Objectionable Material

Author: Robert Cettl
Length: 21 page(s)
Written: Dec 2010
Sales Rank: - XinXii Sales Rank

Views: 758

Category: Sciences & Research » Humanities | Work: Other
Keywords: pornography, censorship, christianity, law, religion, library, ethics, information management, archive, democracy, free speech, genre, post-modernism, adult film, erotica, banned

Pornography, Censorship and the Ethics of Librarianship in a Democracy

A comprehensive report into the ethical imperatives for libraries to collect and archive so-called "objectionable material" i.e. "pornography". The report centers specifically on the compromises to library ethics enforced upon Australian institutions like ALIA as a result of specifically Christian censorial pressures and the construction of a "moral panic" surrounding the fear of child pornography as a means of preventing the free dissemination of ideas and radical, amoral aesthetics in contemporary Australia. Comprehensively referenced, Objectionable Material argues that there exists a movement in the arts and in literture centred on sexually explicit aesthetics (described as the "aesthetics of offence") which rather than its summary dismissal as "pornography" is a vibrant, legitimate means of discourse in inherent and deliberate transgression of Christian sexual morality and cultural ethics - "Transgressionism". Objectionable Material follows on from the pioneering genre analysis of such pro-sex feminists as Prof. Linda Williams and Laura Kipnis and considers "pornography" as a distinct genre, its works being texts equitable in value to any other in the post-modern "simulacrum" of competing discourses. Objectionable Material is published film scholar and ALIA member Robert Cettl's first study of adult cinema in the context of post-modern genre study and information age ethics.

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Robert Cettl
Member since: Dec 2010
Publications on XinXii: 19

Robert Cettl is a freelance author and digital publisher.

He has a BA (Hons) from the Flinders University of South Australia - which included an international student exchange scholarship to the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in the USA. In addition, he holds a GRAD DIP (Inf. Stud.) from the University of South Australia and a GRAD CERT (TESOL) from Flinders University. In 2010 he was a SAR Research Fellow at Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. He is an associate member of ALIA (Australian Library & Information Association) and an independent filmmaker.

His published works of film non-fiction for renowned Academic publisher McFarland - Serial Killer Cinema: an Analytical Filmography with an Introduction and Terrorism in American Cinema - have been collected by such as Yale University Library, the British Film Institute and the National Libraries of China and Australia. His interests are censorship history, erotic film and transgression theory. He currently balances Academic writing and social publishing as a freelance author and independent digital publisher / ebook designer branching into multi-media.