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Home » censorship

Tag: censorship

Posted inArts & Culture

Fucking Men struggles with onstage intimacy realness

by Max Maller July 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Instead, it settles for some bad fake interpretive-dance sex.

Posted inBlogs

Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood

by Patrick Friel March 23, 2018August 18, 2021

Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.

Posted inBlogs

Banned Books Week gets entertaining

by Tony Adler September 22, 2017August 18, 2021

City Lit Theater’s Books on the Chopping Block pop-up and other local events draw attention to the year’s most challenged works.

Posted inBlogs

‘Think of the Children’ tells the history of censorship in Chicago through stories and songs

by Aimee Levitt September 19, 2014August 18, 2021

And the censors did not always act in the interest of protecting the children.

Posted inBlogs

At CIFF: Of Good Report, a kamikaze exercise in shock value from South Africa

by Ben Sachs October 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Notes on another unfortunate cliche of contemporary global art cinema—and one film that avoids mediocrity by being flat-out bad

Posted inBlogs

Facebook continues its brave war on vaginas

by Sarah Nardi May 7, 2013August 19, 2021

Yet another image of the female body removed for being “pornographic”

Posted inBlogs

Iranian-born artist Ario Mashayekhi on the curious timing of the CPS ban of Persepolis

by Sarah Nardi March 26, 2013August 19, 2021

“Censorship is not something new. It happens on and on and on. For the U.S., it’s shocking. For me, it’s expected.”

Posted inBlogs

Talking to Joon Bai, the man behind the first U.S.-North Korean coproduction (part two)

by Ben Sachs March 14, 2013August 19, 2021

The second part of an interview with the writer-producer of The Other Side of the Mountain, which screened in Chicago last weekend

Posted inBlogs

Puppets versus censorship

by Ben Sachs January 19, 2012August 19, 2021

A preview of the latest feature by local video-making collective Everything Is Terrible!

Posted inBlogs

In this week’s Reader: Money talks, twice

by Tal Rosenberg December 15, 2011August 19, 2021

What’s in the December 15th, 2011 issue of the Reader

Gabriel Levinson
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Chicago Publishes unpublishes

by Deanna Isaacs December 15, 2011August 19, 2021

Chicago Publishes unpublishes part of an interview with indie publisher Gabriel Levinson

Posted inBlogs

The Dajaz1.com raid, one year later

by Miles Raymer December 9, 2011August 19, 2021

Why you should care about how the government handled a hip-hop blog bust

A Fire in My Belly
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Stoking the Fire

by Deanna Isaacs January 20, 2011August 19, 2021

A University of Chicago panel examines the Wojnarowicz controversy, censorship brouhaha at the National Portrait Gallery

Posted inBlogs

The Circle

by Ed M. Koziarski January 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Facets Cinematheque joins the international movement to free jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, with a free screening Sunday 1/16 of his 2000 film “The Circle,” about women navigating oppressive institutions.

Posted inBlogs

The Circle

by Ed M. Koziarski January 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Facets Cinematheque joins the international movement to free jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, with a free screening Sunday 1/16 of his 2000 film “The Circle,” about women navigating oppressive institutions.

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