In one scene of the graphic novel "The Diary of Anne Frank: The Graphic Adaptation," Anne walks among statues of naked women, and later suggests to her friends that they show each other their breasts.
That upset members of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, who claimed the book downplayed the Holocaust and - A Florida high school removed the book from its library.
Then, it was recently reported that the publisher HarperCollins has changed several Agatha Christie novels for words that have any offensive references, related to race, description of the female body or have certain adjectives that could be offensive from today's perspective.
These are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries published between 1920 and 1976, which have been or are to be published in new editions by HarperCollins.
Part has been changed. Deaths on the Nile with Hercule Poirot in which Mrs. Allerton complains of children, au Caribbean mystery with Miss Marple, the part describing the teeth of the workers at the hotel.
The title of her novel Ten little black men was renamed even earlier And not one remains.
In late March, a parent of a sixth-grader in Florida complained that his child was exposed to pornographic content when a teacher showed a picture of a statue of Michelangelo in a Renaissance art class. Davida, one of the greatest masterpieces of Western civilization.
The board of that school demanded the director's dismissal, even though at the beginning of the school year she sent parents information that the children would be shown during classes David.
These are examples of censorship of literary and other works of art from this year alone.
In Serbia, the environment is more liberal. The last case of this type of censorship was from the end of November last year, when parents in Novi Pazar demanded that the cinema of the Cultural Center there remove an animated film from its repertoire. Wonderful world Disney productions because the main character, a teenager, is in love with another boy.
Parents from Novi Pazar were supported by the movement "Dveri". It turns out that their support failed, because that week Wonderful world was the most watched film in Serbia.
S.Ć./Danas
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