2. • What year was the BBFC created?
• Name 3 of the 43 grounds of deletion.
• What was the questions that Watkins replaced the
prior guidelines with in 1948.
– 1912
– Any of the following or similar: Sex, nudity, violence,
political, military, crime, religion, etc
– Was the incident or dialogue likely to impair moral
standards of the public extenuating vice or crime or
depreciating moral standards?
Was it likely to give off offence to reasonably minded
cinema audience?
What effect would it have on children?
3. • What did the X rating mean in 1952?
• What are the age ratings that the BBFC stand by?
• Name a film that is well known in the action genre that
caused problems in 2002?
• How does the BBFC treat Big 6 films as opposed to how
the MPAA treat the Big 6 films?
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That viewers must be of 16 years old or above
U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18, R18, +18
Spider-man (as it was the first 12 rated film)
BBFC treat all equally, as the BBFC is independent. MPAA
may favour the Big 6 as they are funded by them.
4. • What is the board that rates films in the USA?
• What does the Protection of Children Act of 1978
roughly say?
• What does the Cinematography Film Animals Act of
1937 roughly say?
– MPAA
– It is illegal to posses, take or show indecent images or
videos of children.
– Illegal to show real animal cruelty in film or imagery
5. • When was the “Hays Code” created and published?
• What did the “Hays Code” contain?
• What happens to films that were given an NC-17 rating
by the MPAA?
• What was the NC-17 Rating seen as by American
Society?
– 1930
– What was appropriate and inappropriate in a film
– Generally not sold in most retailers or shown in most
cinemas
– Commercial death
6. • What was the BBFC system criticised for?
• What is the difference between the MPAA and the
BBFC rating structure?
• What is the difference between the MPAA and the
BBFC raters?
– Being too liberal and too restrictive on what is allowed to
be shown in films
– BBFC have published guidelines, reviewed frequently.
MPAA has no guidelines or precedence and are
inconsistent.
– BBFC have selected experts in related fields of child
development, psychiatry and production. MPAA selected
average people.
7. • What research has made suggestions on improving the
MPAA rating system?
• What theoretical reasons does the BBFC give for
censorship?
• What theoretical reasons does the MPAA give for
censorship?
– Barbara Wilson
– Corruption, deprivation, obscenity, harm and represent
the views of the UK society and equality act.
– Moral reasons, effects theory and cultivation theory.
