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Bad sex and obscene undertakings: Ken Russell’s Women in Love

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
1753-6421
341-354
Williams, Linda Ruth
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Williams, Linda Ruth
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Williams, Linda Ruth (2013) Bad sex and obscene undertakings: Ken Russell’s Women in Love. The Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 6 (3), 341-354. (doi:10.1386/jafp.6.3.341_1).

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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
Keywords: censorship, british cinema in the 1960s, d.h. lawrence, ken russell, banned authors, the bbfc
Organisations: English

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Local EPrints ID: 388624
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/388624
ISSN: 1753-6421
PURE UUID: 0501cc51-fb9f-4ccf-aa33-ffce55e2cc72

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Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 22:59

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Author: Linda Ruth Williams

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