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Abstract
Tim Robbins shot Cradle Will Rock (1999) after his
award winning film Dead man walking. Cradle Will
Rock is a film about the influence of politics in social
committed art. Despite its recent success, the film was
only distributed in 8 theatres in USA. Today, its an
unknown film by Hollywood standards. This case might
be defended as a current direct censorship example.
However, the aim of this paper is to use it to show that
censorship is nowadays secondary in the messages
selection. Raymond Williams, Janet Staiger but also
sociologists as Giddens show how a whole institution
point of view fits better than the censorship point of
view in our information society. Its the psychosocial
concept of normalization. Bordwell shows for example
how the current narrative model prioritizes the hero
adventure over the critical message. From script to
distribution there are so many steps in between that
its easy to ostracise a film, but these steps make also
possible to normalize a homogeneous and aseptic
narrative model. Even if its more visible, the direct
McCarthys hunting methods are today secondary.
Cradle Will Rock is only one case that makes the
censorships discourse be shown as the main danger
to political messages. However, films like Fair game
or directors as Michael Moore show that politics can
reach mainstream cinema nowadays because, as long
as the industry is able to control and make profitable
a mainstream model, an isolated message is hardly
disturbing.
Keywords: Censorship, Political cinema, Narrative,
Hollywood, Black mirror.
Bibliografia
ALTMAN, Rick. Los gneros cinematogrficos.
Traducido del ingls por Carles Roche. Barcelona: Paidos,
2000. 332p. ISBN: 8449309794.
BORDWELL, David, STAIGER, Janet, THOMPSON, Kristin.
Filmografia
Black mirror (2011). Creador: Charlie Brooker. GB.
Blood Diamond (2006). Dir. Ed Zwick, USA.
Bowling for Columbine (2002), Dir. Michael Moore,
USA.
Craddle will rock (1999), Dir. Tim Robbins, USA.
Dead man walking (1995), Dir. Tim Robbins, USA.
Erin Brockovich (2000), Dir. Steven Soderbergh,
USA.
Fair game (2010), Dir. Doug Liman, USA.
Martin (Hache) (1997), Dir. Adolfo Aristaran,
Argentina.
Comunicacin escrita dentro del proyecto FFI201233370: Fraternidad, justicia y democracia
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