Kevin W Saunders

Violence As Obscenity

Limiting the Media's First Amendment Protection

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Produktbeschreibung

""Violence as Obscenity" is a strong and provocative argument about a topic of major importance, buttressed with thorough doctrinal analysis, exhaustive historical background, and appropriate connections with a number of important arguments in the existing First Amendment literature."--Frederick Schauer, Harvard University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780822317678
• ISBN-10: 0822317672
• Artikelnr.: 21590007

Autorenporträt

Kevin W. Saunders is Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Statues and Implications
Conclusion
Notes
Index