Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: 'Passed As Only Suitable for Exhibition to Adult Audiences: X' Anne Etienne ( University College Cork, Ireland) , Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton, UK), and Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) 1. Green Penguin Films Kim Newman (Independent Scholar) 2. The Commercial Idealism of Controversial Cinema: Raymond Stross and the Censorship of The Flesh Is Weak Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) 3. Colour, Realism and the X Certificate: Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom Sarah Street (University of Bristol, UK) 4. Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz's Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Simon Lee (Texas State University, USA) 5. Lolita , Censorship, and Controversy: The Archival Remains of the Dispute Between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley Kubrick James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 6.

Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: The Party's Over and the Pre-Swinging Set Kevin M. Flanagan ( George Mason University, USA) 7. Mediatising Modernity: Femininity in the X-Rated Swinging London Film Moya Luckett (Texas State University, USA) 8. What Are the X-Rated Secrets of the Windmill Girls? Adrian Smith (Independent Scholar) 9. The Potent Sexuality of the Middle-Aged Woman: Alice Aisgill, Karen Stone, Zee Blakeley and Ruby Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 10. Censoring Carmilla: Lesbian Vampires in Hammer Horror Claire Henry ( Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand) 11. 'The horror film to end all horror films': 10 Rillington Place and the British Board of Film Censors' Shifting Policy on True Crime Tim Snelson (University of East Anglia, UK) 12. Class and Classification: The British Board of Film Censors' Reception of Horror at the Time of the Festival of Light Benjamin Halligan ( University of Wolverhampton, UK) Contributors Index.