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‘Social hygiene pictures in the UK regions 1930-1950: exploring control, consent and the cinema space within local archival records’

This paper will examine how local council archival records can be used to explore historical attitudes to sex education, birth control, social hygiene, venereal disease, and teen pregnancy. Building on work undertaken by Annette Kuhn (1998) which focuses on how ‘social hygiene’ films were considered in the earliest days of UK cinema, this work explores material from the 1930s -1950s and identifies how local councils frequently extended their licensing powers to include control over the auditorium and the audience when films of this kind were being shown.
Period20 Jun 2023 → 22 Jun 2023
Event typeConference
LocationMontreal , Canada, QuebecShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Censorship
  • film
  • social hygiene
  • Britain