CENSORSHIP, CINEMA AND SOCIETY

Censorship is often associated with a purely negative act oriented to the control over the production and circulation of works through prohibitions or limitations. This paper proposes a theoretical debate of this concept to put that conception into discussion. The starting point is the assumption of the existence of limits to the expression in any field, and the discussion of the concept of field in relation to cinematography, to observe their peculiarities and to identify their main actors. Pierre Bourdieu's definition of structural censorship suggest that this one occurs in the field of cinema itself and that can be deployed both from prohibition policies, as well as protection and promotion. Thus, the ultimate goal of censorship is not restrict speech but to promote ideas and actions in society.