SOC303H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Holocausto Canibal, Mary Whitehouse, Graham Bright
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Lifelong process of inhering and disseminating norms, customs, values, and ideologies, these are all things that we learn from birth. The texas chainsaw massacre was a very low budget film, it gained a following, people were horrified by it as it was nothing people had ever seen, it gained a cult following. Parliament what happens after this another company go video who wanted to release. Go video writes an anonymous letter to mary whitehouse of the national viewer"s and listener"s. Association, but mary whitehouse starts a campaign that was serious to get rid of these films, and the uk press learns more about the films as mary is writing articles complaining ban video. Encourages youth to watch films press blame crime waves on video nasties. Mp graham bright introduces a private member"s bill in 1983 banning video nasties . Long title- an act to make provision for regulating the distribution of video recordings and for connected purposes .
