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Throbbing: Hull 'The Sheik' (1919)

38 min • 6 januari 2022

How did a desert romance saturated with sex escape the censor’s attention? The novel, and later the film, were cultural phenomena: more than one cocktail recipe paid homage to The Sheik.

It is interesting that Diana reminds the Sheik of one of his thoroughbred horses Ellen Turner
Contemporary reviewers did condemn the novel for its sexual content Ellen Turner
It might be torture but it is quite nice, its exquisite Aoife Bhreatnach

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Throbbing: Hull 'The Sheik' (1919)

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Interview With A Censor feat. John Kelleher

Transparent Classification

Abject Grace: Bad Lieutenant (1992) feat. Rob Doyle

Staging violence: The Wild Bunch (1969)

A Celluloid Nasty: Peeping Tom (1960)

Anti-natal: Rosemary's Baby (1968)

The Full Gere: American Gigolo (1980)

Video Nasties (Part Two)

Video Nasties (Part One)

The Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)

Censorship by Sharpie

The Devils is not a film for everyone

Are you trying to censor me, Mrs Robinson?

(Un) Willkommen to the Cabaret

Ulster Says No, Absolutely Not

Don't mention the war

An Underground Film Scene

Blasphemy!

It Girls: Clara Bow and Mae West

Caught in the Act

Sadism: Michael Arlen, ‘Hell! Said the Duchess’ (1934)

Gritty: Richard Wright 'Black Boy' (1945)

Filthy Films: a Teaser

Libellous: what is indecency?

Teasing: Mae West 'She Done Him Wrong' (1932)

Radical: Ethel Mannin 'Confessions and Impressions' (1930)

Sensational: Roberta Cowell's Story, by herself (1954)

Intimate: Reitman 'Sister of the Road' (1937)

Dot, Dot, Dot: Anon., WAAC: the Woman's Story of the War (1930)

Gunning for you: Frank Harris 'My Life and Loves' (1922)

Skeptical: Sean O'Casey 'I Knock at the Door' (1939)

Subterfuge: Exchange and Mart magazine (1930)

Genius: Isadora Duncan 'My Life' (1927)

Propaganda: Bösche ‘Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin’ (1983)

Nudity: Health and Efficiency magazine (1933)

Seedy: Greene 'Stamboul Train' (1932)

Primitives: Macken, ‘Quench the Moon’ (1948)

Seconal Days: Valley of the Dolls (1966)

Seductive: Gibbons 'Nightingale Wood' (1938)

Thrilling: True Detective Mysteries

Lust: Maura Laverty 'Alone We Embark' (1942)

Evil Literature: languages of censorship

The Bishop and the Nightie (1966): censure in televison

Playing politics: censure in theatres

Morally healthy: censure in libraries

Indecent images: Harry Clarke and Georges Rouault

Hero Worship: Roger Casement Part 2

Enormous: Roger Casement's Diaries Part 1

Furious: O'Flaherty 'The Martyr' (1933)

Contrabrand: The Bell Magazine (1940-54)

Burning the diabolical 'News of the World'

Boycott: McNamara 'The Valley of the Squinting Windows' (1918)

Riotous: The Playboy of the Western World (1907) Part 2

Riotous: The Playboy of the Western World (1907) Part 1

Rage: O'Brien 'Girls in their Married Bliss' (1964)

Throbbing: Hull 'The Sheik' (1919)

Dreadfully Common: Maugham 'Cakes and Ale' (1930)

Blasphemy: Moore 'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' (1955)

Oh, James: Fleming 'Diamonds are Forever'

Dirty Foreigners: O'Brien 'The Lonely Girl' (1962)

Obscene knowledge: Irish Family Planning Association 'Family Planning' (1976)

Wanton: Powys 'Mr Weston's Good Wine' (1927)

Bottom wriggling: Anon 'The Memoirs of Dolly Morton' (1899)

Dirty Irish Colleens:

Squalid Glamour: Isherwood 'Goodbye to Berlin' (1939)

All Cork: O'Faoláin 'Bird Alone' (1936)

Teenage Rebel: Lessing 'Martha Quest (1952)

Revolutionary: Hansen and Jensen 'The Little Red Schoolbook' (1969)

Girls, Girls: Mead 'Coming of Age in Samoa' (1928)

All the antis: Shatter 'Laura' (1989)

Phallic: Flynn 'My Wicked, Wicked Ways' (1959)

A New Woman: Baum 'Helene' (1928)

Mollocking: Gibbon 'Cold Comfort Farm' (1932)

Fecundshite: Joyce 'Ulysses' (1922)

Unsuitable for Irish: bold books as Gaeilge

The McGahern Affair Part 2, the scandal

The McGahern Affair Part 1, the Book

Sexual Inversion: Hall 'The Well of Loneliness' (1928)