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The Cultural Impact of British Film - BFI

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How do films create lasting cultural impact?<br />

Notoriety and Censorship<br />

‘A Clockwork Orange was in the mind<br />

<strong>of</strong> a boy aged 16 who beat an<br />

elderly tramp to death, it was alleged<br />

at Oxford Crown Court yesterday’<br />

<strong>The</strong> Times, 4 July 1973<br />

In 1996, the Glasgow Herald<br />

shared the moral outrage<br />

provoked by Trainspotting ,<br />

describing it as ‘asinine’ and<br />

‘juvenile’.<br />

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