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Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values

Malaysia is one of the countries in the world that practices film censorship. The prevailing film censorship laws in Malaysia not only deal with all imported films, trailers and documentaries, but they also encompass the production and exhibition of local Malay films. A Film Censorship Board was est...

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Main Authors: Wan Amizah WM,, Chang, Peng Kee, Jamaluddin Aziz,
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Published: 2009
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spelling my-ukm.journal.3052016-12-14T06:26:59Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/305/ Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values Wan Amizah WM, Chang, Peng Kee Jamaluddin Aziz, Malaysia is one of the countries in the world that practices film censorship. The prevailing film censorship laws in Malaysia not only deal with all imported films, trailers and documentaries, but they also encompass the production and exhibition of local Malay films. A Film Censorship Board was established to censor or ban films infringing any religious, cultural and moral values of the Malaysian society, prior to public viewing. This paper outlines the evolution of film censorship in Malaya/Malaysia and discusses examples of several Malay films censored or banned on the grounds contradictory to religious, cultural and moral values set by the Board. 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/305/1/1.pdf Wan Amizah WM, and Chang, Peng Kee and Jamaluddin Aziz, (2009) Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values. Jurnal Komunikasi, 25 . pp. 42-49. ISSN 0128-1496 http://www.ukm.my/jkom
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description Malaysia is one of the countries in the world that practices film censorship. The prevailing film censorship laws in Malaysia not only deal with all imported films, trailers and documentaries, but they also encompass the production and exhibition of local Malay films. A Film Censorship Board was established to censor or ban films infringing any religious, cultural and moral values of the Malaysian society, prior to public viewing. This paper outlines the evolution of film censorship in Malaya/Malaysia and discusses examples of several Malay films censored or banned on the grounds contradictory to religious, cultural and moral values set by the Board.
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author Wan Amizah WM,
Chang, Peng Kee
Jamaluddin Aziz,
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Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values
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title Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values
title_short Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values
title_full Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values
title_fullStr Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values
title_full_unstemmed Film censorship in Malaysia: sanctions of religious, cultural and moral values
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