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Violence as obscenity : limiting the media's First Amendment protection / Kevin W. Saunders.

By: Saunders, Kevin W
Material type: TextTextSeries: Constitutional conflicts: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996Description: viii, 246 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0822317672 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822317583 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States | Violence in mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States | Obscenity (Law) -- United States | Freedom of the press -- United StatesDDC classification: 343.7309/9 | 347.30399 LOC classification: KF2750 | .S38 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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