Prurient Interests - Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945

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Summary

Exploring motion pictures, burlesque, and Broadway theater-three forms of entertainment that were regularly condemned by anti-obscenity activists in the early 1900s-Friedman shows how the struggle to define and regulate obscenity played out in New York before it was codified nationally by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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• Authors: Andrea Friedman, Andrea (Washington University in St. Lou Friedman, Andrea (Washington University in St. Louis) Friedman
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2000
• EAN: 9780231110679
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11067-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History; Trade Union Industrial Studies; Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History; Trade Union Industrial Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous