Forbidden reading / producer, Amanda Handy ; directed and written by Mark Johnston ; produced by Nomad Films Inc. ; produced in association with TVO [and others].

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"[T]akes a broad look at forbidden reading through examples of people willing to risk grave civil and criminal penalties in order to be heard: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who writes in hiding due to an Islamic sentence of death; Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, whose video posts of police brutali...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Empire of the word (Series)
Corporate Authors:	Nomad Films TVOntario Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) Films Media Group
Other Authors:	Manguel, Alberto Johnston, Mark Handy, Amanda
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	New York, NY : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2010], ©2010.
Series:	Empire of the word (Series)
Subjects:	Prohibited books. Censorship. Books and reading > History. Literacy > History. Documentary television programs. Educational television programs.
Genre:	Documentary television programs. Educational television programs.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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