Today’s media and communications seem at odds with the idea of censorship. In a digital environment, media appear to be hardly controllable, due to their technological and spatial dimensions, opening new possibilities for a public sphere where freedom of choice and action are relocated into the hands of the user or consumer. Forms of external, top-down, corporate and/or state censorship seem to be replaced by forms of voluntary user-centered control. However, in this so-called post-disciplinary society, there is a renewed interest in traditional models of censorship. Moreover, as this talk on recent studies on film censorship will argue, we can learn a lot from why, where and how censorship emerged and operated
