Question about kissing
Sarah Frederick
sfred at bu.edu
Fri Jul 16 14:11:32 EDT 2010
I was just editing something I wrote and started to wonder whether it
is true. I was suggesting that kissing in Japanese cinema in the
early 1930s would have been the object of censorship. That is a
rather vague way that I have put it but is it true in either the
sense that 1.) depiction of a kiss would have triggered some
attention and potential censorship based 2.) there were actual
guidelines about kissing that the censors followed?
I am aware of the censorship categories at the time and have looked
at a lot of print media censorship primary materials in both
political and fuzoku categories. But not much about cinema (or
kissing in particular). Is there some better research on this out
there? I think I based my statement on anecdotal materials from
people I know, and I don't think those individuals are really old or
reliable enough to base this claim on!
Thanks for any direction you might send me in! I don't have easy
access to a Japanese language library at the moment either.
Sarah
Sarah Frederick
Associate Professor of Japanese
Dept. Modern Languages
and Comparative Literature
Boston University
718 Commonwealth Avenue
402C
Boston, MA 02215
617-358-4654
sfred at bu.edu
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