the bbfc
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/388624
ISSN: 1753-6421
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