TH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lysistrata, Poetic Justice, Academic Freedom
4/10/18
Lecture 3: Theatre and Censorship
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Theatres minority status versus film and tv is compensated for by its lack of censorship
-because its not and popular thy don’t have to hide anything and less people
watching it so ability to move outskirts of appropriateness
Contextualize a Quote and Who is Sarah Kane
Daily Mail n cover a disgusting piece of filth-blasted 1995
Explosion explodes the room and falls apart
Soldier rapes guy and sucks eyes out and kills himself
War in Bosnia happened at same time as play written and awful in response of this
violence
Thing that shocks me most media more use by representations of violence than by the
violence itself
Exact same day as play premiered 15 year old girl on back page rape and killed wheres
her take play was put on the front page
Real violence that is more important than the representations
Concern is that when someone depicts someone else when its fake critics or
upset by that than real problems in world
In Contemporary culture a n d heats going on in our world and how does that affect us
Less forgiving of depictions of sexuality maybe because christian based culture
What we will see- 20 years earlier there as a law preventing these plays
Censere(latin)- to judge or to value
is to judge it as Without cultural value
Where does censory begin sensory is taught and censor ourselves from parents
thoughts and we represent the family and also we decide what we want to wear each
day
Enforced limitation of expression by a controlling group like gov or company
-we censor ourselves a lot
-taking a knee is perforative cuz fans watching what you’re doing
-cheerleaders have to answer same hard questions of taking a knee anstat do
some schools saying you can’t do that or we will kick you out
How willing would you be to join conversation of gov surveillance
As audience gets bigger the less willing we are to have an honest conversation
Close friends we are ok and smaller classes state feelings more
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BECAUSE WE ARE SELF CENTERED
Why do we self center?
Fear of judgement, ant to be accepted by our peers, social media censorship because
family and taste
1. Taste-don't want to have bad taste
2. Decency
3. Profit- lose jobs if don’t curtail certain ideas, academic freedom at cal poly
4. Fear-lose something
Soldiers are a commodity that red fro money with mocha image of money and other
thing
Someone may find this painting highly offensive if you had been in the military
Hie piece is commissioned by mocha and director never me about peace and clue flies
back and director come back and says fuck and paints the whole thing over the same
day
Commissioned work by blu is removed
Jeffrey is director and wants too be sensitive to the community and is worried some of
his donors are going to be offended by the painting
People who give money to arts boards are conservative and support military so this
would be an insult to this
Worried museum would lose funding ad censored own institution
Whole point is pushing edge of what is acceptable and also scared of losing his job
Art is censored for politics and money and rules and ethics
Ethics versus Morals
Morals- in family and growing up and things taught and intact when arrived at institution
more self
Ethics- more malleable, one of the means we are convinced to vote for same sex
marriage but moral opinions don’t need to be same as ethical and can separate, more
general
Morally aga9nt same sex but ethical these people should have the same rights as
everyone else
Have debates about what is appropriate
Origins of Ethics
Lysistrata and anti war play is judges DISLOYAL
Our country is ok of disloyalty and being critical of present and congress
Greeks found anything disloyal to state was harmful
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Can’t do it at high school is because its about sexuality
Later productions are criticized or banned for their sexuality
Women say if you go to war we aren’t gonna have sex with you anymore
This is re beginning if Theatres contentious relationship with authority
Plato's complaint is because regular people not intellectuals like himself and they
understand rep aren’t real but common people don’t understand its not real
Why so concerned ar=t keep when real shit pig on that no one's doing anything about
Violence as work and where we get obse=cen from greek
Obscene Obscene- behind the backdrop or begird the building and something we
should not see and happen offstage somewhere
Greek citizens shocked not see violence because it is harmful to them
Us pp would talk about sexuality when defining this
Ekkyklema-rolling platform of Greek, after violence happen offstage, out rolls the dead
bodies and don’t see blood just the product of ir
Why did the death happen offstage- pagan culture didn’t believe depictions of violence
was a positive thing,
theatre festivals had rules where yo coolant die,
Theatrically an hard to watch someone get killed in vain
In fits its easy and make violence look real and can’t do that on stage and greeks knew
that so it looks dumb
DEGRADES PURPOSE OF THEATRE TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO BE BETTER
CITIZENS AND WATCHING DEATH DOESN'T HELP THAT
Examples of people killing each other contradicts
Romans- most tolerant or perverse culture in world
Adopt Christianity and advocated for censorship because ether were the ones making
fun of being
Christianity was a frequent target of Satire
Jeremy Collier and Poetic Justice
Chief advocate of censorship are usually the target of making fun
The other incentive comes from POETIC JUSTICE (the person has to pay for their
wrongdoing)
In most stories where someone cheated or did something bad and breaks moral code
and get away with it, act negative to tese
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Document Summary
Because its not and popular thy don"t have to hide anything and less people. Theatres minority status versus film and tv is compensated for by its lack of censorship watching it so ability to move outskirts of appropriateness. Contextualize a quote and who is sarah kane. Daily mail n cover a disgusting piece of filth-blasted 1995. Soldier rapes guy and sucks eyes out and kills himself. War in bosnia happened at same time as play written and awful in response of this violence. Thing that shocks me most media more use by representations of violence than by the violence itself. Exact same day as play premiered 15 year old girl on back page rape and killed wheres her take play was put on the front page. Real violence that is more important than the representations. Concern is that when someone depicts someone else when its fake critics or upset by that than real problems in world.
