Violence as obscenity : limiting the media's First Amendment protection /

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Author / Creator:Saunders, Kevin W.
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Description:viii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Constitutional conflicts
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2453047
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ISBN:0822317583 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822317672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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. Statues and Implications
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index