Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Down the Hole, Part 2
Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds a room of doors and something to drink, just like we all did in college.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Part 1
We cover Lewis Carroll and Alice falls down a hole into a mysterious world filled with nonsense and math problems.
Banned
1931 - China - Banned because "Animals should not use human language, and that it was disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level."
Sources
Carroll, Lewis. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass." Bantam Classic. New York, 2006.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Moby Dick Read-a-Long
New for the library is a read-a-long series of two classic books featuring commentary! We hope you had a great day!
Paths of Glory (1957)
Four men go on trial for cowardice in this Stanley Kubrick film that was not liked by anyone who thought the French Army was better than they were.
Banned
1957
Belgium - required a foreward saying it was one case and not indicative of the French military
France - banned for being "anti-military"
Germany - banned due to strained relationship with France at the time
Spain - Francisco Franco's leadership banned it for being anti-military until 1986, 11 years after Franco's death
Switzerland - banned as "subversive propaganda directed at France" until 1978
United States - banned in military establishments home and abroad for being "anti-war"
Sources
"Banned! Criterion's Forbidden Films". Criterion.com. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-01-20. Retrieved March 22, 2019 from https://web.archive.org/web/20140120212846/https://www.criterion.com/lists/170366-banned-criterion-s-forbidden-films
Kubrick, Stanley (dir.). Paths of Glory. Bryna Productions, 1957.
"Paths of Glory (1958) - Articles". TCM.com. 1957-09-18. Retrieved March 22, 2019 from http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/19285/Paths-of-Glory/articles.html
Robertson, Nan (15 March 1975). "French Delay Showing Films on Touchy Topics". New York Times, 1975. Retrived March 22, 1919 from https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/15/archives/french-delay-showing-films-on-touchy-topics.html
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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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