Critical Investigation: History

• The BBFC carried out a national survey in May 2002 and got almost identical results, with over 70% of people supporting the introduction of 12A, as it is now known, provided children under 12 were accompanied by an adult and Consumer Advice was available to help them make informed decisions about what their children could watch.
• The very first official 12A rated film was The Bourne Identity.

(http://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/student-guide/bbfc-history/2000-2009)

Benefit of Bourne Identity being given the 12A are

• It took £2.15m at the box office
• This is due to the wider audience being available to institutions

Pre 2000's films which are equivalent to 12A

• Jaws: The Revenge (1987)- 12
• Batman Returns (1992)- 12 

These are film pre 2000's which would possibly have a chance to become a 12A today. The film Jaws especially was seen as a very scary film at the time.

The Film Batman Returns contains some scene which are a bit similar to the modern Batman.

 These three scenes may be ones which may be put forward as controversial scenes for a 12A.

Critical Investigation: Bibliography

The film cultures reader

Author:	Graeme Turner
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Summary:	The Film Cultures Reader brings together key writings on contemporary cinema. It focuses on film as a social and cultural practice, and on the relationship between cinema and popular culture.

Censoring Hollywood : sex and violence in film and on the cutting room floor

Author:	A Dillon-Malone
Publisher:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2011.
Summary:	"Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this volume. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency"