- Berger John Ways of Seeing British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books London 1972 at 10.
- Berger John (1868) LR 3 QB 360 at 371. Emphasis added.
- See discussion in St John-Stevas Norman Obscenity and the Law Seeker & Warburg London 1956 at 5–17.
- Benjamin Walter ‘The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction’ in Illuminations Fontana London 1968.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 215.
- Foucault Michel The Will to Knowledge—The History of Sexuality Volume 1 Penguin London 1979. The idea is developed in the subsequent works Foucault Michel The Use of Pleasure—The History of Sexuality Volume 2 Penguin London 1986; Foucault Michel The Care of the Self—The History of Sexuality Volume 3 Vintage New York 1988.
- See for example Barber D F Pornography and Society Charles Skilton London 1972 at 18; Robertson Geoffrey Obscenity—An Account of Censorship Laws and their Enforcement in England and Wales Weidenfeld and Nicolson London 1979 at 16.
- Lowes Dickinson G The Greek View of Life Methuen London 1896 at 15–16.
- Lowes Dickinson above note 8 at 253.
- Aristotle Poetics Penguin London 1996 [1447a13–47b29] at 3–4.
- Fox Richard G The Concept of Obscenity Law Book Company Melbourne 1967 at 1.
- Foucault above note 6 Vol 2 at 35.
- Licht Hans Sexual Life in Ancient Greece Routledge London 1932 at 223.
- Foucault above note 6 Vol 2 at 10–11.
- Hyde H Montgomery A History of Pornography Heinemann London 1964 at 36.
- Grant Michael Erotic Art in Pompeii: The Secret Collection of the National Museum of Naples Octopus Books London 1975 at 66.
- Grant above note 16 at 168.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 214–215.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 218.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 228.
- Fish Stanley Is There a Text in This Class: The Authority of Interpretative Communities Harvard University Press Cambridge 1980.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 215.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 218.
- Berger above note 1 at 9.
- R V Hicklin (1868) LR 3 QB 360 at 371.
- Cited by the prosecution in R v Penguin Books Limited [1961] Crim LR 176. See Rolph C H (ed) The Trial of Lady Chatterley: Regina v Penguin Books Limited Minderon/Penguin Sydney 1961 at 13.
- See the Charter of the Stationers' Company incorporated by Royal Decree in 1557.
- Licensing Act 1662 (UK).
- R v Curl (1727) 2 Stra 788.
- Robertson above note 7 at 16.
- Robertson above note 7 at 33.
- Customs Consolidation Act 1853 (UK).
- Obscene Publications Act 1857 (UK).
- Obscene Publications Act 1857 (UK) (1868) LR 3 QB 360.
- See generally Kendrick Walter The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modem Culture Penguin New York 1987.
- Rolph above note 26 at 201.
- R V Clayton & Halsey [1963] 1 QB 163 at 168; R v Barker [1962] 1 All ER 748.
- Hansard Parliamentary Debates 3rd Series Vol 146 25 June 1857 col 329.
- Dutton Geoffrey ‘Ladv Chatterley revisited’ in (1996) 31:8 Australian Lawyer 28.
- See for example Marcus Steven The Other Victorians—A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England Transworld London 1969 at 278.
- As above at 281–4; Barber above note 7 at 18. This dichotomy was the basis of the passionate denunciation of pornography and defence of literature by Lawrence D H in Moore H T (ed) Sex, Literature and Censorship Twayne Publishers New York 1953.
- See for example Fox above note 11 at 14–29; Webb Peter The Erotic Arts Seeker & Warburg London 1975.
- This dichotomy underpins the enormously influential work by Clark Kenneth The Nude—A Study of Ideal Art Penguin Harmondsworth 1956.
- See for example Soble Alan Pornography—Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of Sexuality Yale University Press New Haven 1986 at 8–9; Henderson Jeffrey The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy Yale University Press New Haven 1975 at 2.
- Webb above note 42.
- See for example Dutton above note 39.
- Kappeler Susanne The Pornography of Representation Polity Press Cambridge 1986 at 221.
- Mackay V Gordon & Gotch (Australiasia) Ltd [1959] VR 420.
- R v Penguin Books Limited [1961] Crim LR 176.
- This case from 1877 is discussed in St John-Stevas above note 3 at 70–74. In fact the piece was narrowly saved by a technical error in the proceedings.
- Mackay V Gordon & Gotch (1956) 99 CLR 111. The issue for the Court was whether the works were ‘objectionable’ for the purposes of the Objectionable Literature Act 1954 (Qld).
- At 118 per Dixon C J Kitto and Taylor J J.
- at 117.
- Discussed in St John-Stevas above note 3 at 98–103.
- St John-Stevas above note 3 at 83–5.
- Mackay V Gordon & Gotch [1973] AC 435.
- See the discussion of R v Gold in Robertson above note 7 at 39–40.
- R V Lindsay Unreported Birmingham Crown Court October 1974. See discussion in Robertson above note 7 at 77.
- Office of Film and Literature Classification Guidelines for the Classification of Publications OFLC Sydney 1999. See also the speech of the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Daryl Williams ‘The Big C's—Censorship or Classification’ Australian Film Institute Forum Chauvel Cinema Sydney 14 May 2001. The national scheme is administered under the National Classification Code determined under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 (Cth).
- See the Office of Film and Literature Classification press release ‘Classification of the film Romance’ 14 January 2000. On review the film was granted a R 18+ classification, see the Attorney-General press release ‘Romance: classification process works’ 31 January 2000.
- See Office of Film and Literature Classification above note 59 at 16–7.
- See for example Dworkin Andrea ‘Against the male flood: censorship, pornography, and equality’ (1985) 8 Harvard Women's Law Journal 1; MacKinnon Catherine A Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law Harvard University Press Cambridge 1987.
- Clark above note 43 at 6.
- Wilde Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray Penguin London 1949 at 4.
- Foucault above note 6 Vol 2 at 5–13.
- Transport Publishing Co Pty Ltd v The Literature Board of Review (1956) 99 CLR 111 at 117.
- Berger above note 1 at 47. Emphasis in original.
- Robertson above note 7 at 282; Wolf Naomi The Beauty Myth—How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Vintage London 1990 at 138–39.
- Hunt Lynn ‘Introduction: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500–1800’ in Hunt Lynn (ed) The Invention of Pornography—Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800 Zone Books New York 1993 9 at 41.
- MacKinnon Catherine Toward a Feminist Theory of State Harvard University Press Cambridge 1989 at 169.
- Wolf above note 68 at 133.
- See discussion in Robertson above note 7 at 15.
- Mr Justice Devlin cited by the prosecution in R v Penguin Books Ltd [1961] Crim LR 176. See Rolph above note 26 at 13.
- See Hunt Lynn ‘Pornography and the French Revolution’ in Hunt above note 69 at 301–39. See also Orford Anne ‘Liberty, equality, pornography: the bodies of women and human rights discourse’ (1994) 3 Australian Feminist Law Journal 72.
- Williams Linda Hard Core—Power; Pleasure and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible’ University of California Press Berkeley 1989 at 274.
- Marcuse Herbert The Aesthetic Dimension—Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics Macmillan London 1979 at 8.
- Benjamin above note 4 at 235.
- John Roebuck MP Hansard 12 August 1857 CXLVII at 1475.
- Wolf above note 68 at 19.
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