No Escape (2015)

A random white family finds themselves in the middle of an Asian coup and have to get out before they are executed.

Banned

2015 - Cambodia - "negative portrayal of local culture" caused it to be banned by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts

Sources

Dowdle, John Erick (dir.) No Escape. Weinstein Company, 2015.

"Cambodia bans screening of Hollywood movie No Escape". Aa.com.tr. 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2018 March 17 from https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/cambodia-bans-screening-of-hollywood-movie-no-escape/9618

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Rambo (2008)

Rambo is back and killing all the people in Burma to save some dumbass white people.

Banned

• 2008 - Myanmar (Burma) - negative depiction of the Burmese soldiers

Sources

Bell, Thomas (2008-02-18). "Banned Rambo film hot property in Burma". The Daily Telegraph. London.

Stallone, Sylvester (dir.) Rambo. Lionsgate, 2008.

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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

World War I Italy has a woman, cheese, alcohol, and bombs. An American ambulance driver romances, eats, drinks, and blows up.

Banned

• 1929 - Massachusetts - June 1929 issue of Scribner's magazine labeled as pornography in Boston despite sex being omitted from text as a literary device

  • Italy - banned for its accurate account of the Italian retreat from Caporetto

• 1933 - Germany - burned by the Nazi government

• 1939 - Ireland

• 1974 - Texas - Dallas Independent School District high school libraries faced challenges

• 1980 - New York - Challenged at the Vernon-Verona-Sherill School district as a "sex novel"

• Banned in Italy by the fascist government until 1948 for above (possibly due to an interview Hemingway had with Mussolini in 1923 for the Toronto Star full of scorn, calling the Italian government "the biggest bluff in Europe.")

  • In 1943, Fernanda Pivano translated the work to Italian and was arrested for the work being "anti-Italian"

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929.

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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Our librarian learns a lot about sex and relationships in this nudity sex oh wow safe search on beautiful tragedy of a true story.

Banned

• 1976 - Australia - Banned for obscenity but eventually released uncut in 2000

• 1976 - Canada - rejected by all providence except Quebec and British Columbia, eventually getting a pass in 1991 from all providence

• 1976 - Belgium - Banned for sexual content. Was the last film censored in the country and the only European country to ban this film.

• 1987 - Israel - banned for pornography

• 1991 - Portugal - Was released this year to protests, but some including Archbishop Braga D Eurico Dias Nogueria "had learned more in ten minutes of the film than his entire life."

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Pretty Baby (1978)

Our librarian goes back to the brothels of New Orleans Storyville for the story of a little girl learning to be a little girl despite growing up very fast.

Banned

1978 - Argentina - labeled by the Videla regime as "pornographic"

1978 - 1983 - South Africa - banned due to apartheid restrictions

1978-1995 - Ontario, Canada - banned by the film board but overturned in 1995

Sources

Malle, Louis (dir.) Pretty Baby. Paramount Pictures, 1978.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our librarian goes to West and East Egg to see a bunch of rich assholes try and act like humans. Mostly they all fail.

Banned

1987 - South Carolina - Challenged at the Baptist College in Charleston for "language and sexual reference in the book."

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner's Sons. New York, 1925.

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Kids (1995)

Our librarian talks sex, drugs, murder, and rock and roll as we follow a bunch of jerks around New York City.

Banned

1995 - South Africa - Banned for two years and only unbanned in 1997 on appeal with a no-under 16 age restriction.

Sources

Clark, Larry (dir.). Kids. Shining Excalibur Productions, 1995.

Detrick, Ben. "'Kids,' Then and Now." New York Times. 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2019 from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/fashion/kids-20th-anniversary-chloe-sevigny-rosario-dawson.html

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High School DxD (2012)

In a fight between angels, demons, and fallen angels stands one horny teenage jerk who keeps getting himself in trouble.

Banned

• 2014 - New Zealand - Listed as "objectionable" on the grounds that it "tends to promote and support the sexual exploitation of young persons. All of the young female characters are highly sexualised and fetishised. They are relentlessly depicted as nude or in limited sexualised clothing. Focus is made on their breasts and youthful bodies in such a way as to titillate and arouse the viewer. Their youthfulness is emphasised by the high school setting, their school uniforms and their engagement in high school activities. Episodes are separated by photo stills of the female characters sexually posing, reminiscent of adult pornographic material. The credits feature these characters performing strip tease. The scenes are constructed wholly for the sexual benefit of the viewer. The main purpose of this treatment is to reinforce the notion that young persons are sexually desirable and available. It encourages and legitimises the pursuit of young persons as viable adult sexual partners"

Sources

Office of Film and Literature Classification. "Annual Report 2014." 2014. Retrieved 2018 January 20 from https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/assets/PDFs/2014-OFLC-Annual-Report.pdf

Yanagisawa, Tetsuya (dir. et al). High School DxD. 2012.

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The Tin Drum (1979)

A young boy stops growing but keeps beating that goddamn drum. Just keeps on beating the drum and screaming.

Banned

• Originally banned in Ireland upon release, but allowed after a review

• 1980 - Ontario, Canada - banned as child pornography

• 1997 - Oklahoma - Local groups brought the case before Judge Richard Freeman. He was shown a lone scene. Under obscenty laws, all copies were seized from rental stores. Police went to people's houses who had the movie rented and demanded the copies, threatening procecution if they didnot. Michael Campfield, ACLU member, sued the police for infringing on his rights and illegal confication. In 2001, all cases were settled and the movies returned.

Sources

Schlöndorff, Volker (dir.). Tin Drum. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, 1979.

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The Outsiders by SE Hinton

Librarian ST Harker joins the Greasers in their epic battle against the Socs and people who talk in movie theaters with The Outsiders Chapters 1-3.

Banned

#38 100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999

• 1986 - Wisconsin - Challenged at South Milwaukee schools for "drugs and alcohol abuse was common" and "virtually all the characters were from broken homes."

• 1992 - Iowa - Challenged at Boone School District for smoking, drinking, and excessive violence and obsenties.

• 2000 - West Virginia - Challenged at George Washington Middle School in Eleanor due to the focus on gangs and gang fights.

Sources

ALA. "100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999." Retrieved on 2019 January 7 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/100-most-frequently-challenged-books-1990%E2%80%931999

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Hinton, S.E. (1967). The Outsiders. New York: Speak.

Hinton, S.E. "Biography." Retrieved 2019 January 7 from sehinton.com

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