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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saunders, Kevin Wall, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Persvrijheid.
Obsceniteiten.
Geweld.
Massamedia.
Pornografie
Meinungsfreiheit
Gewaltdarstellung
Violence in mass media > Law and legislation.
Obscenity (Law)
Mass media > Law and legislation.
Freedom of the press.
LAW > Military.
Liberte de la presse > États-Unis.
Freedom of the press > United States.
Obscenity (Law) > United States.
Violence in mass media > Law and legislation > United States.
Mass media > Law and legislation > United States.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The public debate over media violence
  • The social science debate on the causative effect of media violence
  • First amendment limitations
  • The concept of obscenity
  • The history of obscenity law and the development of its limitation to depictions of sex
  • The law and depictions of violence
  • Sex, violence, and first amendment policy
  • Violence and the feminist concern with pornography
  • Statutes and implications.

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