‘The horror film to end all horror films’: 10 Rillington Place and the British Board of Film Censors’ (BBFC) shifting policy on true crime

Snelson, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-2432 (2023) ‘The horror film to end all horror films’: 10 Rillington Place and the British Board of Film Censors’ (BBFC) shifting policy on true crime. In: Adult Themes. Global Exploitation Cinemas . Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501375279

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Abstract

At the beginning of the 1970s, the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) changed its longstanding policy on refusing to certify films that portrayed real crimes and court cases that happened within the past fifty years. This shift in policy was for 10 Rilllington Place (Richard Fleischer, 1971), a British film about London serial killer John Christie and the miscarriage of justice that led to the execution of the wrong man. This move to considering each film individually was the culmination of ten years of contention between the BBFC, a variety of filmmakers wishing to make a Christie film, the television industries, and the State. This chapter argues that the protracted production histories of the unmade Christie films and 10 Rilllington Place should be understood in the context of wider political and societal debates relating to the death penalty and its abolition, and the shock of the Moors murders.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > East Anglian Film Archive Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Heritage and History
Related URLs:	https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/adult-them...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2023 12:31
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 08:20
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91494
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