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Violence As Obscenity : Limiting the Media's First Amendment Protection /

This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected by the F...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saunders, Kevin W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [1996]
Colección:Constitutional conflicts
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Public Debate over Media Violence
  • 2 The Social Science Debate on the Causative Effect of Media Violence
  • 3 First Amendment Limitations
  • 4 The Concept of Obscenity
  • 5 The History of Obscenity Law and the Development of Its Limitation to Depictions of Sex
  • 6 The Law and Depictions of Violence
  • 7 Sex, Violence, and First Amendment Policy
  • 8 Violence and the Feminist Concern with Pornography
  • 9 Statutes and Implications
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index