{"product_id":"9783030521882","title":"Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDukore, Bernard F.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dukore’s style is fluid and his wit delightful. I learned a tremendous amount, as will most readers, and \u003ci\u003eBernard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eShaw and the Censors\u003c\/i\u003e will doubtless be the last word on the topic.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Michel Pharand, former editor of \u003ci\u003eSHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eBernard Shaw and the French \u003c\/i\u003e(2001). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book shows us a new side of Shaw and his complicated relationships to the powerful mechanisms of stage and screen censorship in the long twentieth century.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-          - Lauren Arrington, Professor of English, Maynooth University, Ireland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fresh view of Shaw versus stage and screen censors, this book describes Shaw as fighter and failure, whose battles against censorship – of his plays and those of others, of his works for the screen and those of others – he sometimes won but usually lost. We forget \u003ci\u003eusually\u003c\/i\u003e, because ultimately he prevailed and because his witty reports of defeats are so buoyant, they seem to describe triumphs. We think of him as a celebrity, not an outsider; as a classic, not one of the avant-garde, of which Victorians and Edwardians were intolerant; as ahead of his time, not of it, when he was called “disgusting,” “immoral\", and \"degenerate.” Yet it took over three decades and a world war before British censors permitted a public performance of \u003ci\u003eMrs Warren’s Profession\u003c\/i\u003e. We remember him as an Academy Award winner for \u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e, not as an author whose dialogue censors required deletions for showings in the United States. Scrutinizing the powerful stage and cinema censorship in Britain and America, this book focuses on one of its most notable campaigners against them in the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-10-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030521882\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-52186-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 261\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512914657420,"sku":"9783030521882","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030521882.jpg?v=1775961908","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030521882","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}