Friday, 25 October 2013

A2 Media: Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

1. What, for the government, did the issue of the ‘Video Nasties’, (arguably) become? 
2. What is the implicit message that comes across in the documentary about middle/upper class attitudes toward the working classes and film? 
3. How do you think this may have changed now?
4. Spanish philosopher George Santayana once famously said that, 
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“

How could you apply this to the ‘Video Nasties’ episode from recent history?