Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia
Malaysia adopts a film censorship system where a statutorily established film censorship board determine exclusion of offensive scene from a film and determine the rating of the film. There were persistent pressures to modify or revamp this censorship system but the alternative is unclear. In order...
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| author | Shuaib, Farid Sufian Islam, Md. Zahidul |
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| description | Malaysia adopts a film censorship system where a statutorily established film censorship board determine exclusion of offensive scene from a film and determine the rating of the film. There were persistent pressures to modify or revamp this censorship system but the alternative is unclear. In order to understand these pressures and consequently the kind of reform required it is pertinent to identify the pressures and to understand the demand from such pressures. This study constitutes a preliminary study of this question that relies on secondary sources to identify and understand the pressures and such sources include newspaper reports and journal articles. The research found pressures from several sectors such as economic and political. Several issues also provide the pressures such as human rights and technological advancement. The understanding of these pressures will enable a proper response and reform to be formulated. |
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| spelling | iium-427872018-05-22T03:19:45Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42787/ Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia Shuaib, Farid Sufian Islam, Md. Zahidul H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences K Law (General) Malaysia adopts a film censorship system where a statutorily established film censorship board determine exclusion of offensive scene from a film and determine the rating of the film. There were persistent pressures to modify or revamp this censorship system but the alternative is unclear. In order to understand these pressures and consequently the kind of reform required it is pertinent to identify the pressures and to understand the demand from such pressures. This study constitutes a preliminary study of this question that relies on secondary sources to identify and understand the pressures and such sources include newspaper reports and journal articles. The research found pressures from several sectors such as economic and political. Several issues also provide the pressures such as human rights and technological advancement. The understanding of these pressures will enable a proper response and reform to be formulated. 2015 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42787/1/42787.pdf Shuaib, Farid Sufian and Islam, Md. Zahidul (2015) Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia. In: Global Multidisciplinary Academic Conference 2015 (GMAC 2015), 6th-7th April 2015, Langkawi Island, Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://www.myconferenceassociates.com/index.php/conference/gmac-2015 |
| spellingShingle | H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences K Law (General) Shuaib, Farid Sufian Islam, Md. Zahidul Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia |
| title | Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia |
| title_full | Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia |
| title_short | Reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in Malaysia |
| title_sort | reviewing the pressures to reform film censorship in malaysia |
| topic | H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences K Law (General) |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/42787/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42787/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42787/1/42787.pdf |