Oliver Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 5188995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Catholique de Lille |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9638-2298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Role of Cultural Perceptions of Frenchness in British Film Censorship of Sexual Imagery
Critics of film censorship in the United Kingdom often claim that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is biased in favour of foreign arthouse films, especially regarding depictions of sex. This article explores that claim by examining how ideas of ‘Frenchness’ – understood in Britain as a signifier of cinematic quality and of a serious approach to eroticism – have interfaced with the censorship of sexual imagery from the BBFC’s establ…
Big Data Discourses| Aesthetics of Boundless Insight
This article explores the ways in which popular cinema contributes to the data imaginary. We engage in a close reading of key data-related scenes in Minority Report (2002), Moneyball (2011), and Snowden (2016), and we examine their extensive reliance on formal means that are deeply entangled with cinema’s capacity for scalar distortion. Using critical scholarship on the concept of scale as our interpretative lens, we argue that the distinct aesth…
Breaking conventions? Political ideology of films with explicit sex
Explicit sex in films on general release remains rare, even if it has significantly increased since the late 1990s. Commentary on explicit arthouse films has tended to focus on those also containing sexual violence, and debates have often revolved around whether explicit imagery constitutes art or pornography. Relatively little attention has been paid to explicit romantic films, and to what leads some of them to gain notable international visibil…
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Breaking conventions? Political ideology of films with explicit sex
Explicit sex in films on general release remains rare, even if it has significantly increased since the late 1990s. Commentary on explicit arthouse films has tended to focus on those also containing sexual violence, and debates have often revolved around whether explicit imagery constitutes art or pornography. Relatively little attention has been paid to explicit romantic films, and to what leads some of them to gain notable international visibil…
The Role of Cultural Perceptions of Frenchness in British Film Censorship of Sexual Imagery
Critics of film censorship in the United Kingdom often claim that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is biased in favour of foreign arthouse films, especially regarding depictions of sex. This article explores that claim by examining how ideas of ‘Frenchness’ – understood in Britain as a signifier of cinematic quality and of a serious approach to eroticism – have interfaced with the censorship of sexual imagery from the BBFC’s establ…
Big Data Discourses| Aesthetics of Boundless Insight
This article explores the ways in which popular cinema contributes to the data imaginary. We engage in a close reading of key data-related scenes in Minority Report (2002), Moneyball (2011), and Snowden (2016), and we examine their extensive reliance on formal means that are deeply entangled with cinema’s capacity for scalar distortion. Using critical scholarship on the concept of scale as our interpretative lens, we argue that the distinct aesth…
Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Big data (1 work) · Censorship (1 work) · Data Visualization and Analytics (1 work) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 work)