Cynthia Chris

The Indecent Screen

Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among US-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in many ways restructured the media environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813594064
• ISBN-10: 0813594065
• Artikelnr.: 52615295

Autorenporträt

CYNTHIA CHRIS is an associate professor and chair of the department of media culture at The College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and affiliated faculty in women's and gender studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author or coeditor of Watching Wildlife, Cable Visions, and Media Authorship.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Chronology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Television and
Indecency
1          A Brief History of Indecency in Media in the Twentieth Century
2          Targeting Television in the Twenty-First Century
3          Television: More or Less?
4          Bleeps and Other Obscenities
5          Who’s Afraid of Dick Smart? The Body Politic, Public Access, and
the Punitive State
Conclusion: The Future of Indecency, and Why It Matters
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index