Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description

History, theory and practice of censorship

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
KF_037
Branch of Science
Media and communications
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Information and Communication Science
LQF
All Levels
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

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Preliminary Knowledge

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Learning Outcomes

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Assessment

Individual work

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Briedis, Raimonds. Teksta cenzūras īsais kurss: prozas teksts un cenzūra padomju gados Latvijā. Rīga: Latvijas Universitātes Literatūras, Folkloras un mākslas institūts, 2010.

2.

Ball, Terence. "Two Concepts of Coercion." Theory and Society 5, no. 1. 1978, 97-112.

3.

Ingram, P. G. Censorship and Free Speech: Some Philosophical Bearings. Applied Legal Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2000.

4.

Bunn, Matthew. “Reimagining Repression: New Censorship Theory and After.” History and Theory 54, no. 1. 2015, 25-44.

Additional Reading

1.

Kruks, Sergejs. “Par mūziku skaistu un melodisku!” Padomju kultūras politika, 1932–1964. Rīga: Neputns, 2008.

2.

Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978.

3.

Blum, Arlen Viktorovich. Cenzura v Sovetskom Sojuze, 1917-1991. Dokumenty. Sost.: A. V. Blum; comment.: V. G. Volovnikov. Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2004.

4.

Butler, Judith P. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997.

5.

Jansen, Sue Curry. Censorship: The Knot That Binds Power and Knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.