Violence As Obscenity - Limiting the Media's First Amendment Protection

"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

List 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
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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

About the author

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

Summary

Seeks to expand the definition of obscenity to include explicit and offensive depictions of violence. This work examines the public debate on media violence, the arguments of professional and public interest groups urging governmental action, and the media and the ACLUOs desire for self-regulation.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin W. Saunders, Saunders, Kevin W Saunders, Kevin W. Saunders
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1996
• EAN: 9780822317678
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1767-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts; Constitutional Conflicts
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft, Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht