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

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Main Author: Saunders, Kevin Wall, 1947-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Series:Constitutional conflicts.
Subjects:
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 States.
Physical Description:viii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.