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Author Saunders, Kevin Wall, 1947- author

Title Violence as obscenity : limiting the media's First Amendment protection / Kevin W. Saunders
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 1996
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
Series Constitutional conflicts
Constitutional conflicts.
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed February 21, 2018)
Subject Freedom of the press -- United States.
Mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
Violence in mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States.
LC no. 95039400
ISBN 0822398923
9780822398929