Brett Gary

Gebundenes Buch

Dirty Works

Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution

Beschreibung

Legal battles over the censorship of birth control, literary works, and sex education materials from the late 1920s-1950s made the laws more compatible with cultural practices and public interests in sexual matters, and created a wider marketplace of ideas about sexuality.

Autor

Brett Gary is a cultural historian and Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Gary is the author of The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War (Columbia University Press). He is a recipient of NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Steinhardt School's Teaching Excellence Award. His teaching and research interests include American cultural, legal, and political history, film and history, Hollywood film and masculinity, and censorship in American culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781503627598
• ISBN-10: 1503627594
• Artikelnr.: 60105072