Censorship and Banned Music Videos [DRAFT]

 Clearly, like any real music video director, with our videos we have to be very aware of regulations that would see them banned. Though there are examples of how banning videos in fact has lead to more publicity for the band, we as media students cannot take that risk. So to help myself, I have tried to look at videos which indeed have been banned and their respective reasons, in order to have more knowledge on what content can and cannot be later included in my production. Like with any subject, the publics views on certain topics are developing, and it is very much the social context in which they are viewed that depicts the reaction to the video. So to gain further insight we will start back in the 1950's with the iconic Elvis Presley...

 Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (On Ed Sullivan Show)

*"OBSCENE" DANCING







Michael Jackson - Black Or White

*MORE "OBSCENE" DANCING
*RACISM CONTROVERSY







Frankie Goes To Hollywood - RELAX

*OVERTLY SEXUAL AND GAY CONTENT






Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls

*NUDITY






Prodigy - Smack My B***ch Up

*DRUGS/ALCHOL ABUSE/SEXUAL CONTENT/VANDALISM/NUDITY ETC. ETC.







Marilyn Manson - Coma White

*COLUMBINE MASSACRE 
*REENACTMENT OF ASSASSINATION OF JFK







Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

*GORE